Make sure you get an Ebay bargain

isayoldchap

I thought I would share this with you all.
Some of you may want to buy the special promotional PG tips box with the free Wallace and Grommet Cup in the supermarkets for £2.66 at Sainsburys.

On Ebay this afternoon and still bidding £11.49.Be quick you only have a few hours left.Oh and the postage is only £5.Bargain...who's the mug???????

How about the 4 dvd collection of Hammer House of Horror(2002)just £17.99
at dvd.co.uk(go through a cashback website )for more money off.They also do free delivery.
On ebay recently went for over £25 plus postage.Spooky........

Go on go and get ripped off without searching.

soolin

Sorry i can't agree that anyone is being ripped off. There are dozens of people on the grabbit board and Scotland board who want PG mugs, but have had none locally to them at all. maybe other people are in the same boat and are happy to pay £11+ for them, but that is their choice. Alternatively they can pay out on a train fare to go to Cheshire (I think it was Chesire) where someone said the shops had them.

Likewise, you know that the Hammer house of Horror box sets are available elsewhere, but if people want to buy them on ebay then why not?

Last Christmas I bought a book with a cover price showing of £12.99, and I paid in excess of £90 for it, I don't think I was ripped off though as I had wanted that book as a gift for many years and was pleased to have finally got it.

Ebay is an auction site, you see what you are bidding, you can see the extras like post and packing are before you bid and you make your own mind up. If you don't like the price then walk away, if something is well overpriced it won't sell and that hits sellers where it hurts. No one forces anyone to bid

Incidentally the Grmit mug that went for £11.51 had a start price of 1p...and if you look the current price of those mugs is nearer £4-£5 now.

Soo

cougar_3

You always get pepole winging about postage and packaging, ut you do need to take it into account, just like if you buy at ebuyer or anywhere else!

shelly

I totally agree with Soolin. I get fed up with people saying buyers are getting ripped off on e-bay. If people can't be bothered to do research before hand then thats their own fault. OR like Soolin says not everything is readily available to everyone so people don't mind paying more than RRP (or more than items cost in first place) to get an item.

A while ago hubby was selling some items that were readily available on the high street and some buyers paid double the RRP. Did they get ripped off ? Of course not....either they didn't research or didn't care.

Edinburghlass_2

In fact the Wallace and Gromit mugs are now appearing in Scotland. Although PG Tips aren't sending them into Scotland as they sell their tea here under a different name, the major supermarkets are sending them to the Scottish stores

OllieLong

I was quite surprised to sell a used DVD for £8.70 when you could buy it new for about £6, the buyer obviously didn't do their research or didn't care and they gave me positive feedback.

Hermia

I've sold quite a few things at more than RRP (sometimes considerably more than RRP). I had put low starting bids on the items to reflect the market value. If people want to bid a lot more for whatever reason that's okay by me!

I teach beginner's IT classes as part of my job and there are two things I have learnt. 1 - it would not occur to a lot of people to research prices and a lot wouldn't even know how.
2 - some people are very naive indeed.

I get a lot of people saying they want to get onto ebay and I just look at them and think, "oh God!".

bleugh

Supply and demand my friend...........................



I've only one can of beans, in a room, full of 100's of starving weight watcher members

Lock em in long enough and They'll pay a small fortune for those beans


Conversley


I've a pallet of 1000 tins of beans, and a room full of anorexic people, with no lock on the door.

those beans aren't going to sell well no matter how hard you try to shift em



...................beans, sellers on ebay have got them, buyers on ebay want them

Contains_Mild_Peril

shelly wrote:

I totally agree with Soolin. I get fed up with people saying buyers are getting ripped off on e-bay. If people can't be bothered to do research before hand then thats their own fault. OR like Soolin says not everything is readily available to everyone so people don't mind paying more than RRP (or more than items cost in first place) to get an item.

A while ago hubby was selling some items that were readily available on the high street and some buyers paid double the RRP. Did they get ripped off ? Of course not....either they didn't research or didn't care.

Sometimes, buyers of "overpriced" items live in remote areas, and don't visit the high streets of major towns often. The sellers who usually start the bidding at a fair price are not to blame if buyers pay unexpectedly high amounts! It takes at least 2 bidders to send a price sky high. I've sometimes been pleasantly surprised at the prices my items have made at auction, but on other occasions, the price has disappointed me (sometimes only 1 bid). You win some, you lose some.
As for the PG Tips mugs, I'll wait a year or two, then I'd be willing to bet they'll be available at my local car boot sale for 50p!