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Ever won something on ebay that's gone so ridiculously cheap that you feel you've robbed the seller? I've just got something at probably 1/4 of what previous ones have gone for (just bad bidding as it ended on a sunday morning) and the guy even said he was gutted at the price. I know it's worth more - would you chuck a bit more cash their way to ease any feeling of 'I've been robbed'?
Costs are in the range of £75 vs £300 judging by two similar previous auctions.
I once won an armchair for 50p!!
Nope. If he wanted £300 he should have put a reserve on - just tried to save money by not doing it.
I usually find that if an auction goes for way under what it normal would, it's usually the sellers fault. Misspelt item names, bad starting/finishing times, poorly written adverts etc.
I wouldn't feel guilty and wouldn't offer any more cash, but times are tight. If you've got the money to spare and want to pass on some good karma, I don't see why not.
No I wouldnt. It cuts both ways. I have bought stuff for fair prices and very cheap but equally I have sold stuff for less than I hoped to get for it. Its the risk you take when using eBay.
I sold plenty of stuff for 99p that was worth lots more and people came looking sheepish, in the end I would rather someone came and got it than I threw it in the tip.
If he too daft not to get a pal to bid him up, or put a reserve on, then tough titties, be happy it was you and not someone else.
I've done so in the past - but then again, he listed it as an auction not as buy it now. You could easily shrug it off as the rough and tumble of auctioning stuff...
Won hundreds of pounds of building materials at 99p a go. Being collection only makes for limited bidders. I do feel a bit harsh giving then a quid but generally they are happy to get the stuff out the way. I'd never feel guilty paying £75 for anything
Bought something for 1p last week. The woman said she felt strange accepting it. I said I felt guilty offering it.
Pay what you bid I say.
99p for 4 pairs of Dickies Eisenhower work trousers (1 pair new the otehr tip top) and 2 pairs of new work shorts.
Still can't believe the seller sent them.
Tim
A fellow STWer was selling his nice CX frame. Another mate of ours offered him some cash for it but he reckoned he could get more so stuck it on ebay.
Our mate won the auction and got it for less than he'd originally offered 🙂
That's ebay - you've got nothing to be guilty about.
Stuff is only worth what someone else is prepared to pay for it when you sell it.
So, nothing to feel guilty about at all
mini antique odera telescope, bought for a tenner sold £175 BIN within seconds......should have asked for more
Bought an IKEA high sleeper bed for my daughter for 99p. Took a bottle of wine with me for the seller to drown her sorrows.
Was it that lapierre rapt that went dirt cheap?
Won a brand new pair of Fox 32's for £110.Offered to let him re-list as they were fetching £200+ but he said no.So I gifted him another £50 because it's the right thing to do (ie not be a douche bag).
Won a brand new pair of Fox 32's for £110.Offered to let him re-list as they were fetching £200+ but he said no.So I gifted him another £50 because it's the right thing to do
very noble of you!
Rorschach
Since when has being a sucker been the right thing to do? Ebay is an auction site and is it really immoral to expect to pick up a bargain once in a while?
I one won one of them super child carrying rucksack things, those that stand upright with a nipper in it and can also hold loads of gear for long walks... They are about £100 new and this was like new, I won it for about £4 quid cash on collection. Poor fella was obviously skint judging by his digs and demeanor. I gave him a tenner and said just give us a fiver back....
Not really, let him keep the change. He was well made up!
I one won one of them super child carrying rucksack things, those that stand upright with a nipper in it and can also hold loads of gear for long walks... They are about £100 new and this was like new, I won it for about £4 quid cash on collection. Poor fella was obviously skint judging by his digs and demeanor. I gave him a tenner and said just give us a fiver back....
Not really, let him keep the change. He was well made up!
Rorschach
Since when has being a sucker been the right thing to do? Ebay is an auction site and is it really immoral to expect to pick up a bargain once in a while?
It just gives him chance to make a holier-than-thou comment on a cycling forum to allow him to remain warm and fuzzy inside. It was probably worth the fifty quid just for that brief feeling of euphoria when he pressed "send post" about five minutes ago.
If a seller really doesn't want to sell you it for the rediculous price there are ways out of it for them. Bit underhand and opens them up to bad feedback but if they are going to be seriously out of pocket then it's worth it.
The seller can weigh up weather the cheap price is less of a loss than the bad feedback.
A buyer shouldn't feel guilty if the seller sees selling as the better option for them at that stage.
Could have given £50 to charity, but gave it away to someone on Ebay instead.
How have we got so many responses without anyone asking what it was you've bought?
Once bought a TSG piss pot helmet for 99p + £4 P&P. The seller had it listed as a "Helmut". Paid and he posted it no problems. When it arrived it had £8 worth of stamps on the box.
I bought an almost new, not a mark on it table top drawing board last Friday. It finished at about 2pm. Starting bid was £2:50. RRP was £120. Pick up only about 30 miles away. Stuck a speculative bid in of £20, not fussed if I won or not. Ended up winning it for £2.70. When I collected it on Sunday morning I gave him £5 and he insisted I take the change!
If you want a certain price for something then put a reserve on it or start it close to the minimum you would take. Not rocket science.
If you feel like being nice bung him a few extra quid. Why not? There's more to life than money.
It just gives him chance to make a holier-than-thou comment on a cycling forum to allow him to remain warm and fuzzy inside.
It buys me karma points for when I have to call some twunt a total arse hat 🙄
Not bike related , but won a new Tamiya electronic kit that does the lights , sounds etc and goes on their RC trucks, Won it for 1 euro was worth about £170. Didn't have a use for it so was sold for £90 about a week later. Speculate to Accumulate.
I 'won' in bidding for an old Landrover Series hardtop and sides a couple of days ago. Got it for £35. They have been selling for a lot more. One that I was watching went for £225 yesterday. Although it's miles away (1hr 1/2!) I'll be taking a couple of quid extra when I collect tomorrow night to make it seem fair. I'm a bit soft like that!
A resounding 'no' from this forum hah! Somebody above knows what it was I bought 🙂 Ebay is a funny thing. I don't think I've ever been shafted but a few times I maybe expected something like £20 and things have sold for 99p. Makes you feel like a total waste of time going to the post office with them, but the way I think is at least the item's going to be used by someone, and surely it's more than just money... everyone is important and knowing they're going to enjoy the item is worth something in itself.
Gearbox worth 4-500 for 70.
Engine worth 1200 for 300.
Supercharger worth 3-400 for 99posted.
No regrets here, reserve or starting price if you care about value, otherwise quit your moaning, seller!
100 brand new Welsh roofing slates for 99p. Seller wasn't happy.. especially when I asked for my change when I gave him a pound coin.
Auctioned a Redfyre Range Cooker (like an AGA) with a split boiler (couldn't get either a new or s/h one). Put it on at 99p and got £1.50 for it.
About 400kg of material, but I'd rather someone bought it to use rather than just scrapped it - he wanted it for his cottage.
£60 for a £250 turntable, incorrectly named by seller but proper name was clearly visible in his photos.
Listed as a mk1 but it was the much better and sought after mk2.
I have stuck loads of stuff on for 99p that is worth more, but I have just wanted rid of it. Stupid to just put stuff in the bin though, so would rather someone else made use of it.
Some of it has gone cheaply, some of it has gone for more than i was expecting, so it works out about even, I reckon.
Not sure I have had that many bargains although these days I only seem to look for stuff that I need and want and end up just doing BIN.
I wouldn't feel guilty though if I got a bargain purchase.
I once sold a set of roof bars for pennies, collection only. Then couldn't be bothered arranging to wait in, so delivered them on my way home from work. Got a reasonable bottle of tinto for my troubles....
roof bars and 2 like new Mont Blanc bike carriers for £5 collection only. seller presumably couldn't be arsed packing and posting, had them finishing mid afternoon on a easter bank hol sunday before the days of smartphone and the title/description was poor. His wife did the deal on collection and she admitted that he wasn't happy (he was too busy in the house), I gave her a tenner. At the time, one 2nd hand MB bike carrier was going for £40 + postage if you were willing to make an effort to box up and post and write a half intelligent title/description.
I've let some stuff go for peanuts and won some things for next to nothing.
It seems to even out, as someone posted above.
I won a BMX from someone local for £8 - walked round and gave him a tenner.
Won a MTB for £12 and gave the woman £20. Cheap bike but in good nick, sold it on to a work colleague for £20 (i wuz robbed)
A month or two ago I tried to bid on a Pivot Mach 5.7 frame that was sitting at something silly like £400 with a minute to go. I bolloxed the bidding due to shite phone signal and watched it sell for just that. I felt really sorry for the seller cos my bid, even if not successful, would have netted him another couple of hundred quid.
If a couple of bidders had run the auction up to 4x what he was expecting, do you think that he would have refunded part of it?
As other posters have pointed out, there are ways (reserve, starting price, etc.) that the seller can set a minimum. He did not, so pay what you owe and enjoy whatever you bought.
My mate got a set of Oakley skiing "googles" for 99p a while back. You can get some bargains on Avid "Elexir" brakes (or indeed "breaks") sometimes too.
Sometimes it pays to be a spelling nazi.
There is an app that searches for common misspellings of items I think.
Had a few:
£5 for brand new XTR front brake and disc - buyer meant to put a £5 res, but still went through with the sale.
£25 for brand new Turner rear triangle
£35 for brand new Northwave Celcius boots
£50 for a CCDB in the 'unicorn' 6.5 x 1.5 size
Also been stung with my own £1 res auctions, win some, lose some.
It's funny you ask. Had my eye on a Ribble Audax on for £1. Forgot on the weekend in question and ended with no bidders. If I had won I'd have given the chap £20 when I collected.
It all evens out, so I wouldn't have felt guilty at all.
As someone mentioned, Ebay does have this reserve thing you can use, if you're particularly worried about price.
You're lucky he doesn't just refuse to sell it.
I won a Mondeo estate a couple of years ago, a good price but not crazy cheap and the guys just refused to sell it saying he was "hoping for more"
He'd specificity listed it "no reserve", so I left -ve feedback and reported him to ebay who did bobins. same car was for sale the following week an only made £50 more than I won it for, who knows if he sold it that time.
Annoying especially as I've sold stuff before which didn't reach what I'd hoped for but still sold it.
If people are too stupid not to put a realistic reserve on an item, that's their fault!
Cheers,
Jamie
haveyou had the old "its been stolen/its broken/cant find it " email yet
I sold the seat stays off my old Top Fuel last week. Properly tiny market, but actually expensive, and if two people need them then woop de do, potential to make reasonable money.
Listed at 99p, one bloke wanted them, so sold for 99p. I then had to post them to Germany! Passed on the postage costs, but with fees, hassle, etc I'm out of pocket, which is a shame! Still, someone's got some new seat stays, I was never going to use them, so they're not cluttering up the garage!
I'd not want the buyer feeling guilty, he's just done rather well out of it!
njee - Just wondering why you didn't start the auction at something like £25?
starting auctions with a higher price incurs higher listing fees iirc. as does having a reserve. shill bidding FTW.
I've actually refunded part of the amount on something when the buyers have paid well over the odds. They got carried away and it really wasn't worth what they were prepared to pay.
maybe I'm a mug? maybe I'm just nice? All I know is I'm happy being me.
Hah nice one gogg, maybe you were just worried they'd neg you when they got the items and realised they're actually a pile of dog doo!
My item was picked up on tuesday and I've been out today giving it a bit of welly on some bmx tracks; very pleased indeed. Win some lose some eh? I'm veering away from using ebay to sell anything these days. I don't like the way they take so much from sellers now, and do very little for their share of the money. They have a monopoly on a specific market and for some reason they haven't been successfully challenged.
Dan, no I just didn't think it was worth that much, rather than being worried about a neg.
£23 for a pair of brand new bontrager 29-3's they're something like £40 each, so mushn't grumble
OTOH, I've sold an unused (but rare) WP ink ribbon to someone, she paid a decent amount, I had a used ribbon (no idea of how used) as well, so chucked that in as a sweetener. Karma..
I've had folk give me extra for postage (esp. books) when I've put less than it cost for P&P (in early days when I was naive).
Scapegoat - Member
A month or two ago I tried to bid on a Pivot Mach 5.7 frame that was sitting at something silly like £400
I was looking at that too. My other half distracted me at the critical moment and like you I watched it go in disbelief for under £500 😥
I sold two old derailleurs for 99 pence each plus postage, I just wanted to get rid of them so I feel quite happy that they will get reused.