Thread: More eBay madness

When the thrill of the hunt sets in common sense goes out the window.
I spent a long time looking and bidding on planes that went for way more than the going rate. I then turned to antique shops and markets. The price is stated up front and no bad feelings afterwords.The trick with auctions is discipline. Have a set limit for the item and stick to it . If you miss that one then look again later.
Regards
John

Originally Posted by orraloon

When the thrill of the hunt sets in common sense goes out the window.
I spent a long time looking and bidding on planes that went for way more than the going rate. I then turned to antique shops and markets. The price is stated up front and no bad feelings afterwords.The trick with auctions is discipline. Have a set limit for the item and stick to it . If you miss that one then look again later.
Regards
John

Its all good,WHEN you are selling though.Whats that saying about fools and idiots are easily parted from their money.Or something like that ,I was told as a small kid.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/tools_W0QQite...3A1%7C294%3A50

Maybe he's got someone waiting to buy it, maybe he knows something the rest of us don't, but I think it's more likely he's an idiot who thinks someone will pay $350 for a bench, without a picture, brand, dimensions, description...

The listing says "Workmate", new in box. That conjures up enough for me to know what he's talking about. The $350 opening bid is pretty sporting-what do they fetch new?

$115 0r $25,240

Quite a few years ago I saw a show on telly where a bunch of people were bidding on a Shaker cupboard. Oprah Winfrey was one of the bidders. I reckoned it was worth about 5 grand. Her winning bid was $250,000!!!

After a while you come to the depressing realisation that there are a lot of stupid people in this world.... and many of them are politicians.

And now we have a "Rare Veritas chisel plane" up for sale. Apparently it is a "Rare collector's item", but looks remarkably like their currently available invisible nailer kit which is obviously not particularly rare.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Rare-Veritas-...3A1%7C294%3A50

Gotta be worth something, comes from a smoke free home?????