Flaming Ebay

porushinobu · 2 Feb 2015 at 10:43

I hope he doesn't succeed, on the other hand, what if the courier mis handled the package, wouldn't be the first time.

Caged said:
Thank you Captain Hindsight

Love that reference!

porushinobu · 2 Feb 2015 at 10:44

Scrutinize said:
I don't understand why people get wound up over low ball offers.

Cash is king and its the customer that holds the cash. There is nothing rude about bargaining, a seller can always say no to a low offer. Nothing is lost bar a few seconds of time.

it's because of people like me offering to buy the likes of a car for 50p

soundb0y · 2 Feb 2015 at 12:25

gambitt said:
This sort of thing does happen but it's rare. I expect it to happen once in every 50 sales.

As far as forum selling goes, I don't have time for back and forth messages because someone is trying to haggle £3, plus all the messages for information exchange, logging into internet banking to check if funds have arrived, sending another message to confirm receipt of funds and another to confirm despatch. It's not a "few seconds", it's 20+ minutes of effort per item.

I'd rather pay 10% and have it all done in one or two clicks.

Apart from its often significantly more than 10%. That and getting stiffed on one item can totally screw you out of any money you may have made.

gambitt · 2 Feb 2015 at 12:35

soundb0y said:
Apart from its often significantly more than 10%. That and getting stiffed on one item can totally screw you out of any money you may have made.

But the sale price is almost always higher because you don't have to deal with hagglers.