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Title: eBay Yet Again
Post by: Mudlark on November 20, 2006, 17:14:38
Who in their right mid would pay £125:50 + £8:00 postage for a used Terratrip 202 tripmeter when a new one only costs £160?

Beggars belief :shock:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Here if yo want to see it (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=006&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=160051506352&rd=1&rd=1) 5 hours still to run
Title: eBay Yet Again
Post by: Bulli on November 20, 2006, 17:18:56
loads of stuff on ebay goes for more than it costs new...i think people get swept away with the excitement of it all :?
Title: eBay Yet Again
Post by: Mudlark on November 20, 2006, 17:20:07
Quote from: "Bulli"
loads of stuff on ebay goes for more than it costs new...i think people get swept away with the excitement of it all :?



Never the stuff I try to sell though :(  :(  :lol:
Title: eBay Yet Again
Post by: Bulli on November 20, 2006, 17:24:37
:lol: me either!
Title: eBay Yet Again
Post by: blackbob on November 20, 2006, 18:14:29
my son has just sold a 2nd hand psp for £820 he is thinking that its a fake bid so will have to wait and see the bids went 150.00 then150.45 then 350,450,800,820 so will just have to wait
Title: eBay Yet Again
Post by: gtomo2 on November 20, 2006, 18:33:52
A lot of it is down to the auto bidding programs you can get if you dont set a low up limit it just keeps going up everytime someone bids on it.
Title: eBay Yet Again
Post by: Sheddy on November 20, 2006, 20:01:11
Not always.  Sometime people get auction fever.  It happened to me when I sold off my darkroom gear, a lass in Scotland had set her heart on it and wouldn't be out bid.  The setup was worth about £150 (wet darkrooms equipment is dirt cheap now) but finally sold for £585 ..... and she told me that she had put in a proxy bid of £1k.  Shame it didn't go that high!
Title: eBay Yet Again
Post by: Mudlark on November 20, 2006, 20:06:31
Quote from: "Sheddy"
Not always.  Sometime people get auction fever.  It happened to me when I sold off my darkroom gear, a lass in Scotland had set her heart on it and wouldn't be out bid.  The setup was worth about £150 (wet darkrooms equipment is dirt cheap now) but finally sold for £585 ..... and she told me that she had put in a proxy bid of £1k.  Shame it didn't go that high!



Time to dig out my sheet developer then - so long since I've looked at it I've forgotten what it's called apart from it's an agfa thingie I think :roll:  :roll:  :lol:
Title: eBay Yet Again
Post by: Jake on November 20, 2006, 20:36:45
Quote from: "blackbob"
my son has just sold a 2nd hand psp for £820 he is thinking that its a fake bid so will have to wait and see the bids went 150.00 then150.45 then 350,450,800,820 so will just have to wait


We had one the same as that, when we sold the rear seats from our old disco
Bids were about £110 then they bounced all the way up too £500!
They offered to pay via Western Union, claiming to send me a cheque for £2000 which i cash then send them the change.
Turns out it was a scam.
A Policeman who was watching my seats warned me about it and told me how it worked.
I declined their offer and sold them to the next highest bidder.
Be careful  :wink:
Title: Re: eBay Yet Again
Post by: Xtremeteam on November 20, 2006, 21:13:42
Quote from: "Mudlark"
Who in their right mid would pay £125:50 + £8:00 postage for a used Terratrip 202 tripmeter when a new one only costs £160?

Beggars belief :shock:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Here if yo want to see it (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=006&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=160051506352&rd=1&rd=1) 5 hours still to run

i was watching that with a plan to bid on it,BTW where u getting a 202 from at £160
Title: Re: eBay Yet Again
Post by: Mudlark on November 20, 2006, 22:32:16
Quote from: "SmokeyNtheBandit"
Quote from: "Mudlark"
Who in their right mid would pay £125:50 + £8:00 postage for a used Terratrip 202 tripmeter when a new one only costs £160?

Beggars belief :shock:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Here if yo want to see it (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=006&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=160051506352&rd=1&rd=1) 5 hours still to run

i was watching that with a plan to bid on it,BTW where u getting a 202 from at £160


I was watching it but I reckoned it was too high when I first found it
Don Barrow (http://www.donbarrow.co.uk/terratrip_tripmeters.html) has them listed at £165.53 sensors are £29.07 - might be VAT on top but it doesn't say. The Brantz ones are the same price but look a lot better IMO
Title: eBay Yet Again
Post by: Xtremeteam on November 21, 2006, 20:28:15
would rather have a terratrip over a Brantz but thats just my opinion,im sure thats +vat
Title: eBay Yet Again
Post by: Mudlark on November 21, 2006, 21:10:17
Well first I found this [Don Barrow is a Non-Vat Registered Company] and secondly the postage is only £9 - so that makes it pretty cheap


And I'd bet you'd buy a Brantz at the right price :wink:  :lol:
Title: eBay Yet Again
Post by: Xtremeteam on November 21, 2006, 21:13:49
Quote from: "Mudlark"
Well first I found this [Don Barrow is a Non-Vat Registered Company] and secondly the postage is only £9 - so that makes it pretty cheap


And I'd bet you'd buy a Brantz at the right price :wink:  :lol:

If it does average speed ill buy the fooker right now if the price is right
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