Re: (ET) [SPAM] Re: E-bay insanity

["Chapin, Tim" <tchapin bf umich edu>]

I agree it happens but a seller would want to do it to much.  eBay
collects a listing fee plus a % of the sale price.  It's not a big %.
If I was a seller, I personally wouldn't want to keeping paying over and
over in hopes I can snag someone real bad..

I am a buyer of eBay and I watch some things closely so I know what the
going rate is.  It does amaze me how much people will spend on things.

I was able to snag an electric ford ranger from a local auction a couple
of years ago and sold it out right and made very good money.  I knew 3
more would be coming up on auction so I watched factor ranger ev's sell
on eBay  for a 1 1/2 years.  I hedged my sealed bid on them to assure I
could sell them for a profit and didn't get the other 3.  The person
that did sold 1 truck for almost his cost of the 3.  Then sold the
second truck to get all the money needed to get the third one running.

EBay is a huge garage sale.  That is what makes it fun for me.

-----Original Message-----
From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of Michael S
Briggs
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:46 AM
To: Perry Cain
Cc: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: [SPAM] Re: (ET) E-bay insanity


Could just be the seller using a different username to try driving up
the 
prices to get buyers to pay more. I think that's against ebay policy,
but 
it surely happens.

Mike

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On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Perry Cain wrote:

>> "Incase you haven't noticed, there seems to be one person trying to
corner
>> the market on Elec-Trak items. He is the one who is spending upwards
of
>> $150.00for EACH manual he .... E-bay name is d... (suppressed at his 
>> request)."
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> Something tells me d... (suppressed at his request) is ebay user 
> oldphoneguy, and actually
> purchases under other usernames.  Maybe not, but d... (suppressed at his 
> request) and
oldphoneguy
> have prevented me from buying many items, regardless of the price I
have
> been willing to pay....
>
> Just takes the fun out of trying to get stuff on ebay.
>
>
>
> Perry Cain
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