Have Ebayers' gone mad.....

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Many ebayers are mad :).

I bought a saxophone for my son from a music shop in Brighton & each week they'd put one up for auction, starting price 50p

Every week it would go for more than the buy-now price :shrug:
 
Ebayers gone mad? The entire world has gone mad..
 
People automatically assume that eBay have the cheapest prices, which means people get in to a bidding war and pay more than you can buy it from Play/Amazon/Ebuyer/wherever.

I've seen it happen ALOT over the last few weeks.

For example I was watching a brand new Extreme III 4Gb compact flash that the seller bought in error. New they can be had for around £20 posted so I thought I'd go £14 inc.

It ended up going for £24 + £3 postage. :cuckoo:
 
2Thumbs said:
People automatically assume that eBay have the cheapest prices, which means people get in to a bidding war and pay more than you can buy it from Play/Amazon/Ebuyer/wherever.

I've seen it happen ALOT over the last few weeks.

For example I was watching a brand new Extreme III 4Gb compact flash that the seller bought in error. New they can be had for around £20 posted so I thought I'd go £14 inc.

It ended up going for £24 + £3 postage. :cuckoo:
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In fact Play.com do them for £15 delivered. ;)
 
mrgubby said:
Many ebayers are mad :).

I bought a saxophone for my son from a music shop in Brighton & each week they'd put one up for auction, starting price 50p

Every week it would go for more than the buy-now price :shrug:
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I see that often and do wonder how stupid these bidder must be.
 
canon 450d one went for well over £400 on fleabay my local shop £382 bonkers
 
The refurbished 450d's on the Canon outlet store on ebay tend to go for over or very close to the 'new' price from memory. The world is mad!
 
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It's mental what people will pay for things. I go on an angling forum and one of the regulars is a guy who makes his own floats. A few top angles have begun to use his handmade floats but now on ebay his floats are going for about four or five times what they're worth - people are buying them bulk then selling them on.
I saw eight floats, normal RRP about £2, go for over £80 - over a tenner each. They're good floats but that's just madness!!!!
It's amazing how little people pay attention tot heir budget!!! :)
 
I put a laptop on there with a buy it now price of £550 twoweeks ago. It went for £760 in the end.

Who am I to complain :D:D
 
It's bidding fever, I was on a country run once and came across a village auction.
Went in and ended up bidding for an item that was worth £2 me and this other bloke got to a fiver before he saw sense and dropped out, :D:D:D

Ha!!, beat him .....got outside and kicked myself :bonk:

It was probably his anyway and was bumping up the price to us townie bumpkins :thinking::bang::bang:
 
A fair few things that go for over the market price are found relisted later, I have had several second chance offers recently where I have bid on things at the price I think is right for them but lost to 1 or 2 other people.
I'm not sure if the seller has other user names, or uses friends to bid things up, but if you stick to your price you do eventually win what you want.
Patience is required in large amounts though :lol:
 
susie said:
A fair few things that go for over the market price are found relisted later, I have had several second chance offers recently where I have bid on things at the price I think is right for them but lost to 1 or 2 other people.
I'm not sure if the seller has other user names, or uses friends to bid things up, but if you stick to your price you do eventually win what you want.
Patience is required in large amounts though :lol:
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I often wondered about that.

Several months ago I was bidding on something, and it sold for about £150 more than it should have done - within minutes the buyers and sellers has left feedback for each other "Thanks!!" and I was Second Chanced as he "has a spare"

I reported them for Shilling instead - the "buyer" was NARU'd shortly after ;):)

Didn't take up the Second Chance on principle.
 
When I contacted the sellers to check why the offers 2 of the items were won by someone who wanted to pay by western union and wanted shipping to somewhere like Nigeria!
No feedback was left by the buyers or sellers on them, and the so called buyers are now not registered though so I probably got lucky with the ones I got.

Edited to add: The bids I put in were at least a couple of hundred less than others were selling for, so I was being a bit cheeky with my valuations :)
 
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Never risk more than £20-£30 on there, i dont trust it...

Although i did kit the car out with a Dvd player, front screen
and a flip down rear screen and the lot didnt come to more
than £120 including postage, all brand new...
 
the other thing people do is over bid on similar items they are saying - for example if selling a 10-22mm and there is "competition" - they create false acounnt or get friends to bid it higher, thus making theirs look more atractive.

If one is sitting at 3days £300 and one at £550 - which one are you going to watch ;)
 
Flea bay becomes less credable every week and those who have used it over many years are becomming very disalusioned with it.

I regularly watch certain areas that I have knowledge of and over a period of time you can see the paterns of underneath dealings. :suspect: Bidding up is comon place, along with several user names, same person.

Trouble is flea bay really couldn't care less, the more the price goes up the more they make

Moan over :bang:
 
Thats great, mine will be on there in a few weeks, let the prices stay high :lol:
 
I've bought a fair bit of camera gear on there recently at very good prices but you have to let a lot of items go because they are too much then pick your moment to go for something.

I always snipe so as not to push up the prices artificially. I've seen quite a few items sell for more secondhand than I could have bought new. I've also seen older items sell for more than recent ones still in warranty.

My best deal was a 40D body only, never been used, for £375. That's £450 buy it now (I offered that to the guy when it was on open auction and the bid was at £250)

I had a 10% off voucher from Ebay that was about to expire, which is why I got him to finish the auction early by changing to buy it now, and then I went halves with him on the £60 cash back.

He had only got the camera 3 days before I bought it as a bonus payment from work, he had kept the lens from the kit and sold the body on.

You need to take your time with ebay, do your research and use a snipe program to do the buying.

Prices on here seem to be cheaper than you might get on ebay, but what you want might not be available when you want it.
 
My Sigma 10-20mm just went for £350.00. I only paid £235 for it. Long may the madness continue.
 
trapper501 said:
You need to take your time with ebay, do your research and use a snipe program to do the buying.
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Which one - I used to use auctionsniper - is there something better now?
 
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