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In Reply to: How we Ebay posted by Bambi B on October 1, 2004 at 10:21:27:
The buyers' "weapons" on Ebay are flimsy namely, sniping, or backoff(not recommended) against sellers' weapons of shill bids, high reserved price, withdrawal plus add-on cost, non-shipping.So, don't try to fool yourself by saying that you're an experienced bidder and be able to buy something cheap with good confidence.Irrespective what bidding strategy you can think of, Ebay is not a fair game to buyer(sorry, the rules are fixed) except on a few rare occasions, some sellers put the items on buy-it-now with lower prices. I don't know why and there should be no point to sell good stuff cheap, or are they so badly in need of money by a few days?
Maybe one out of 20 buy-it-now occasions, you can buy it cheap, seldom on bidding race. I bought a quad of metal base EL 34 at $100 and a quad GZ 32(British) at $50.
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Follow Ups
- Re: How we Ebay - koo 18:31:34 10/01/04 (12)
- Ebay should require explicit shipping rate in the auction page (NT) - 6SJ7 18:53:50 10/01/04 (10)
- as long as they list it somewhere... - chris e. 00:05:17 10/02/04 (0)
- Nonsensical suggestion when you consider those outside US. - Mark Kelly 19:34:59 10/01/04 (8)
- there are US sellers charging USD9 for shipping 4 EL84, some charge USD28(nt) - 6SJ7 19:41:35 10/01/04 (0)
- Say USD10 for USPS airmail letter post up to four small signal tubes, not that hard(NT) - 6SJ7 19:39:43 10/01/04 (2)
- Re: Say USD10 for USPS airmail letter post up to four small signal tubes, not that hard(NT) - Jimmy 13:07:03 10/02/04 (1)
- Re: Say USD10 for USPS airmail letter post up to four small signal tubes, not that hard(NT) - SmoKeTest 22:19:34 10/04/04 (0)
- there are sellers having standardised rate for "rest of thw world" (outside USA) - 6SJ7 19:37:25 10/01/04 (3)
- USA postal rates can be calculated online - grinagog 21:43:27 10/01/04 (2)
- and also the hidden packing and handling fees? - 6SJ7 22:43:45 10/01/04 (1)
- well now....... - Sector-7G 04:32:06 10/02/04 (0)
- I bought a quad of metal base EL 34 at $100 and a quad GZ 32(British) at $50... - 6SJ7 18:50:58 10/01/04 (0)