bigsinky

was looking at a second hand 250Gb drive for my xbox. it was never used as the lad took the drive out of his old xbox with all his game save on it. still second hand though. i was watching it for a day or so. start price of 1p. was sitting at £49 + £3pp with about 10 minutes to go. i saw a brand new boxed drive for £57 inc pp on a buy it now but thought i might save a fiver here. anyhoo i stuck a sneaky bid on but it soon went £54 (being outbid everytime i bid on it. so i just went for the brand new, boxed, warrantied drive instead.

i check back after the auction had finished and it went for £69 Are people retarded or what. why would you pay more than £54?

davegtt

Its the auction/win mentality. People just go mental on stuff like that, lots of money to be made if you have enough fishing line

Trout

iTrader: (1)

I saw a pair of speakers sell on ebay for £300; they were £250 list price!!! Dorks!

Terminator X

iTrader: (7)

A lot of spackers don't even check what the new price is & just carry on bidding! Fool & money easily parted ...

TX.

PaulC72

I cannot believe you wanted to save a fiver over an option of brand new with warrantee against used and not comeback.

bigsinky

hey 20 of them make a 100 quid. the lad said it came straight out of his new xbox so it was just as good a brand new one. it was never used.

jono300

iTrader: (8)

Funny I never seem to attract these bidders who must win at any cost whenever I list anything on there and yep time and time again I see it when trying to buy stuff myself !!

PaulC72

Fair enough

hodgy0_2

bidnip/auction sniper solves this particular "human" problem

I am constantly amazed why anyone would bid anything on anything until the last second

alcazar

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Seen stuff for mountain bikes go for MORE, second hand, than a brand new part, exactly the same cost, delivered FREE.

The ebay idiot then paid £5 P&P too.
So over £10 more than a new part.

Crazy? Yep.
Thick buyers?
Yep, you bet!

joz8968

iTrader: (13)

Yeah, it makes me laugh when retards get "bidding frenzy". I can't quite believe it when it happens and they end up paying over the odds.

joz8968

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I always use Goofbay's Sniper with 2 secs of the auction to run. Simples.

Dingdongler

I see this all the time with hifi/av equipment. People pay more for stuff that is second hand than I could buy brand new for with a bit of haggling. Idiots.

The Zohan

Been looking on fleabay for a DS game for my daughter. New it is £24.00, they are selling for fleabay for £22.00 or so second hand - what is the point in paying nearly full price for something s/h without redress or warranty

500

I sold some lights a few weeks ago, Paid £25 delivered a couple of years ago and fitted them to my van. Sold them to someone on ebay for over £50 +P&P

JonMc

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I'm more than happy, I've stuck a load of junk on ebay thinking it would save me the petrol money it would cost to take this stuff to the tip, my 10 year old dining table and chairs is at £17 with more people watching and my daughter's old kitchen set has 29 watchers

joz8968

iTrader: (13)

It's amazing isn't it.

One man's trash is another man's gold.

Jamz3k

Just sold the screen from my broken laptop for £51 including delivery. Brand new version of the same screen on ebay was £55! Some people are just stupid.

English ebay sellers who think they can rip us Norn Irish off for postage just pisses me off too.

Jamescsti

I was bidding on a baby monitor today, the seller has a number of the same item, some for £25 + £5 postage on buy it now and others on auction with free postage, the ones I bid on today I bid upto £29.50, clearly any more and it was pointless, anyway I got outbid and the bidding went upto £35! I think some people get tunnel vision with the auctions.

Turbohot

Yep! "In it to win it! Innit? " mentality. It is crazy to pay over the odds on Ebay, but as you say, some thrive on this sort of competitive b!tchfight for not so meaningful commodities. A Winner and a loser at the same time; buy one, get one free.