Have Ebayers' gone mad.....

There are still bargains around on ebay, but you do have to look out for them. I bought a virtually (tiny scuff on the battery cover) immaculate 3D body a couple of weeks ago for just over £246. I genuinely expected it to go for around the £300 mark.

But in general, I do agree that there's no real sense at all on ebay a lot of the time.
 
Flash In The Pan said:
I need to get a sniper, I keep getting outbid by filterfantastic :suspect:
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Yes, he outbid me a few times too. However using a snipe doesn't necessarily prevent you being outbid, but it does help move away from the prats with auction fever.

You don't "get" one by the way, you merely use the system to place your bid with ebay a few seconds before the end of the auction. Auctionsnipe have even gone to the trouble of having their servers just down the road from ebay so that there is no delay, though I have a feeling UK auctions are probably run in Europe and auctionsnipe is in the US.
 
Gary-360 said:
You certainly don't get the big bargains anymore, it seems a case of the buyers being in a "must have" mode.
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is that situated on the human mode dial? the only ones i knew where; braindead mode; you adjust the dumbness
smart mode; you get a creative flow
auto mode; this is for the normal 9 til 5 workers with no life
:lol:
and there are a few scene modes
romantic
mourn
horny
shopaholic
retard
:lol:
there are a few more, bu where my mode dial is, its quite hard to see much.:cuckoo:
 
im now stuck in ebay/paypal limbo

i have sold my item, posted it, and its been recieved by the buyer. but due to being new to ebay selling my payment is 'on hold' with paypal. this will be released to me when the buyer gives me positive feedback (or alternatively leaves it 21days without doing anything) while currently i have had to stand the postage costs myself! i know how appaulingly slow i am at leaving feedback but obviously dont want to hastle the buyer!

could ebay be any more focused towards the buyer! and for the privilidge they've charged me nearly £25 in combined fees! *******s!
 
Flash In The Pan said:
I need to get a sniper, I keep getting outbid by filterfantastic :suspect:
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I can't remember the last time I won a bid on Ebay, the amount of times Harbour48 have just outbid me is unreal.

Oh... I did get a 52mm lens cap cheap.. they don't go for those!! ;)
 
whitewash said:
im now stuck in ebay/paypal limbo

i have sold my item, posted it, and its been recieved by the buyer. but due to being new to ebay selling my payment is 'on hold' with paypal. this will be released to me when the buyer gives me positive feedback (or alternatively leaves it 21days without doing anything) while currently i have had to stand the postage costs myself! i know how appaulingly slow i am at leaving feedback but obviously dont want to hastle the buyer!

could ebay be any more focused towards the buyer! and for the privilidge they've charged me nearly £25 in combined fees! *******s!
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I just bought a P2000 on ebay and had a message from the vendor saying Paypal had told her this.

Is this a new feature? I haven't heard of it before.

It is a bit like escrow I suppose, but I'm not sure I'd trust paypal to get it right. Their customer service is appalling (as is ebay's)
 
I've been after a 5D for the right price....after asking here, I decided 750-800 was a fair price.....Ebayers have a different idea:

£920
£805
£810
£820
£925 (one I wanted)
£869
£797(Had to do family duty and missed this...Would have paid more for the extras)
£874
£896
£930 Another I wanted
£955 and another
£720 (poor one)
£1095
£915
 
It's all about being restrained and not getting auction fever. If you reach your limit, stop. If others wish to pay over the odds more fool them.

I couple of weeks ago I picked up an absolutely mint 30D body with canon grip, boxed all extras everything for £324.00. I'd been looking for sometime and I was pleased with this, definitely as good (if not better) than I would likely find pricewise on TP.

Russ
 
trapper501 said:
I just bought a P2000 on ebay and had a message from the vendor saying Paypal had told her this.

Is this a new feature? I haven't heard of it before.

It is a bit like escrow I suppose, but I'm not sure I'd trust paypal to get it right. Their customer service is appalling (as is ebay's)
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from paypals help pages it says that if the item is over £50 and you are a new seller or have a low feedback score (i.e non as youve never sold before) they will hang onto your money and claim a few days worth of interest on it. its a bit **** as the buyer probably has no knowledge of it being 'held' so there is no onus on them to hurry up with the feeback, unless i start pestering whcih could hold things up further
 
Veracocha said:
My Sigma 10-20mm just went for £350.00. I only paid £235 for it. Long may the madness continue.
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Ridiculous, more than brand new - still, by :thinking: the time eBay and eBay-owned-PayPal take their share you'll get about £320

Now that eBay own PayPal surely they cannot force you to accept it? Conflict of interests and all that
 
Rodintee said:
It's all about being restrained and not getting auction fever. If you reach your limit, stop. If others wish to pay over the odds more fool them.
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Another good reason for sniping. you decide on the maximum you want to pay and walk away, you don't need to follow the auction, you don't need to be around when it ends.

I new I was going to be away this week so emailed the vendor to say I wouldn't be able to pay straight away if I won. I got the email on my phone saying I had won and paid for it when I got back.
 
neonpollen said:
I have been using this for years, it's free and you don't have to sign up to anything.

http://www.jbidwatcher.com/
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that one appears to need your computer to be on the internet at the time of bidding.

I wouldn't like that at all. As it happens my PC is on line 24 hours a day but I wouldn't want to rely on my computer to handle the bidding for me when I wasn't here.

It also seems to require an awful lot more knowledge of software than using auctionsnipe. (which is also free)
 
whitewash said:
from paypals help pages it says that if the item is over £50 and you are a new seller or have a low feedback score (i.e non as youve never sold before) they will hang onto your money and claim a few days worth of interest on it. its a bit **** as the buyer probably has no knowledge of it being 'held' so there is no onus on them to hurry up with the feeback, unless i start pestering whcih could hold things up further
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I've read up about it now. If you don't get any feedback they hold on to your money for 21 days just to see if the purchaser complains.
 
guilty until proven otherwise eh!


think its a bit **** personally, the buyer has recieved my item, hes told me as such and hasnt told me of any faults etc in the item, but due to the fact he hasnt left feedback (and i doubt he will until he puts it together) then i have no money yet hes got my item!
 
so suprise suprise feedback has been left by both parties ad we've each blown smoke up each others arses in the feedback, and yes you've guessed it, paypal still has my money (there site says it will clear 'imediately' once feeback has been left), ill give it until tomorrow to clear and if it hasnt then ill be sending a superdooper aggressive email to them about being useless ******s!
 
i phoned them up last night, and after shouting 'Put me through to a real person' Repeatedly at the automated message service (like really do people actually think these things work!) i got through to someone who released my funds to me.

so now im waiting for it to clear into my bank account so i can spend it (by putting it back through paypal!)
 
whitewash said:
seems people are indeed mad, do they not look at other auctions when they are bidding!
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Ahh bodes well for me when next week I list my 20D :D

Steve
 
It just means more sitting with the filter >buy it now>newly listed looking for the people who ask too little.

Missed a 16-35 with a £475 Buy it now - in the time it took me to log in, it was sold :)
 
Ric Type R said:
The first buyer didn`t pay, Re listed it and still made £690 crazy, I sold a 70-200 f4 lens it made £260, Seen them go for £400.
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I just missed one of those on a buy it now for £250, just over 12 months old.

I'm looking for a cheap IS one but I would have bought that confident that I could try it out and sell it for more.

The most amazing thing is the variation in price for the same lens. Often with the oldest/tattiest going for the most money.

OK in some cases, like the canon EF 50 1.8 MkI the older goes for more money than the MkII, but I'm talking about identical lenses. I was looking for an EF 100-400 for ages and the range of prices was remarkable.
 
I advertised a Tablet PC on here, for £600. Best offer i had via PM was significantly lower than that. I ended up getting £780 for it on ebay.

So at the moment it seems very much like a sellers market on ebay. I dont use it too much any more as a buyer as I'd rather buy something with a warranty.
 
The variation in prices is amazing. I was tracking an item and the same lens sold for over £900, £800, and just over £600. Three in total that day, with a £300 spread.

I suspect the folks who miss out at £600 bid more second time around?
 
I use Goofbay snipper, Costs me a fortune. But the thing is free.
 
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