why would you pay this?

[beast5680]

why would you pay this then when main suppliers are only charging £35-£45 for the same thing? me thinks someone attempting to make a fast buck

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14763&item=7945782273&rd=1

[muddyweb]

Personally, I wouldn't

Things are only worth as much as people will pay for them.  If he can sell them at that price, then people must be happy to pay that.

Not sure why he is 'making a fast buck' though  :?

[beast5680]

fast buck is cos i would suspect he is buying them for £40 odd quid and just moving them on for a profit, now theres a thought why didnt i think of that :twisted:

[muddyweb]

Just like the dealers, who are buying them at 15 quid and selling them on for 35-45.......

[thermidorthelobster]

Surely the whole of modern capitalist society is built around buying things and selling them on for a profit?  Surely he wouldn't buy them and sell them at a loss?  

It's a free market - if people are prepared to pay more than the going rate for something, then so be it.  Like Tim said, things are worth what somebody is prepared to pay for them.

[beast5680]

your quite right :D  and i have no problem with the dealer buying the stuff and marking it up(although sometimes i think the decimal point gets put in the wrong place) its their job and how they make a living i was merely pointing out that i thought this was a bad deal compared with whats on the market that is similar

[strapping young lad]

thing is with these

i think they would only look good if the rear lights were done as well but ive yet to see rear clusters in white  

[thermidorthelobster]

I think people have a tendency to assume, when using eBay, that everything's a bargain.  People forget the "free market" thing, ie that the seller can be charging whatever the hell they want.

As a seller, you could probably argue that you're using eBay to market products to people who wouldn't otherwise know they existed, so you have a right to charge whatever you wanted;  if the buyer was really keen to get a bargain, they'd do their homework better.

I used to work for a computer hardware distributor, selling to the trade.  Some of our customers assumed that the price we quoted them came from some magic pricelist, and that we were charging them a fair price for anything we quoted them.  In reality, we could see our buy price, and we'd charge the customer whatever we thought they'd put up with.  If a price went down, why would we pass that to our customer, if we knew he'd pay the pre-reduction amount?  The sales people in that company were on 100% commission as a percentage of the profit they made.

I tend to assume, whenever buying anything in that situation, that the seller is going to play the game.  Consequently, I sometimes end up not buying anything, as I always assume I'm being ripped off!

[Digsit]

Be interesting to see if he actually sells any........no feedback and no rating = No punters :-k. You wouldn't, would you? :-s

[strapping young lad]

to be honest if you werent aware of online clubs etc or other suppliers and use ebay a lot then why not

[Andy.]

I'm in the process of waiting on a company doing some for the rear lights  

[Range Rover Blues]

Question is are they legal, I had a mate who put White DIs on his MkII Fiesta and got a ticket from the feds for them!

[muddyweb]

AFAIK, if the are 'E' marked, they are legal.