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I decided to look on ebay for some 10 speed drivetrain bargains and it has me at a loss as to who is buying stuff on there. Latest in a long line of examples is a second hand slx clutch rear mech which sold for £39 plus £3 postage! It is 29.99 in Merlin for a new one! I keep seeing masses of stuff selling for the same and more than you can buy new from any well known retailer. Who are these people who pay much more for second hand stuff? Are people so busy now that they dont look around to give themselves an idea of how much stuff costs so blindly go on a bid rampage on ebay. Suffice to say i have now justified to myself that new stuff is cheaper and i look forward to some shiny stuff being delivered.
I can't remember what it was but I was looking for something, saw it on ebay with Free Click & Collect at Argos, costing more than the thing cost in Argos. #baffled
My Five is on there at the minute. If it doesn't sell I'm quite looking forward to splitting it up and seeing the comical prices I get for bits.
I sold one of those cheap £10 Superstar top guides for over a tenner plus postage last year. People are genuinely mental.
I would genuinely love to meet one of these buyers to find out why? I simply cant think of any reason why i wouldnt know roughly what parts cost or have looked on line for parts i need and taken note of the price.
They can't be arsed to shop around (even though the biggest effort is moving the mouse around). Ebay is a one-stop shop for everything (almost literally everything!)
sometimes, just sometimes paypal or ebay give you vouchers to spend
Wish a few more of these people bid on my stuff, I seem to attract skin flints and tyre kickers of the highest order.
There is one word to answer your question:-
Idiots.
yes nowdays time is more important than money.
time > money because you can make money with your time.
Can't spend so much time researching about an item and where to buy for saving only a fraction of the cost.
Wish i could attract more of these people. Selling a lovely mavic wheel with a hope hub atm. It sold couple weeks ago but had a timewaster not responding to emails. so having to relist!
I bought a red hope stem from eBay around 4 years ago for less than £20. Passed on to a mate for a tenner acouple of years back who later passed it on to another mate for another tenner. 2nd mate(fourth owner) stuck it back on eBay last month and it sold for £58!!! No idea how. He was genuinely shocked and felt a bit guilty but that's just the way actions go sometimes.
I'm moving house in a couple of weeks and did the dreaded dredge of the shed this weekend to discover what lurks beyond where no man normally dares. Turns out it's full of carbon isis and octalink cranks and more chainrings than any cyclist could possibly wish for. Probably at least half a dozen complete sets. They are now in a big pile along with other tat from a forgotten era ready for a skip run.
On the back of this thread I've checked completed ebay listing and there nobbers out there still prepared to buy this rubbish. It's actually worth money. Not best pleased if I'm honest - I now have to either drag it all out of the bins photograph it, write inane adverts, answer stupid questions, drag my arse to the post office and dick around with the inevitable claims refunds and returns... or lob them in the bin anyway knowing I'm throwing away real money.
I was more than happy in my ignorance - thanks! 🙁
I now have to either drag it all out of the bins photograph it, write inane adverts, answer stupid questions, drag my arse to the post office and dick around with the inevitable claims refunds and returns... or lob them in the bin anyway knowing I'm throwing away real money.
Or recycle them by giving them away to someone like [url= http://www.cyclerecycleuk.com/ ]http://www.cyclerecycleuk.com/[/url]
Or a bike jumble
And a Rudy Project head faring (with built in lens no less) from the 2000 Olympics (or was is 96, I forget), and the actual Giant tcr frame that was reviewed in cycling weekly in 97 and started the compact road frame revolution, and a giant carbon tcr that was a spare for the Once team from the 2002 TdF before it was launched.
It's a gift that keeps on giving of total tat that someone on ebay would buy if I could be arsed.
I wonder if anyone will buy this:
That looks like a placeholder ad for something they don't have in stock - to do with fees for cancelling and relisting, when changing the BIN price is free (or something like that).