Why people on Ebay are stupid...

[Red96TA]

Real story happening right now on ebay...

I have two identical instructional dvd's for sale on ebay. Both videos have a starting bid of $5.00 with a 'buy-it-now' price of $20.

Right now, one video has NO bids and NO 'buy-it-nows'....the other video is at $41...

I must be missing something!!! hahahaha....they could have bought the video outright for $21 bucks less. I guess they didn't want to scroll down 6 items!!!

I'll still take their money though... 8)

[samdha14]

lol WOW!!!

[pacmania_2001]

I think you'll find most eBay users are stupid. I once sold a link to a website for $15 albeit with some fake inflationary bidding by yours truly.

[tgpo]

I think you'll find most eBay users are stupid. I once sold a link to a website for $15 albeit with some fake inflationary bidding by yours truly.

Explain that again.

[indolikaa]

I've bought a lot of software on eBay and half.com. Once I purchased a game that was suppose to be NIB (that's all I ever buy) and it arrived as a CD-R in a sleeve.

Now don't get me wrong. Am I going to stand here and profess that I've never CD-Rd that favorite game or album? Hardly. But if all I wanted was a CD-R copy I could just as easily done the legwork myself. No, I wanted the box, the artwork, the manuals, the whole enchilada.

What I got for my $27.00 was a silver-topped CD-R in a paper sleeve with 'Zoos' written on the disc.

Let's just say I traded taking legal action against him for a sizable chunk of his actual NIB inventory.

Other than that flucknut, I've had minimal problems.

[SLK001]

A lot of people don't know how to properly use the eBay search engine. You must understand that most of the people here are extremely computer literate (except the MAC users!).

[tgpo]

(except the MAC users!).

It's because we don't have to be. Our computers actually work for us

[pacmania_2001]

(except the MAC users!).

It's because we don't have to be. Our computers actually work for us

For the price you pay for them you'd want them to do something right.

Explain that again.

Found a site selling DVD9 "back-ups" of the latest movies based in Malaysia. Put it on eBay with an initial price of $1 to see what it'd go for as a joke, ended up having three people (not including my other personas) bidding for it.

[The village idiot]

Shill bidding is bad!

[pacmania_2001]

Shill bidding is bad!

If you are a bidder it is, for the seller it is a just another technique to inflate the price.

Morally it's wrong, economically I don't have a problem doing it.

[ChrisX]

Yes, they are stupid and I wouldn't buy anything from ebay.

Read this: eBay fraud

[The village idiot]

Shill bidding is bad!

If you are a bidder it is, for the seller it is a just another technique to inflate the price.

Morally it's wrong, economically I don't have a problem doing it.

The way I look at it, if you set your opening bid to the lowest you are willing to take, you shouldn't have to worry about needing to find/make a shill. There is of course always the reserve, but that is for peckerheads that don't want to make the opening price what they really want to get.

Do you leave youself feedback when your shill wins the bid?

[pacmania_2001]

The way I look at it, if you set your opening bid to the lowest you are willing to take, you shouldn't have to worry about needing to find/make a shill. There is of course always the reserve, but that is for peckerheads that don't want to make the opening price what they really want to get.

Do you leave youself feedback when your shill wins the bid?

Haven't needed to leave feedback yet, I'm very good at shill bidding so that I never get stuck with my own item.

As for keeping your bid at the lowest you are willing to take that might work in some cases but I find it's more successful leading someone into an auction because of a low price then slowing increasing the price.

The flipside to that arguement is that buyers will still pay only what they want to pay for the item. If they proxy bid say $10 and are the highest bidder on the item which is now at $5 and I inflate the price to $8 they are still getting the item cheaper than the price they were prepared to pay.

[Faustus]

The way I look at it, if you set your opening bid to the lowest you are willing to take, you shouldn't have to worry about needing to find/make a shill. There is of course always the reserve, but that is for peckerheads that don't want to make the opening price what they really want to get.

Do you leave youself feedback when your shill wins the bid?

Haven't needed to leave feedback yet, I'm very good at shill bidding so that I never get stuck with my own item.

As for keeping your bid at the lowest you are willing to take that might work in some cases but I find it's more successful leading someone into an auction because of a low price then slowing increasing the price.

The flipside to that arguement is that buyers will still pay only what they want to pay for the item. If they proxy bid say $10 and are the highest bidder on the item which is now at $5 and I inflate the price to $8 they are still getting the item cheaper than the price they were prepared to pay.

Yeah but if you get caught they will ban you for it.