Nokia 7600 - Sold for £410 on ebay?

Anon

Just looking on ebay and noticed that a Nokia 7600 with £15 PAYG sold for £410 on ebay (even though the advert showed Buy It Now £99).

A quirk on the system? The bid history is there for all to see.

http://!!!!!!.com/4fvap

This is not a referral - it is the product that sold at that price - others have also sold at a high rate, though many seem to be around the £80 mark.

I just wondered if anyone knew why it would go for so much? How much are Nokia 7600s really worth? (apart from the price someone is willing to pay - just found on sale at http://www.mphone.co.uk/acatalog/7600_sim_free.html for £364.25!).

Anon

PS - If you are interested in what price products have sold for on ebay, find the product first, then in the yellow box titled Search Options, click on Show Only Completed Listings, then Show Items - I found it invaluable earlier this week before bidding on computer equipment as I could have paid over the odds in the bidding frenzy .

kaaloo

The answer is in your post!

Just check the history and you will note that bidders with a bit of ebay respect (ie those with good feedback) stopped bidding at £75 which is fair ebay price for the 7600 these days.

I would hazzard a guess that abdul_3g and smithh000 are both the same people. They have appalling history, comments from others who have dealt with them are:

"non paying bidder" and "WHAT A WASETER SHOULD BE KICKED OFF NO PAYER"

There is no chance the seller got his money, the bidder simply screwed his listing up for reasons only know to himself.

thefirs

This seems to be an increasing phenomenon on eBay. I got caught out by a Nigerian fraudster in October who I was initially pleased had bid up my Nokia 3100 to the top end of its expected range. He then started bombarding me with requests to accept Western Union payment and to ship to Africa. Examining the bid history I realised he had been bidding against another "member" with an African name who had joined the same day, one day before the auction finished.

Last week I sold another phone and specifically stipulated no bids from zero-feedback members, none from outside UK, yet received three bids from such sources. Another Nigerian enquired about WU, and I had to cancel bids from another.

My advice is to monitor bids like a hawk, contact any who have no track record, and if there's no credible response then cancel the bids. I know this will exclude some genuine bidders, but you risk losing eBay sellers' fees otherwise. The old rule of Caveat Emptor seems to have got turned completely on its head.

justpaper

Anon wrote:

Anon

PS - If you are interested in what price products have sold for on ebay, find the product first, then in the yellow box titled Search Options, click on Show Only Completed Listings, then Show Items - I found it invaluable earlier this week before bidding on computer equipment as I could have paid over the odds in the bidding frenzy .

ebay is a damn maze ...thats a really good tip!,

thanks

Irishorangutan

well, someone stole my 7600 a few months back, so no doubt they've made a tidy profit by now, possibly not 400 hundred but still.....