Date   : Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:56:00 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: eBay Pricing Psychology Discussion - was Re:

2009/6/27  <me@...>:

> This is the market economy though, right? Something is only worth what
> someone else is prepared to pay for it. That is, by definition, the
> value of an object.

What I'm saying is that an untested 1993-era Apple Powerbook with no
charger isn't remotely worth anywhere near ?65, and the seller is
wasting theirs and everybody else's time by trying to sell it for
that. I doubt they could sell it at that price if they kept relisting
it continuously for the next 10 years. I paid a fiver for mine
including the charger, and I'd roughly estimate that a clean, tidy,
working one, with charger and non-broken screen hinges, would be worth
?25 at most.

2009/6/27 adam colley <hideki.adam@...>:

> Problem is you get the occasional seller who will go to great lengths
> not to send what you paid for when that happens and they really
> shouldn't, the contract works both ways, heh

I won an auction for an Amstrad PcW10 from somewhere fairly close, it
finished at ?1 and I was going to collect it in person. The postage
was fairly expensive due the size of the item, I'd only did on the
basis that I could have collected it for about a fiver in petrol. The
seller then told me that collection in person wasn't an option, at
which point I argued that he'd stated clearly in the auction that it
was. Then he offered that I could come and collect it in person if I
gave him a tenner for the privilege, which I politely turned down. I
may have been prepared to compromise and give him a fiver for the
item, but I didn't on the basis that he'd just made up new terms and
conditions after the close of the auction, which infuriated me,


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Alex Taylor