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sephorablue · Marc Jacobs

I do not understand people.

Hermes

what gets me is when people pay more for an item than it's retailing for, and it's available in stores. it's like people have bargain goggles on in ebay - not everything is a good deal, and people just assume it is.

carmenb513 · Coach

D wrote:

what gets me is when people pay more for an item than it's retailing for, and it's available in stores. it's like people have bargain goggles on in ebay - not everything is a good deal, and people just assume it is.

lol!

member · Hermes

I will never understand why people do that! I also cannot for the life of me understand why people don't wait until the last minute to bid on things, so that whoever wins it, could get it for a good deal. Instead, people will bid all week (say the auction is 7 days) and just jack the price up more and more.

zeitgeist4 · Gucci

I think it's all part of the eBay mentality that you "win" things. You hardly ever hear "Oh, I bought that on eBay." You hear "I won this on eBay!!" It's a competition or something, like you're beating out someone else to win it, even if you're paying an obscene amount.

Kitty · Hermes

shopchicago33 wrote:

I will never understand why people do that! I also cannot for the life of me understand why people don't wait until the last minute to bid on things, so that whoever wins it, could get it for a good deal. Instead, people will bid all week (say the auction is 7 days) and just jack the price up more and more.

That's what really bothers me.

sephorablue · Marc Jacobs

Kitty wrote:

shopchicago33 wrote:

I will never understand why people do that! I also cannot for the life of me understand why people don't wait until the last minute to bid on things, so that whoever wins it, could get it for a good deal. Instead, people will bid all week (say the auction is 7 days) and just jack the price up more and more.

That's what really bothers me.

see that I can sort of understand... maybe people bid early and just enter their max to keep themselves from getting caught up in a last-minute bidding war and spending more than they wanted to. I know I've definitely had moments of ebay rage where I really want something and somebody keeps up-bidding me at the last minute, and I keep upping my maximum cause I get so pissed off. And I guess maybe the same thing can cause somebody to enter a bid that's basically the retail price of the item in question--but I still think that's crazy. With that sweater, I definitely figured out what my max was based on what percentage of retail price I'd be saving if I won--and over that, it just wasn't worth it to me. I'd just as soon order it full-price from a retail company and not have to deal with ebay crap, seller crap, paypal crap, feedback crap, etc.

Kitty · Hermes

sephorablue wrote:

Kitty wrote:

shopchicago33 wrote:

I will never understand why people do that! I also cannot for the life of me understand why people don't wait until the last minute to bid on things, so that whoever wins it, could get it for a good deal. Instead, people will bid all week (say the auction is 7 days) and just jack the price up more and more.

That's what really bothers me.

see that I can sort of understand... maybe people bid early and just enter their max to keep themselves from getting caught up in a last-minute bidding war and spending more than they wanted to. I know I've definitely had moments of ebay rage where I really want something and somebody keeps up-bidding me at the last minute, and I keep upping my maximum cause I get so pissed off. And I guess maybe the same thing can cause somebody to enter a bid that's basically the retail price of the item in question--but I still think that's crazy. With that sweater, I definitely figured out what my max was based on what percentage of retail price I'd be saving if I won--and over that, it just wasn't worth it to me. I'd just as soon order it full-price from a retail company and not have to deal with ebay crap, seller crap, paypal crap, feedback crap, etc.

Yeah, very, very early on, when I'm interested an item, I come up wth the maximum I'm willing to spend on the item. Then, I wait till the last minute and put in the amount and have it all ready. At the last 10 seconds I push enter. If I get outbit, i get outbid. I know a lot of people don't work like that, though and just get insane with ebay mania.

Cortney1982 · Chanel

I can only imagine somebody paying retail or even over retail price is if the item they want is unavailable where they live.

Now bidding days in advance before the auction ends is no biggie. Sometimes you don't want miss out on something you want to get if you can't be on a computer.

Hermes

Kitty wrote:

when I'm interested an item, I come up wth the maximum I'm willing to spend on the item. Then, I wait till the last minute and put in the amount and have it all ready. At the last 10 seconds I push enter. If I get outbit, i get outbid. I know a lot of people don't work like that, though and just get insane with ebay mania.

this is what I do too. I rarely lose an auction, and I avoid being nickle and dimed to death by other bidders. put in the max amount you are honestly willing to pay in the last 10 seconds and there's no games and no regrets. it's called sniping and it works.

the only times I bid before is if it's a really valuable find and the seller doesn't realize it to ensure they don't change the listing when someone tips them off, or when I know I absolutely cannot make it to a computer and I put in the max I'm willing to pay (I haven't won many of those...)