Does Anyone Here Shop On Ebay Anymore?

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by XoXgaming, Aug 3, 2024.

  1. XoXgaming

    XoXgaming Corporal

    I have not been on ebay for a few years.And it seems to have exploded into buy my junk please at extremely inflated prices.

    This is one item that did upset me. They all so wanted 1 dollar for these two items.Not even worth the gold.
    https://www.ebay.com/p/74061405?iid=285988129504

    They are selling a AMD K6 cpu two of them that for one is burnt to hell on the left side and most of the pins are bent on both cpu's.

    And i saw on another listing that some one was selling a thread ripper 7985wx pro for under 10,000 dollars. When amazon sells them new for 7,000 lol.
     
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  2. Cooper

    Cooper Mr Cooper

    I do sometimes. It is mostly Amazon I use, as their delivery is faster.
     
  3. Rogue-Buster-RJ

    Rogue-Buster-RJ Private E-2

    I used to but I quit after the last scammer tried to hose.....I mean cheat me on a motherboard purchase. He claimed it was a brand new board which cost about $80 more than I payed for the brand new one I had bought a couple years earlier. However, I needed the board so I bought it. Advertisement said brand new, 90 day warranty, they paid return shipping etc etc. I removed my board and installed the new one. First, it looked anything but new. It shut down after 45 minutes. It had to sit for about 15 minutes before I could reboot. After that is shut down about every 15 minutes or so. Turned out it was a hot spot on the board. I was using an ASUS M5A97 R2,0. The board I bought was an ASUS M5A97 R2.0 so I switched everything out. I spent the next month and a half arguing with the seller who used every excuse in the book not to accept the board back. I had to contact e-bay to get a refund and was told to keep the board. It's still sitting on a shelf somewhere. There was so much fraud going on on e-bay that I just stopped buying anything from there and have never regretted that decision. I've checked out the e-bay site a couple of times since and it's only gotten worse. Prices for junk has sky rocketed and now you pay outrageous shipping costs for just about everything.

    To me it just isn't worth it anymore. Just my opinion from a few years of buying from e-bay scammers and getting screwed without a kiss a few to many times.
     
  4. Wenchie

    Wenchie I R teh brat

    I'm mad at them at the moment. I got all excited that my dad's unopened PEZ set might be worth $90 but it's not.
     
  5. Fred_G

    Fred_G Heat packin' geek

    I still do for odd items I can’t find new.
     
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  6. Replicator

    Replicator MajorGeek

    Yeah, love eBay......
    It's been an online shopping fortress for as long as I can remember.
    Once you learn the platform, your shopping technique will prosper.
    They own PayPal so I'm not a fan of the push towards using it.
    20+ years of great service though, cant argue with that :)
     
  7. LauraR

    LauraR MajorGeeks Super-Duper Administrator Staff Member

    I've found iphone cases on there for both my phone and my daughters that you can no longer get. Brand new in apple box and a good price. No issues. I used to sell on it, but stopped a long time ago.
     
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  8. Cooper

    Cooper Mr Cooper

    My nephew loves buying old iPads. Unless Apple is still putting out updates for them, they will become relics. ☺️
     
  9. legalsuit

    legalsuit Legal Eagle

    Never shopped on Ebay. However, I do some online shopping on occasion only if it is a reliable website.
     
  10. Cooper

    Cooper Mr Cooper

    LOL...

     
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  11. Wenchie

    Wenchie I R teh brat

    I think mostly it exists to buy things people found out were popular, cleaned out all the stores, and resold at a markup. Or vintage things.
     
  12. Cooper

    Cooper Mr Cooper

    I used to get a guy called Robert to tape WWE events for me. He stopped doing it because he was pirating them. We used to have a really good chat about wrestling in 2003.

    Another guy I talked to a lot was this jillvre03. But that was years ago. This was also in 2003. He never bothered with RE talk outside of GameSpot. I think he knew what they could be like.
     
  13. Uber Nerdy Chicken

    Uber Nerdy Chicken Private E-2

    There are still some good offers on EBay. Lately I've bought a collection of 5 albums made by Thomas Fersen. It is very rare and are around 60 - 80 euros on Amazon but I got it for only 15. And they are in perect conditions. EBay is still ok but not for things related to electronic. Some people are selling their Windows 95 intel Pentium no GPU 200 gigs of RAM portable brick PC for the price of the quantum computer at IBM.
     

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