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HAVE PEOPLE GONE MENTAL
Trigger:
Paul, You are never going to let that 99p deal go. It has been a year now. Still waiting for my 99p brake lines from your CB650 ;)
tom400f:
--- Quote from: paul gledhill on September 25, 2014, 08:21:54 AM ---Why does it need to be 40% more all I want to do is make sure the price is fair (trigger and his 99p bargains ;)
Seems fair to me but not to eBay !!
--- End quote ---
Ebay is very aggressive for its revenues. Its wording is very dubious to me (you surely do not have a binding contract when you win an internet auction) and if you want to close your account you have to wait 6 months "to ensure there are no revenues due to us"). If something goes wrong (eg your account gets hacked - because they lost their entire database as it turns out) they are not interested - "we are just a venue".
They make the widest inventory available to the widest audience, which is a good thing, and ultimate market forces are brought to bear. Ok. But in other ways they are quite shitty.
bike-pusher:
Paul - so why didn't you set a reserve price instead?
Tom - there's a lot to criticise about eBay, but I find that as a business seller, if you play the game fairly, they're damn good.
paul G:
Trigger you have not sent the 99p yet ;)
Still trying to get my hands on some of this cheap Tesco oil but non of my local stores stock it.
I have had some great deals with eBay but the policy on 40% higher is stupid all I want is a good fare price !!
bike-pusher:
I'm quite happy to give stuff away - a lot of my regular customers find 'extras' popped into their parcels from time to time.
The value of something is what someone's prepared to pay for it. When you're into intangibles, like what it's "worth" to get something "right", as you see it, all bets are off.
What pisses me off is people flogging shit i n a deceitful manner. Like the twonk who tried to sell me that cb125 engine recently - only the right-hand side (badly) photographed, so you didn't see the total absence of left-hand engine casing, stator, alternator, points (not to mention the mullered crankshaft end) until you got there. And it wasn't a CB125 engine anyway.
He even got snotty because I left neutral feedback. He deserved a neg.
There are just too many people trying to con would-be restorers and starry-eyed fifty-somethings who want to recapture their salad days.
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