This numpty (apologies if the link dies – it’s on eBay) is trying to sell Star Wars: The Phantom Menace on VHS… for £30. For those unaware, it can’t have cost much more than a third of that when it came out maybe 3 years ago.
Today, you can buy the same film on DVD and buy a DVD player to play it on for around £30. Who on earth would pay that much (plus postage) for it?
eBay is full of such stuff. Buyers are no better than the hopeful sellers. As some of you may be aware, I recently shifted my Region 1 copy of Buffy season 4 for a reasonable £20. I’ve got the rest of the series in Region 2 and just wanted the packaging to all be the same when they’re on the shelf, plus my new DVD player’s not that keen on R1 discs.
So, off I plod on eBay to try and get a cheap-ish second hand copy of season 4 on R2. Can I heckers like. Every single one is going for around the £30 mark. Plus postage. I’ve had the quickest of searches on the web and found half a dozen places charging this much – including delivery – for a brand new copy. Why pay the same or more for second hand?
Answer: people are stupid. It just pisses me off cos I want to pay about half price for a second hand copy, which seems reasonable. But other people’s bloody stupidity is making that near impossible!
Apologies for a rant with hardly any humour, sex or vomit in it. I’ll get over it and start being a sick **** again soon.
haven’t used e-bay yet as it’s TOO SCARY
I dont think I’d be very good then 🙁 cant stick to limits, thats why I cant go shopping alone anymore.
I got into a bidding war for a set of data CDs that cost about £60 new from the manufacturer. Bids started at about £20 and kept going up and up and I dropped out at £50. Some muppet ended up paying £75 for them. How crackers is that?
I’m with JJ on this one, Too Scary, but if I ever move, might have a go at selling my junk on it! lol
Lad at work was looking for a roulette set for his xmas do recently. He checked around and brand new they’re £25-ish from Gadget Shop and the like.
He got his on eBay for £15. The same guy sold another one the same for £48.
Madness.
Lorraine was looking at buying something where the guy was selling a load of the same things – buy it now £20. The item which she was bidding on eventually ended at £28 or so. Dumb ***** could have looked 3 lines down as saved a third of the price.
To be fair, Caz, the only thing you lose is a bit of time trying to get the thing cheap. You often do get a bargain.
They’re the ones who lose out. You scout around, work out the most you’re prepared to pay for “whatever” and don’t go about that limit. As long as you stick to that rule, you’ll not lose out.
Well if there ***** like that on ebay i think i’ll steer clear :p
haven’t used e-bay yet as it’s TOO SCARY
I dont think I’d be very good then 🙁 cant stick to limits, thats why I cant go shopping alone anymore.
I got into a bidding war for a set of data CDs that cost about £60 new from the manufacturer. Bids started at about £20 and kept going up and up and I dropped out at £50. Some muppet ended up paying £75 for them. How crackers is that?
I’m with JJ on this one, Too Scary, but if I ever move, might have a go at selling my junk on it! lol
Lad at work was looking for a roulette set for his xmas do recently. He checked around and brand new they’re £25-ish from Gadget Shop and the like.
He got his on eBay for £15. The same guy sold another one the same for £48.
Madness.
Lorraine was looking at buying something where the guy was selling a load of the same things – buy it now £20. The item which she was bidding on eventually ended at £28 or so. Dumb ***** could have looked 3 lines down as saved a third of the price.
To be fair, Caz, the only thing you lose is a bit of time trying to get the thing cheap. You often do get a bargain.
They’re the ones who lose out. You scout around, work out the most you’re prepared to pay for “whatever” and don’t go about that limit. As long as you stick to that rule, you’ll not lose out.
Well if there ***** like that on ebay i think i’ll steer clear :p