Lucky and dumb

[PaulClements]

Some people!

I was looking at buying a Chrosziel Matte Box (805-01 I think was the model #) on eBay, it was suppose to finish on Saturday and was being sold by a guy who bought it for EUR40 from a luggage auction and had no clue what it was or what it was worth. He stopped the sale because someone put a EUR450 bid on it!

I asked him why he stopped it and he said, well it's fair, I only paid EUR40. I pointed out to him that the last one I saw on eBay went for $2200. I even offered him more, he could name his price but he wouldn't have it.

Lucky to pick up a piece of quality equipment for EUR40, dumb to stop an auction midway, surely he should realise it's only going to go up!

Perhaps he had a good reason to so perhaps I'm being unfair but man did it bug me lol. Even at EUR450 (About $600/£300) that's a bloody good bargain still... why can I never get such good bargains!!!

[Martin Drew]

I've had a few good bargains from ebay, mostly 'buy it now's. Generally though I am amazed at how much people are prepared to pay sight unseen for stuff and it always bugs me enormously when bidders push the price way over my limit and spoil my sniping plans :)

M

[PaulClements]

I'm not a big fan of eBay's I'd rather pickup a bargain at a 2nd hand shop or something, but eBay has effectively destroyed that market single handedly since most of those shops have shut up and trade through it! The other issue I have, like you say Martin is someone bidding £400 for something worth £500 4 days before the auction has finished... Why? Seriously? Why not wait till near the end before lumping that on there? The final thing I hate is the fact that I'm positive 99% of eBay users bump their own auctions to increase the sale. So many of the items I've followed seem to share an uncanny routine, furthermore eBay's now made it impossible to see the names of the bidders so checking and reporting someone is next to impossible. The whole thing is geared towards the seller not the buyer that's my biggest dissappointment.

[Martin Drew]

Of course it's great when you are selling something though.

M

[PaulClements]

... Like Red #445... "Who's that crazy fool that's just bid £30,000? Ah well go on then, £30,001"

hehe