We've all heard the phrase "Buyer Beware", haven't we. Well, I believe in "Seller Beware", too. I've bought and re-sold tube amps for a healthy profit three times now. I've made money because I spent the time and effort to put up a superior auction. I turned a $165 eBay Fender Silverface (looked like shit; worked PERFECT) into a $285 sale with a new $7 power cord, an extra $5 12AU7 thrown in to sweeten the pot, and a very good description and pics The guy I bought it from three months earlier didn't spend the time and effort to maximize his sale price. Pure and simple.. The other two amps each paid double back plus some. If I don't do my homework, to find out WTF it is I'm selling, then shame on me. Each thing I've sold on eBay was something that I got without any bullshit. I never tricked anyone, lied, coerced, or did anything weaselly. Lying is what God made rope and tree limbs for. Oh, and I agree with other guys' criticism of ending the auction early because the seller learned something. Just add the correct description to your auction. Or, spend a buck on a second listing with the correct heading/title/etc., and put your first auction # in the body of the text. That's as lame as the "I don't know anything about ___________" - where you can tell that the guy just doesn't want to admit in writing to what a piece of shit the item is. Buyer beware... Enough rant. Time to sell some shit. Oh, yeah... GO SEAHAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
brad it is what it is. the rules are always changing. you either play the game or sit on the bench...mel
Im with Brad. People put the item on eBay because they think they can make more money there than selling it in the local rag. They post it with a reserve they are happy with. If one bidder knows what it is and can get it for a song, great. If more than one knows what it is theyll bid it up to what they think it worth and be happy. Either way everyone is happy. People that have no interest should keep their nose out of it.
The reason I correct the sellers if they do not know the year or the correct models is to help all of us that are looking for something and if its relisted for the correct year or model it will be easier to find to,for example someone had a 39 or 40 chevy truck listed as a 37 and if someone was looking for a 39 or 40 this truck would not come up and would of never known about it if they did not do a more serious search. I also seen a late 50s mopar listed as a late 40s so I told the seller and he appriciated knowing the correct year and it was changed and hopfully someone bought it who was looking for it but I never tell them what its worth as I want a good deal. Another thing that drives me crazy about ebay is the dumb asses who bid up parts more them what they cost new,for example headers for a 65 and up ford truck with a 460. They can be bought for less then 150.00 new and I seen people bidding up slightly used or rusty new headers for the same money,come on you idiots price the stuff new before bidding. Jeff
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