Ebay idiotic winning bids thread

Semantik

I'll start the ball rolling with the following, which was for a single left hand bar end shifter.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271789315034? ... EBIDX%3AIT

Complete pair of these brand new, warranted and with all inner and outer cables and downtube cable stops can be had for only £12 more:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/shim ... -prod34322

morstar

Money laundering!?

pblakeney

Someone only needing one shifter saved £12.

andy9964

Another laundering thing ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FIFTY-EURO-NO ... 2a4bbd676a

€50 @ more than £1 each, after taking postage into consideration

MountainMonster

Andy9964 wrote:

Another laundering thing ?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FIFTY-EURO-NO ... 2a4bbd676a

€50 @ more than £1 each, after taking postage into consideration

I had a look at the sellers profile, and he appears to be fairly honest in his practice. At least according to his feedback.

What does surprise me is the idiots paying through the roof for those. Do they not realise they are paying about £8 more than they should for that note at the very minimum?

andy9964

MountainMonster wrote:

What does surprise me is the idiots paying through the roof for those. Do they not realise they are paying about £8 more than they should for that note at the very minimum?

I first noticed this phenomenon a few years ago, when the missus stumbled upon ebay to get rid of some spare currency. There were several buyers (including the one that bought ours) snapping up currency, at rates that made it considerably more expensive than a local travel company

MountainMonster

Andy9964 wrote:

MountainMonster wrote:

What does surprise me is the idiots paying through the roof for those. Do they not realise they are paying about £8 more than they should for that note at the very minimum?

I first noticed this phenomenon a few years ago, when the missus stumbled upon ebay to get rid of some spare currency. There were several buyers (including the one that bought ours) snapping up currency, at rates that made it considerably more expensive than a local travel company

There must be something fishy going on. I highly doubt people intelligent enough to get on eBay to look for travel money would order that way.

Mr_Cellophane

Any auction can be like that. I when to a few computer ones a few years ago and printers were going for more than you could buy them for in PCWorld.

RideOnTime

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Felt-F54-road-racing-bike-brackets-limited-edition-/161643688640?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item25a2b6f2c0

Not idiotic just a bit suspicious.

So, I have never used Ebay but on my very first time I am going to sell my mother's bike. :shock:

capt_slog

MountainMonster wrote:

What does surprise me is the idiots paying through the roof for those. Do they not realise they are paying about £8 more than they should for that note at the very minimum?

Someone I worked with years ago was telling me about her holiday.

She was saying that on the plane on the way home the airline had offered to buy any excess foreign currency. I can't recall the rates or even the currency now but what she said went something like, "The rate they gave us was really good, 1.4 euros to the pound, we could only buy them at 1.2 to the pound while we were over there!" :roll:

So yes, possibly just idiots.

Giraffoto

I sold a pair of shifters on eBay once for more than they cost, brand new and delivered, from CRC! Madness.