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I hate ebay

Raduque

Raduque

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I want things for cheap, but it seems everybody else wants to pay over retail for them. Why are people so stupid?
 
Originally posted by: Raduque
I want things for cheap, but it seems everybody else wants to pay over retail for them. Why are people so stupid?
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I don't know, I just don't know.
 
Originally posted by: Darthvoy
Originally posted by: Raduque
I want things for cheap, but it seems everybody else wants to pay over retail for them. Why are people so stupid?
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I don't know, I just don't know.
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Well good thing I do know then, otherwise we may have had a problem.

 
People get carried away with bidding and a lot of sellers shill bid if they see the price lower than they expected. So, it is not really that easy to get a great deal.
 
I've been trying to buy a certain hard drive on there for the past few weeks so I can upgrade my RAID array. But closing bids for these things have been $70-$90. For a 300GB hard drive?!? These people are idiots. I've just been putting my $50 bid in and if I win great if not I'll bid on the next one.
 
idiots get caught up in the auction mentality. This is why i believe put in the bid you want to pay if you don't win. Oh well. It's ebay there will be another one on there in 10 minutes.
 
heh complaining that a 300gb hard drive is between 70-90 . i need to get a few more drives LOL. heh i remember when they were $1 a gb
 
300GB HDDs.. that makes me feel like a nerd, because I have a few 300GB HDDs (averaging that size, they're between 250 and 320) lying around collecting dust :Q!
 
Depends. I got most of my stuff at a good price on ebay. Latest purchase was a Humminbird 383c GPS/Fishfinder for my kayak. Got it brand new at 299 including shipping whereas its around 450 everywhere else.
 
Originally posted by: Darthvoy
Originally posted by: Raduque
I want things for cheap, but it seems everybody else wants to pay over retail for them. Why are people so stupid?
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I don't know, I just don't know.
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Because in the end, they feel they've won. It's a psychological thing.
 
It gets pretty bad sometimes on ebay. On one occasion when I was outbid on an item twice in a row by another member, I received a private message from the guy that outbid me that was basically taunting me that no matter how high I bid that he would outbid me.

The item was brand new, but out of print. After searching around I found one retail place online that still had the item in stock. Went back to ebay and made a bid of the retail price which once again was quickly outbid (by 10%) by the same guy followed by another taunting message.

Responded to him with a message containing the link to the online retail store and that I just bought the item from them and would have it at my doorstep in 24 hours, while he just bid 10% over retail and still has to wait 5 more days for the auction to end before it would even be shipped. He responded that he would not bid anymore if I was to outbid him again, which of course I did not (would of been bout 15% over retail then).

It could of been a honest guy that just got caught up on the bidding frenzy, or it could of been a "friend" of the seller that was just trying to artificially inflate the auction price...who knows.
 
I gave up ebay a long time ago. Everything I bid on ends up selling for retail or more, or it's a scam. I spent months looking for a tractor on ebay, every evening I'd look through the listings and report many of them as fraud. The few used machines I was interested in sold for more than what the local dealer wanted.



 
Originally posted by: ryan256
I've been trying to buy a certain hard drive on there for the past few weeks so I can upgrade my RAID array. But closing bids for these things have been $70-$90. For a 300GB hard drive?!? These people are idiots. I've just been putting my $50 bid in and if I win great if not I'll bid on the next one.
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You understand that bidding before the last 1 min of the auction is not very smart?
 
Originally posted by: Greenman
I gave up ebay a long time ago. Everything I bid on ends up selling for retail or more, or it's a scam. I spent months looking for a tractor on ebay, every evening I'd look through the listings and report many of them as fraud. The few used machines I was interested in sold for more than what the local dealer wanted.
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yeah... i only to there for vintage cufflinks now. long gone are the days where you could find exceptional deals there.
 
I haven't bought anything on ebay in years. I haven't even looked for a year. It all costs more then retail. It just doesn't make any sense...the ebay sellers are slower, have worse service, a higher chance of screwing me AND cost more? And thats without the "used stuff is worth the same as new stuff mentality that you get when buying used stuff everywhere.
 
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