Go go pets hamsters & accessories stock updates & discussion.

skinnyribs1949

funny.onion wrote: »

I was just adding it all up to and made it around £130 ish too!

To be fair to that seller, they did start the listing at 0.99pence but it does make you wonder if they work for a store or went in there and filled their trolley up just to resell.

There is someone on ebay at the moment selling all four hamsters with a buy it now option of £300!!! Greedy people like that leave themselves wide open to fee bombing, which I am surprised hasn't been mentioned on the ebay q & a board yet.

but theres still 5 days to go !!!!! fair play starting at 99 p tho

kaza

what does "fee bombing" on ebay mean?

obsessedwithhamsters

well lets face it, the seller would have a pretty good idea that the item would sell for more than face value and by listing it at 99p they save themselves a large starting price fee. It will probably sell for at least £300.00.

funny.onion

kaza wrote: »

what does "fee bombing" on ebay mean?

When you sell something on ebay you pay a final valuation fee based on what the item sold for.

It's 10% for private sellers I think up to £40 of a final sale if the buyer doesnt pay etc.

When a buyer doesn't pay and a dispute is raised then the buyer has the option to click that they don't want the item. Fee bombing is when they do click to say the want the item or that they've paid by cash on collection and the seller gets stitched up by having to pay the final valuation fee.

It's a nasty practice which is rarely seen but I know someone who got caught out by it a few years ago.

neverdespairgirl

lowey1975 wrote: »

Very/ Woolworths/ Additions/ Empire/ Marshallward etc are pretty much one and the same.

I've only ever heard of Woolworths out of that lot!

obsessedwithhamsters

do sellers up date their stock in the day time or is it generally first and last thing in the day?

pretzelnut

funny.onion wrote: »

When you sell something on ebay you pay a final valuation fee based on what the item sold for.

It's 10% for private sellers I think up to £40 of a final sale if the buyer doesnt pay etc.

When a buyer doesn't pay and a dispute is raised then the buyer has the option to click that they don't want the item. Fee bombing is when they do click to say the want the item or that they've paid by cash on collection and the seller gets stitched up by having to pay the final valuation fee.

It's a nasty practice which is rarely seen but I know someone who got caught out by it a few years ago.

I didnt know that! Can you can tell i dont use ebay very often.

babyfox3461

I have been all round Horsham and Crawley today, but nothing anywhere? I did find a space for them in Wilkos?

JoJoMinto

Hey all been following this a couple of days i'm on a Hamster mission too... so far I have two hamsters that I found alone in Boots :j

If you go onto ebay go go hamsters and select used some ebays have put this in wrong as they are new IYKWIM...they go for less )

good luck i'm wanting some beds now and kids will have to wait till after Xmas for others....i'm Hamster nuts here! x

funny.onion

Seeing how quickly that secondhand auction just went, it is worth keeping an eye out for more second hand 'bargains'.

It is true that some very small children only play with something once but I predict that some parents will sell used go go hamsters and accessories in return for a quick profit.

After all they can then rebuy after christmas when prices go down.