Nothing is cheap on Ebay!

[remmington]

Is it me - or has the value of money evaporated?

Everything I look at - just looks too expensive.

[studabear]

Ive noticed some of the chinese tools have increased in price.

[chippie]

I agree, the value has diminished, even looking on marketplace on fb, folk selling second hand stuff are asking top $.some of it is absolute rubbish….
My thoughts, if you want to sell something in a reasonable time frame, ask a reasonable price…..don’t be greedy!

[remmington]

Mar 14, 2022 7:54:42 GMT 1 chippie said:

I agree, the value has diminished, even looking on marketplace on fb, folk selling second hand stuff are asking top $.some of it is absolute rubbish….
My thoughts, if you want to sell something in a reasonable time frame, ask a reasonable price…..don’t be greedy!

I have even looked on eBay to find used things at a higher price than the cost of new item on the same selling pages?

[chippie]

Yep! That too…
There was a ‘used’ 16A caravan hook up cable 25m long advertised at £35 and collect only on market place near me….
I told them it won’t sell, a new one delivered is only £25!….
Suffice to say the price was reduced….to £30…… …..

[Rhubarb]

Depends what you're after, I've snagged a few bargains on ebay lately

[wightdiag]

You have to remember with eBay you are looking at survivorship bias  

- It is is on eBay that's because it has not sold at the price listed. if you look carefully at the page under description you will see "last updated View all revisions"

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So here we have a Jag fuse box average selling price about £20 this one is listed at £100

If you click the link you can see it's been there since Nov 21 unsold - 5 months.

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if you want something used set a search alert for it.  if you want something new put it on your watch list 24-48hrs later you will often get an offer from the seller of 5-10% off - esp if the same item is listed at the same price everywhere. 

For Amazon you can see the rise and fall of prices for a particular item on uk.camelcamelcamel.com/ they go up and down with demand and the season.

[Joepublic]

I’ve had stuff listed on eBay for years, nothing sells for months then 3 items in the same month, it’s all scrap really, some generates questions for other items I may have etc. A couple of hundred a year for free is how I look at it

[sorted]

It is a lot harder these days but I do find there are still some bargains to be had for the parts I am after on my classics- as long as you are not in a hurry.

I am also very good at setting myself a limit and pulling out of a bidding war if it goes too high- for same reason I usually only bid in last 5 mins anyway if I can be online at the right time. I see many people so desperate to win they pay more for used than a new one!

Actually the best thing I have found on eBay lately is the stuff the seller hasn’t listed yet. Had a couple of cases where I won single items, got chatting to seller and scored loads more parts cheap cos they wanted rid of them, and no fees etc.

[valhalla]

Mrs. Valhalla has been trying to set herself back up again as a seller - just a private seller, not business. The number of hoops she has been asked to jump-through, just to verify herself as a "valid & honest citizen" has now put her off.

She isn't as paranoid as myself when it comes to security questioning and making sure that Big Brother isn't stealing all your data, but she has drawn the line at eBay. Even she (after all my "coaching" on the subject for the last several years/decades) can see the danger in putting too much personal and banking information in one place, just to sell low-value things. She even set-up a "burner" bank-account to avoid having our joint accounts put in danger online, but the final straw came when they insisted on having her mobile number (landline will not do) for 2FA, and she doesn't have such a device, nor intends to have such a device.

All the packed-up stuff has been re-distributed into bigger boxes, and it is going to Oxfam by whatever courier method is the cheapest. She hates to have to spend money to part with good-quality bits and pieces (all her posh clothes, before we dropped-out of society to become hermits in the frozen wastes of the North), but she recognises the dangers with eBay, Amazon, FB Marketplace, etc. etc. Even Etsy and many of the other upstarts want to probe for dates-of-birth, bank details, mobile numbers, etc. ad-nauseum.

It's just so that they can track you.

[studabear]

Nothing better than a alcohol fueled ebay bravery purchase landing on the doorstep you forgot you even purchased.