Toby, On ebay decide what it is worth to you and be sure to include the
shipping. Then bid this amount with a couple of minutes left. If you get
out bid then it was to expensive. Several things I've gotten this way have
had bids bumping it up a couple of bucks, but they don't have time to hunt
for my max bid.
Crash
>Oh yes... e-bay is a gold mine. I had some "junk" laying around that I put
>up for sale. My rear heater for my land cruiser in very good condition
>fetched $300. I later learned that they are out of production and hard to
>find... but I still have piles of stuff to sell off. No Spridget stuff yet,
>and I will probably garage sale most of it on the list when my project is
>over (sometime after the apocolypse)... but if there are no takers, it's
>EBAY time.
>
>There is some fraud to worry about. I have witnessed some nasty sellers
jack
>up the price by creating fake accounts and users and bidding on their own
>items.
>Check the bid history on items you are interested in, and make sure all the
>bidders have some feedback, as that is harder to fake. 3 or 4 users with no
>feedback and all with e-mail going to the same provider as the seller is a
>dead give away. I usually send them a nasty e-mail and forward it to
>abuse@ebay.com just for good measure.
>
>I have purchased allot of hard to find stuff on there... One tactic is to
be
>a ruthless bidder and outbid everybody with 2 minutes left at the end of
the
>auction. It is pretty unsportsman like, but it does work. I had several
>auctions snapped up under me this way, and I finally caught on to their
>tactics.
>
>Toby
>
>
>>Listers
>>
>>I saw this item on E-bay 539170259- 2 (new) Flying A pedal pads for
>>$61.00!!!, there have been 5 bids on this already. I 'm amazed
>>someone is
>>willing to pay that kind of money. I guess someone must want
>>them really bad,
>>nice profit for the seller.
>>Greg Higgins
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