Don White wrote:
Harry wrote:
NotNow wrote:
In article , naled24511
@mypacks.net says...
I am Tosk wrote:
In article , Bruce71
@gmail.com says...
I am Tosk wrote:
In , Bruce71
@gmail.com says...

Harry wrote:

Tim wrote:

Usually the winter time is when to find the bargains, and I
always
like looking at ebay for boats, and I see some delicious craft
that
should move and they're not even geting a bid. OR they have
reserves
and starting bids so jacked up no one is interested.

Looks like some people are wanting to get out of them for what
they
either have left on the loan, or they feel because it is
apraised at
$15,000, it ought to sell for $15,000.


What ever happened to the $10.00 opening bids with a fair
reserve?


Regardless, it looks like people are stuck with what they have.

It's possible that some sellers would rather keep their boat or
whatever than to sell it to some opportunistic shark.

I haven't shopped ebay in a long time. Last time I looked, it
seemed
full of sellers who used their other accounts or the accounts
of their
friends to sell merchandise.

How would you know that?

Bruce

He said "it seems"... I assume that means it is his opinion.. Either
way, it happens. Several years ago right here we had a guy who was
spamming us with his "boat stickers". I started watching his bidding
site on ebay and found that every item seemed to sell to similar
sellers
for almost the exact same price. I went to his profile and found
about 5
different "feedback" phrases repeated over and over again in a
pattern..
I called it to the attention of EBay and they pulled him down. It
was
pretty obvious he was bidding his own stuff up to keep the prices
fixed
and when he didn't get his bid he simply bought it himself and
put in
his own feedback.. Either way, I assume they (ebay) saw it they
way I
did as they pulled him down a day or so later, and he
dissappeared...

He would have paid the final value % to eBay. How can that be
profitable?

Bruce
I would imagine he sold a pretty good amount of stickers, he
spammed a lot of groups and his prices were eventually about the
same as everybody else s. Iirc, the prices were from 10-30 bucks or
so for most of his stuff so the percentages were probably absorbed
by the legit sales he had beefed up with his own bids. I openly
accused him here and at E-Bay, he never defended himself, he just
dissappeared... Like I said, if you had seen the spam and the
feedback, you would probably come to the same conclusion I did.

Scotty
I did pretty well on another auction site. After 13 years, the
crystal broke on my trust black luminox diver's watch. A proper
repair was going to run more than $75, so I shopped around for a new
luminox, but a different style.

We all saw the picture of your fat nail chewed hand and your cheap
ass Casio watch.

Well it's not a Rolex but it is a nice watch. My nail chewing is a
nervous habit. Let me see a picture of your hands, bub.

You told me it was from sexual tension.

Nerves... Tension... What's the difference.