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Re: Another ebay scammer
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lugnet.market.auction
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Tue, 5 Oct 1999 07:04:38 GMT
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Troy Cefaratti wrote:
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> > I am really curious as to why these over-ambitious capitalists are • considered
> > scam artists. None of these listings openly lie about the products, true • they
> > don't come out and advertise their competition, but they break no laws. • These
> > sellers are simply trying to make easy money. What is the difference • between
> > what they do and what a retail outlet does, both mark product up to make a
> > profit. These ebay bidders are not tricked or coerced into making their • bids,
> > they believe that the product is worth the amount they are willing to • spend.
> > Around here KB toys typically charges about 10% above retail on all sets, • but
> > no one gets upset or hostile toward them, we just purchase elsewhere.
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> "not available in stores" implies that you cannot get the set yourself.
> Also, did you see the editing on the image? I'm sure that there was a price
> or a phone number there. Misleading again.
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> The difference between this and KB is that there is a BIG difference between
> a 10% markup over retail and a 100% markup over retail.
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> The difference between this and say a lot that gets bid up to an extravagant
> ammount is that this set had an opening bid that was extravagant.
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> Unfortunately, I really don't see a solution to the problem. It really is
> the bidders fault if they are not educated enough on the product to know
> what a fair price is. And evidently one person did think that this was a
> fair price for this set, or else they wouldn't have bid on it.
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> I must admit though, that this one isn't as bad as some of the McDonalds
> ones recently.....
Um, it's WORSE than the McD sets. It's not a limited time set, and the
starting bid was 400% markup, and if the guy used the buy-5-save-$4.50 deal
in the S@H catalogs, it was a 600% markup.
Believe it or not, some of us PAID $11 for that McD set ;-) I've bought
40+ already to send all over the world.
--
Tom Stangl
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| (...) deal (...) I was refering to how misleading the auction was when I said it was worse the the McDonalds set auctions. I believe that the McDonald's auctions were much more misleading, atleast the ones that I saw were. Of course, based on just (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| (...) considered (...) they (...) These (...) between (...) bids, (...) spend. (...) but (...) "not available in stores" implies that you cannot get the set yourself. Also, did you see the editing on the image? I'm sure that there was a price or a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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