The Ebay greed 'button'

[gazzab]

It is fascinating to see people allowing themselves to get fleeced on ebay! I have been watching the watch auctions. So many of the watches are obviously fakes but the descriptions suggest they are real (eg photos of the numbers on the back of the watch) but dont actually state they are real.
They start to creep up to £200 or more as that bit of peoples brains starts to take control over the rational side of their brains.
I am not sure if I am against this fleecing approach - stupid people etc.... BUT I guess some people will actually get ripped off and that is wrong. A moral debate I guess.

[alexkp]

I entirely agree. I would estimate 85-90% of the prestige watches on Ebay are fakes.

Some idiots still seem to pay up to several hundred pounds for a "quality" fake.

Ebay need to police the category much, much more than they currently do (ie not at all).

[GingerNinja]

Not sure this just applies to watches - there general assumption (or maybe it is just the greed thing and the adrenaline surge from beating someone else) by nearly all ebayers is that everything on there is a bargain - definately not the case at all - I've looked at CD's & DVD's on there and been amazed at the 2nd hand prices people have paid - quite often a trip to online retails haev found me brand new copies of the same item for less than people have paid for a 2nd hand item in an auction.

[r988]

A fool and his money are soon parted

[planetdave]

Try going to a car auction.

*slaps head* I bought THAT!

[ZR1cliff]

GingerNinja said:

Not sure this just applies to watches - there general assumption (or maybe it is just the greed thing and the adrenaline surge from beating someone else) by nearly all ebayers is that everything on there is a bargain - definately not the case at all - I've looked at CD's & DVD's on there and been amazed at the 2nd hand prices people have paid - quite often a trip to online retails haev found me brand new copies of the same item for less than people have paid for a 2nd hand item in an auction.

Ive seen this with ordinary mundane stuff and sometimes the competitiveness of winning something becomes more than the price,i had this happen with a book i was selling that was valued around £10,in the end i got £30 for it as bidders locked horns,great if you can get it working in your favour.

>> Edited by ZR1cliff on Monday 20th February 15:31

[simpo two]

Simpo's rule of eBay:

Stuff you're buying ends up in a bidding war.
Stuff you're selling - doesn't.


Arse!

[agent006]

anonymous said:

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But what's their incentive? They make the same amount of money for selling a fake watch as they do a real one.

[wedg1e]

simpo two said:

Simpo's rule of eBay: Stuff you're buying ends up in a bidding war. Stuff you're selling - doesn't. Arse!

You need a mate to ghost-bid your stuff up.

Boollox, so do I

[cannedheat]

or a second account to do it yourself

[Plotloss]

r988 said:

A fool and his money are soon parted

The fool and his money were fortunate enough to get together in the first place...

[Yugguy]

These days people seem to have forgotten two simple rules.

If it looks too good to be true, it very likely is.
You don't get something for nothing.

20bhp resistor anyone?