Ripoffs on Ebay

Dec 30, 2003 1 Replies

Is it just me, or are there a lot of rip-off merchants on Ebay?



Take this:

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two hingepin kits, starting bid £7.99



Cost from "a well known landrover supplier" £3.99



or This:



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"spire nuts", those things that go under the floor panels for the Acme screws.


20 off, £4.99

I can't remember how much they were last time I got them, but I buy the nuts and screws together, in quantities of 50, and I don't think it even cost me a fiver. I think they'd laugh if I asked for just



20....

Yet the last couple of bits I put on there, starting at £20, would cost you about £170 to buy, didn't even attract bids.



Strange...



Alex


|| Is it just me, or are there a lot of rip-off merchants on Ebay? ||

No, just some idiot bidders. And yes, there are.

|| || Yet the last couple of bits I put on there, starting at £20, would || cost you about £170 to buy, didn't even attract bids. ||

Just goes to show there's "one born every minute". I recently bid up to 12 quid on an old Steeleye Span CD I thought was out of print. Luckily, I decided to check on hmv.co.uk before I went further. Got the CD delivered to my house for under a tenner from HMV before the auction ended. It finally went for about £17. Caveat emptor, as always. Bad luck not selling your stuff, but I've found you can fail to get a single bid, then put the same item with the same description back on eBay a week later and get lots of interest. I continue to use eBay as it always get me more interest than an ad in the local paper, and it's far cheaper.

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