ULTIMATE PAYBACK on a store that has burned me before

[Jmustang1968]

Looking a little further would've shown you the person who won it for $36.50 got lucky indeed. The other copies that sold within the last 14 days sold for $102.50, $59.99, $65.00, $90.00, $60.00, and one where a best offer got accepted on an initial $200.00 price tag, all before shipping. So I'm pretty sure the OP got a great deal when he found this for 20 bucks...

Yeah he may have found a good deal, I just fail to see how it is payback. If that store listed it at $60 or more it probably sits for a long time. Stuff like that takes the right person to really want it. Small bookstores don't get the exposure ebay ads do. They made money on it and OP got a deal. Seems like a win win for both.

[dsheinem]

I have no idea how much that book is worth but a quick eBay search under 'sold' listings shows the last one at $36.50. Perhaps those bidders just got lucky.

this. I see lots of inflated unsold auctions, but the recent one for $36.50 had 6 bids, so it wasn't some random scoop...

I don't think you have ("ULTIMATE" revenge or a pricey book) what you think you have...

Looking a little further would've shown you the person who won it for $36.50 got lucky indeed. The other copies that sold within the last 14 days sold for $102.50, $59.99, $65.00, $90.00, $60.00, and one where a best offer got accepted on an initial $200.00 price tag, all before shipping. So I'm pretty sure the OP got a great deal when he found this for 20 bucks...

With ONE exception, the others I see ended with "Buy it Now" closings, one bidder, or offers. That tells me that there are people out there who also think it has an inflated value, but when it is actually allowed to go to auction with multiple people bidding and a fair stating point, it ends much closer to $40.

AND...in the case of that one exception, the winning bidder is also someone with 13K bids on almost 6K items in the past 30 days (http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... e_ViewLink). Something is fishy there, to say the least

[TheRev]

Yeah he may have found a good deal, I just fail to see how it is payback.

The fact the Book is worth twice as much as the broken things they unknowingly sold me.

[dsheinem]

Yeah he may have found a good deal, I just fail to see how it is payback.

The fact the Book is worth twice as much as the broken things they unknowingly sold me.

except it isn't.

The book is worth $40-$50 in any reasonable study of recent value. Let's say it is worth $60 for shits and giggles.

You spent:

$20 (book)
$60 (N64)
$? (Saturn Game)
Total Spent: $80 + $?

You have acquired:

$60 book

Total value of items: $60 + whatever a broken N64 and scratched Saturn are worth.



Ohhhhh! PAYBACK! Burrrn!

[mjmjr25]

Yeah he may have found a good deal, I just fail to see how it is payback.

The fact the Book is worth twice as much as the broken things they unknowingly sold me.

Something is worth what someone will pay for it. Currently, that book is worth $20.

[TheRev]

Yeah he may have found a good deal, I just fail to see how it is payback.

The fact the Book is worth twice as much as the broken things they unknowingly sold me.

except it isn't.

The book is worth $40-$50 in any reasonable study of recent value. Let's say it is worth $60 for shits and giggles.

You spent:

$20 (book)
$60 (N64)
$? (Saturn Game)
Total Spent: $80 + $?

You have acquired:

$60 book

Total value of items: $60 + whatever a broken N64 and scratched Saturn are worth.



Ohhhhh! PAYBACK! Burrrn!

You were saying?

[dsheinem]

lol. I don't care how many sites you show me with inflated prices, When I look at actual "sold for" value your "good deal" becomes just "a start" for recouping the money you lost.

[mjmjr25]

Rev, a buy now is meaningless. That is like anything in any market, if you want something NOW you can pay an inflated price.

How many people do you think passed over that megaman book at $20 before you found it?

Go look at any item on ebay or amazon and they sit there and sit there and get relisted and relisted until one of the 7 billion people on the planet says, "I want it today!" If you want to do that, all the power to you, and then pay your postage / ebay / and paypal fees, and after 45 days once payment has cleared, let us know if you stuck it to the man!

I don't know what you expected to do with this thread. First off, the item should've been in the "look what I found" thread, and didn't require its own thread. Then you catalogue how you made some poor purchases on damaged items and didn't go through the rational process of checking on the item before purchases, or attempting to return once defective. Apparently, you despised this seller so much that you continue to shop there and are pleased as punch that you spent $20 ($22 tax included?) for something you could realistically expect to sell for $40-50, assuming it's in good condition? What a silly excercise.

[Jmustang1968]

except it isn't.

The book is worth $40-$50 in any reasonable study of recent value. Let's say it is worth $60 for shits and giggles.

You spent:

$20 (book)
$60 (N64)
$? (Saturn Game)
Total Spent: $80 + $?

You have acquired:

$60 book

Total value of items: $60 + whatever a broken N64 and scratched Saturn are worth.



Ohhhhh! PAYBACK! Burrrn!

You were saying?

Yeah you are making the age old mistake of assigning value for asking prices. How many times I have heard someone on craigslist say "This item sells for $100 on ebay" just because they saw a BIN listing for an NES for $100. In reality it sells for $25-$30

The vast majorities of sellers on Amazon have their prices jacked up.

[o.pwuaioc]

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