eBay sucks!

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BGary335 wrote:
I hate Ebay because more often than not the little guy doesn't have a chance. For instance, there was recently a 1200 on Ebay on which I had bid a maximum bid of $175-a fair price in my opinion. I was winning the auction up until about thirty minutes from end time when some smart aleck decided to make a ~$300 bid for it. I bid all the way up to $255, but didn't dare try to go any further so I can only assume that his max bid must've been somewhere near $300. At any rate, I don't feel as though that's a very fair price for a basic 1200 system. It had no fancy upgrades or anything, it was just a regular 1200 with a 1GB HD and OS 3.9. It wasn't even an original Commodore 1200! I would've gladly paid $175, maybe even $200 for it. But any more than that is ridiculous.

Right now I'm bidding on a n A500 hard drive which is currently at $36. I'm waiting to see that balloon, with only about a day left on it.

Learn how to bid then. Wait to the last 30 seconds to make your highest bid. If you don't win, get over it, and hope for better luck on another auction.

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@BGary335

Thanks for the slandering! So a fan isn't a fan because he/she  wants to shell out the price for the machine they want?? These so-called fans you are refering to are people like you, that moans about prices being to high because they can't get what they want for the price they want to pay. That's called a cheapskate where I come from; learn the basic economics, and burst the bubble.

@LoadWB

I agree with you, but you aren't complaining about it afterwards; others do. If there is an item I want on ebay, I set my highest bid right away. If I can get the item for the price, fine, if not I can live without it until another item is available for sale.

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@BGary335

I'm certainly not loaded with money, most other Amiga users aren't either I believe. You just have to accept the fact that supply and demand is what sets todays prices; not what people thinks stuff are worth. Some things decrease in value over time, others don't. Amigas and Amiga equipment fall into the last catagory.

There's nothing you can do about it, so learn to live with it. I hope you see the similarities to one of your first threads about getting an A500 harddrive for cheap money; it's not going to happen where you are hunting now. Your only bet to get a bargain will be at places not associated with online selling places.

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I'm just complaining about what I see as a problem and a misconception on the part of misinformed Amiga buyers.

I believe most of the people on here buys stuff from ebay; this is certainly a wise place to publish the above statement.

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BGary335 wrote:
@doc

See, your misconstruing what I'm saying. Your taking reasonable and cheap to mean the same, and they don't. I'm not looking for cheap. I'm looking for reasonable. Of course, reasonable is in the eye of the beholder, so whats reasonable to me may be cheap to you. Contrary to your statement about cheap, it IS possible to find REASONABLE deals on Ebay. But as you all said, its a matter of waiting. Trust me, I'm, not looking for bargains on Ebay. I'm well aware that there are none to be had.

I'm NOT ocmplaining about folks who buy on Ebay. I'm only ocmplaing about those who feel that spending $300+ on an Amiga 1200 is ok.

LOL, you have quite a way of twisting words doc.

I have NEVER stated that it wasn't possible to find REASONABLE deals on ebay; I have gotten a few myself.

The only problem I have here is that no matter what you say, you are complaining about folks who buy on ebay. But yet there is nothing you can do about it. Earlier in this thread you stated that it was ridiculous that someone pays more than 200 USD for an A1200; these are the exact same people preventing you from getting an A1200 for the price you want.

Don't feel bad though, if you some day in the near future decide to shell out the 300 USD it apparently takes for you to get yourself an A1200 these days, you know that in a year or so the same machine would cost you 350 USD or 400 USD, simply because the supply decrease year after year.

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On another note, I finally managed to win a hard drive for my A500!! Of course, it set me back $150, but that's still fairly reasonable.

LOL. The same person that well over a week ago stated that paying more than 100 USD for an A500 harddrive is ridicilous, now thinks that 150 USD is fairly reasonable. Isn't that ironic?

I guess that makes you a well off prick now. And you are certainly not a true Amiga fan anymore.

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You don't have to prove to me that you are a fool; I know you are :-D