Ebay Droppings Thread.

[Pac man]

Ian


I often look at the other items a seller has for sale to see if that is their "core" business or an "opportunity" sale.

Regards
Paul

I'd say this one was an opportunity sale.

Fair point Seannz. We dont rock / roll or shake and bake here.

[jimbur]

Or, are they moving away from their earthquake damaged house and may have had the most stressful 18 months of their lives? Doesn't do a lot for mental acuity.

You could google the seller's location, add the word "earthquake" if it's not too much extra effort......

A real can of worms you/ve opened there Seanz. How can we tell the difference between a stressful sale or loot?
Cheers,
Jim

[Bushmiller]

Or, are they moving away from their earthquake damaged house and may have had the most stressful 18 months of their lives? Doesn't do a lot for mental acuity.

You could google the seller's location, add the word "earthquake" if it's not too much extra effort......

Seanz

You have picked up on the local circumstances and humbled us. Nelson and Kaiapoi clearly were both in earthquake affected regions. I guess that if you too are in that vicinity you would know better than most and your local knowledge has us at a disadvantage.

We chose an unfortunate couple of listings to pick up on description deficiencies and I have to agree that mental acuity would not be prominent in their minds. Just surviving may well be occupying their minds to the exclusion of all else.

Unfortunately most people listing items below par don't have such mitigating circumstances and are either dumb or, if deliberately intended, just plain sharp.

On the positive side all this does give us an amusing thread.

Regards
Paul

[Pac man]

Is this plane a prince or a pauper? Diamond or dog?

[mattocks]

Whatever it is, for $150 postage he'll probably be delivering it personally, even from the U.K.
Frank

[seanz]

Bushmiller; an amusing thread indeed.


Just saw this listing on Trademe.
Bookbinding press for bookbinders

Yep, it's in Christchurch.


I try not to have my expectations too high with TM listings, most people are amateur traders after all.

[pmcgee]

Is this plane a prince or a pauper? Diamond or dog?

Maybe $40 or $50 for that poor example ... $160!!

I've bought a few nice, well worked infills at the $80-120 mark.

"Tell him he's dreamin' "

Paul McGee

[ian]

Or, are they moving away from their earthquake damaged house and may have had the most stressful 18 months of their lives? Doesn't do a lot for mental acuity.

You could google the seller's location, add the word "earthquake" if it's not too much extra effort......

Hi Seanz
I've no need to google "earthquake" we were in the process of planning a move to CHCH when the first quake happened

Whilst, I fully appreciate the stress involved in a forced "sell up" in order to move on -- I and my sisters are currently going through a similar process ourselves -- and that this particular seller might be one so encumbered, the rational part of me still says, if you don't know what your trying to sell (and hence it's approximate value), you end up either giveing it away or throwing it away.
The emotional effort to collect $2 on an item worth $5 is just too much

[seanz]

if you don't know what your trying to sell

You do what everybody else does here......"chuck it on Trademe for a dollar, someone will buy it".
Those auctions are half the fun of Trademe.

Sorry you didn't get to move to Chch. You should reconsider, it's still much less "intense" than Sydney is.

[seanz]

Aww, crud! The "Unusal thing" auction went off at 7:30am, so I missed it.

Only $21.

[NZStu]

Aww, crud! The "Unusal thing" auction went off at 7:30am, so I missed it.

Only $21.

Only? I'm pretty sure I've seen new ones for $25 at the Mega. I'll have to have another look...

[pmcgee]

Real bargain here ... two saws in one

RARE ANTIQUE H. DISSTON & SONS "Philada" DOUBLE EDGE Saw - 26" AND 14 3/4" BLADE | eBay

[ian]

Looks like the current owner might be a metal worker, I don't think I've ever seen a steel 10ths and 100ths rule

[seanz]

Steampunk Stormtrooper blaster Brasstech E-11 | Trade Me

Oh, good grief.......

[veloaficionado]

What sort of Star Wars nerd would go for one of these? One living a fantasy life in the Mallee backblocks pretending to be on Tatooine?