eBay Low Life

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:17:56 Post Subject: eBay Low Life

So I need some basic DDR2 for a machine for my daughter to use. Nothing special, and eBay seemed the place to go. many 512MB sticks of PC2-4200 for under $40, which seemed fair to me.

So I bid on some Corsair stuff at $25... LINK. And I am immediately outbid and the bidding gets high quickly. I start looking elsewhere, as it seems fishy that the same guy is bumping up the bidding on this stuff and the price is now just too high.

Pricegrabber shows this stuff new only costs $52 and this auction was at $51, hours before it ended!

Then the good stuff happens! The seller contacts me after I am outbid, but while the auction is still running...

Them:

knight0334 · Posted: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:42:15 Post Subject:

I refuse to do the eBay thing anymore. Way too many idiots on there.

One of my other hobbies is firearms, in particular the H&R/NEF single shot rifles.. The barrels regularly sell on eBay for $30-$100 more then what I can send my receiver back to H&R for to have them fit a brand new barrel. And those who buy the eBay barrel still have to fit the lug themselves or have a smith do it for an additional fee.

eBay was once a good place to make a score, now its filled with too many retiree's and yuppies trying to earn a living.

edvallie · Posted: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:40:34 Post Subject:

he probably bought it when it was brand new and figured the price couldn't have gone down at all...and then figured he'd create a second account to bid on it and keep the price high. Nice guy.

ZhengHe2 · Rated PG-13 Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 30

What an a$$. This is precisely the reason that I refuse to buy any hardware whatsoever on ebay. You're just as likely to get a good price from somewhere like the ocforums.com anyway and there if someone acts like an a$$ they get thrown out of ever buying or selling anything onsite, but with ebay it might as well be a free for all.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 22:37:31 Post Subject:

Yeah - I did check many forums before hitting ebay, but saw nothing for basic DDR2 unfortunately.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Yup, that's how it goes...

Report it to eBay for trying to sell outside the auction.

I'll sell on ebay, but won't buy stuff there. Hell, I've sold some ram there for about $100 more than I paid for it. Some people are morons and don't look around. Most of them I think only look at retail pricing, which puts them into the moron category...

Dimensionjew · Rated NC-17 Joined: 25 Oct 2006 Posts: 108

Yea there are many on people on ebay that are really big dicks Mad

sometimes you just want to tell them to Censored

off.

jasno999 · Rated NC-17 Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 122 Location: PA

That sucks. SOme people are just like that I guess. THe thing I don't understand is if the guy wants to get a particular price for an item he issellign then he can just set his minimum sellign price at that level....

I guess it is all about tryign to get suckers to make deals cause they jsut don't know any better. It is all games and tricks. You jsut wish e-bay would be able to do somehtign about people like that.