I Don't Understand EBay'ers??

[whattaguy]

Originally posted by: marvdmartian
Yeah, people for the most part are dumb. It's not their fault, it's genetics and surroundings, and now they've become so good at it that it would be foolish for them to be anything else.

What kills me, too, is the atrocious shipping that sellers charge on ebay. $18 to ship a hard drive??? Okay, maybe if the guy was shipping it to me here in the USA, and he was in upper Mongolia, I could see it. But even if they have to go out and buy the box and packing materials, then ship it, there's NO WAY they're gonna spend $18, short of shipping it 2 day or overnight. :disgust:

There have been plenty of deals that I've seen, where the price on the item (even the buy it now price) is good, but they make up for a good deal with high shipping.......and I've passed every one of them by, for that reason alone.

Luckily, there's still good deals to be found. Like the other day, when I picked up a retail XP2500+ cpu for $78 shipped. Lowest price I found on pricewatch was somewhere in the vicinity of $100.

The high shipping is to cover the Paypal/Ebay fees. I agree, though, it's dumb.

 

[Ranger X]

Originally posted by: Uppsala9496
People are dumb.

eBay has some of the DUMBEST people frequent the site. People often bid without even reading the product description -- which is why they often pay $$$ for auctions with information instead of for the product.

I once had someone pay close to retail for a broken motherboard that I clearly stated in the product description. Of course, I didn't state it in the title but hey, I don't see a problem with taking advantage of the stupid. :evil:

 

[jlee]

Heh..I remember seeing a Kyro card go for 25 bucks plus $50 shipping..they were on Newegg for $48 at the time.

 

[Baked]

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