I hate ebay

[Raduque]

I want things for cheap, but it seems everybody else wants to pay over retail for them. Why are people so stupid?

 

[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?

I don't know, I just don't know.

 

[KarmaPolice]

cause its ebay!

 

[RedArmy]

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?

I don't know, I just don't know.

Well good thing I do know then, otherwise we may have had a problem.

 

[Flyback]

Stop complaining and start profiting if that is the case.

 

[Luthien]

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.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: Flyback
Stop complaining and start profiting if that is the case.

If I had anything worth selling, I would :/

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: KarmaPolice
cause its ebay!

Yep, the auction mentality.

 

[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.

 

[BKLounger]

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.

 

[Spineshank]

Ive been landing good deals on ebay lately actually.

 

[waggy]

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

 

[Aikouka]

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!

 

[MercenaryForHire]

I have a few 300GB HDDs ... lying around collecting dust

Price per unit shipped to Canada?

- M4H

 

[zoiks]

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.

 

[Fritzo]

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?

I don't know, I just don't know.

Because in the end, they feel they've won. It's a psychological thing.

 

[rstove02]

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.

 

[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.

 

[superHARD]

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.

You understand that bidding before the last 1 min of the auction is not very smart?

 

[robphelan]

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.

yeah... i only to there for vintage cufflinks now. long gone are the days where you could find exceptional deals there.

 

[PingSpike]

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.