Ebay fun

[justthatgood]

Woohoo, that's eBay for you!!!!

HeeHee.  Reminds me of the time back in 2000 that I picked me up a little PowerMac 7100, and the local computer shop said it was going to be like $300 for a motherboard.  I looked at the guy and trucked my butt to eBay. :lol:  I had one guy that was going to charge me like $160 one, and then I found someone selling one for $13 with shipping.

But I guess if someone is going to buy something, keep pitching coins into that wishing well.

[justthatgood]

No eBay Uninversity has a special class in buying a company that has one of the worse payment systems in the world, terrible customer service and all.

Also they have those classes in how to jack up royalties and fees for auctions, as if they aren't going to get enough money off the auctions already. Seriously, does it really cost that much bandwidth to have an auction heading in bold.

I think the prices go back to what I've said before.  About people playing in the emotions of the Amiga user base.  Quite a few people a very very religious when it comes to their Amiga stuff.  I'm okay with some dealers that have good quality stuff and would be able to give some warranty, then a little bit of a higher price would be okay,  but come on.

[justthatgood]

@Jax

Hey, I can't hate on people.  I'm all for people getting the most out of their hardware (finacially or performance wise.)

Personally myself, I wouldn't have prices that high, because you have to pay so much to eBay in regards to there extortion like listing fees. I normally listed stuff to sell. Stuff don't make money sitting in a box.  Other then that I'm just making idle chat, because I have no job and am bored.

[justthatgood]

@mdivancic

Each time, the "Buy It Now" price gets higher to cover the shipping, handling, and the money lost buy the listing price.    As I said, unless you are very very sure you are going to sell something and/or it's very valuble(rare) don't list high.

[justthatgood]

Maybe he's buying them from himself so it appears that the price isnt inflated when people go out to check what the general going price is on the hardware... Seems like a waste of time to me for just one item though...

That's just insane though.  Because according to a lot of rules and stuff from the Federal Trade Commission, shill bidding is construed as felony actions.  Yeah, it is theft, because other bidders wouldn't have had to pay the price they did because the "ghost" bidder wouldn't have exisited.