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Re: You have to wonder...
« on: September 05, 2007, 03:20:03 PM »
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TjLaZer wrote:
It's fine to have a reserve on what you wish to accept for it.  But to state that is just crap.  I guess he wants to force someone to buy it than to think of it being throw away?  I don't get it.


*shrug* It's genetics. Personal observation of people over the last 40 years has me convinced that there is 2 diametrically opposed gene pools. Most of us are decended from stock that climbed gingerly out of the trees. Our friend above appears to have decended from those who fell out.

While we're bagging EBay, one of the things that amuses me is the way some people bid. For arguements sake, item "X" is worth roughly $300 and has a starting bid of $10. 7 days out from the end of the auction you'll see people bidding a dollar at a time for something that's obviously going to go for alot more than 20 dollars. When it gets too expensive, (at around $40, for example), they stop bidding. Are these people really under the illusion that they'll end up winning said item for the price of the postage? I submit that this type of bidder is also part of the "fell out of the tree and hit my head" gene pool.

Rant off.

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Re: You have to wonder...
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2007, 03:44:52 PM »
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BGary335 wrote:
I hate Ebay because more often than not the little guy doesn't have a chance.
 


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It's not just ebay. It's all auctions. Every 6 or 8 weeks a local auction house over this way has a computer auction. I've bought loads of gear over the years such as DVD servers, PCs and various other bits cheaply. If the computer auction happens to fall on the same day as the "Police And Seized" auction, the amount of people triples and most pay stupid prices for crap - just because it's an auction. I've seen secondhand 15" lcd monitors go for a higher price than a new one. People get it into their heads that because they're at an auction, everything must be cheaper than what they'd normally pay for it elsewhere.
A500 - dead
A500 - pulse detected
A500/A570/A590 ROM Switcher/Action Replay Mk III
A1200/020 18megs RAM
A1200/020/10megs RAM/scsi/CD/ZIP/1x4gig+2x2gig HD
A4000/EC030 - Work in progress
A4000/040 x 2 - Work in progress