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Has anyone else noticed how more and more useless Ebay is becoming for buying car stuff?
It's not a lack of items - far from it. It's that everyone seems to put everything up at the same Buy it Now price as everyone else and then.... none of it sells because it's all so overpriced.
So the buy it now expires. So the seller re-lists. At the same price. So somebody else decides to sell another of the same item. So he lists it at the same price as everyone else. And never sells it.
Occasionally, one sells.....
...then gets relisted next week. At the same price.
So you try and negotiate with somebody. 'Sorry mate, all the others are £X, so its worth £x'.
So the net result is that nobody seems to sell anything because nobody buys it because the prices are all daft. What's going on?
I was trying to use Ebay to value my wheels for example. There have been a few sets and there are usually about 2 or 3 of them up at any one time. Always at the same price. Never selling. Except when they do sell and mysteriously re-appear the week after at the same price. It's impossible to work out what people actually would pay for something because nobody does auctions anymore, just ever-for-sale buy it now.
Rant over
It's not a lack of items - far from it. It's that everyone seems to put everything up at the same Buy it Now price as everyone else and then.... none of it sells because it's all so overpriced.
So the buy it now expires. So the seller re-lists. At the same price. So somebody else decides to sell another of the same item. So he lists it at the same price as everyone else. And never sells it.
Occasionally, one sells.....
...then gets relisted next week. At the same price.
So you try and negotiate with somebody. 'Sorry mate, all the others are £X, so its worth £x'.
So the net result is that nobody seems to sell anything because nobody buys it because the prices are all daft. What's going on?
I was trying to use Ebay to value my wheels for example. There have been a few sets and there are usually about 2 or 3 of them up at any one time. Always at the same price. Never selling. Except when they do sell and mysteriously re-appear the week after at the same price. It's impossible to work out what people actually would pay for something because nobody does auctions anymore, just ever-for-sale buy it now.
Rant over
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