Telling someone item is overpriced?

morganb

I was in M&S today and saw a jigsaw puzzle 78 piece for £3 ... these are being bid in excess of £10 on Ebay ... should I tell the bidders that they are paying over the odds? It upsets me when people have to spend more than necessary, especially when it's something for a child. What do people think?

aliasojo

Personally...I think you should keep out. It's not your business to interfere with another's auction.

Sorry, don't mean to sound harsh.

liz_uk

I have this moral dilemma alot !

To be honest, the buyers may not have an M&S near them, or may like the conveniene of getting the item through the post ??

I`m sure if the bidders are familiar with the puzzle, then they will know how much it costs.

When i bought my daughter a dolls house 2 xmas` ago, ToysRus locally to me did have some of the furniture sets in stock, but when I went back to buy the one I wanted, they`d sold out and wouldn`t deliver, so I had no option but to get it off ebay. I knew they cost £9.99 each and ended up paying £17.99 a set !!

juno

Buy lots, and sell them on yourself!

rdwarr

morganb wrote:

I was in M&S today and saw a jigsaw puzzle 78 piece for £3 ... these are being bid in excess of £10 on Ebay ... should I tell the bidders that they are paying over the odds? It upsets me when people have to spend more than necessary, especially when it's something for a child. What do people think?

The official answer would be that this is "auction interference" and would have you thrown off eBay if found out. Everything sold new on eBay will be cheaper somewhere else; that's how sellers make their profits (which have to be high to pay the eBay and Paypal fees).

JohnR

I agree with juno - buy loads and put them on ebay for say £7.50 - undercut them and coin in the cash!

shelly

morganb wrote:

I was in M&S today and saw a jigsaw puzzle 78 piece for £3 ... these are being bid in excess of £10 on Ebay ... should I tell the bidders that they are paying over the odds? It upsets me when people have to spend more than necessary, especially when it's something for a child. What do people think?

Personally I believe if buyers don't do research before hand that's their own look out. On the other hand like liz said, maybe they can't get to M&S or don't have a store local to them.

We had a lot of an item once which was readily available on the high street. Most of them went for double the RRP and that was without the original boxes. If people want to pay over the odds who are we to stop them?

HugoSP

I occasionally get a sale on e bay that raises my eyebrows. i put it down to the convenience factor seen by many buyers.

I once sold a load of USB cables for £2.99 postage free. A lot of them went like hot cakes. I offered same/next day posting on the condition they paid by paypal.

Although a trip to maplins would have had people paying less. Mine arrived on their doorstep within 2 days, and they didn't even have to wait in for them, because they fit through the letterbox!

Also PC World sell similar for around £13!

My neice was raising money for a school trip and was allowed to sell stuff at a school fete. She was concerned that her cakes at 5p each weren't selling, so she stuck them on at 3 for 20p. This seemed to do the trick.

Oh and in case you're wondering about the calibre of the parents/school children, it's the private school where Antony Head's children go!

H

Outtathaway

HugoSP wrote:

My neice was raising money for a school trip and was allowed to sell stuff at a school fete. She was concerned that her cakes at 5p each weren't selling, so she stuck them on at 3 for 20p. This seemed to do the trick.

I think this represents a lot of consumers to be honest. In the store where I work 14 packs of kit-kats were on offer, 2 for £3 I think, and right next to them 28 packs were £2.88, guess which one the customers went for?

Simply put, customers like to THINK that they are saving money

photome

morganb wrote:

I was in M&S today and saw a jigsaw puzzle 78 piece for £3 ... these are being bid in excess of £10 on Ebay ... should I tell the bidders that they are paying over the odds? It upsets me when people have to spend more than necessary, especially when it's something for a child. What do people think?

Keep out of it!

Dumbledore55

An item is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it!

Leave them to it - there's nothing illegal about it