If you want a good chuckle take a look at some of the auctions on Cbid, and compare to the same thing on CI (they're the same company). Every once in a while some fool bids higher then the CI price on a lot.
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If you want a good chuckle take a look at some of the auctions on Cbid, and compare to the same thing on CI (they're the same company). Every once in a while some fool bids higher then the CI price on a lot.
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Yep paddy, that's one small example of the tens of thousands that can be found on fleaBay at any given time. Of course the owners of fleaBay have no desire or motivation to do anything about it because the more the "final value" is the more they make.
I'm becoming increasingly disgusted with fleaBay including it's sister scum site PayPal with the "fees" they rape people with.
Fortunately, most smart shoppers are savy enough to do google searches on what they want to buy and if they find the best deal on fleaBay then great BUT if some gouger is charging $150.00 for a $25.00 item, hopefully it won't sell.
Heck, we had a guy on the Pachinko site post one of his pachinko machines on Craig's List. He was asking $28,000.00 for a machine that was worth a couple of hundred bucks at best. Then he actually signed up on the site and justified his bull$hit with "Hey all I have to do is find the buyer who's willing to pay." I told him my $10,000.00 Jaguar was worth $306,000.00 and if he wanted to trade me his pachinko machine plus $280,000.00 we'd have a deal.
HERE'S THE LINK just for laughs.
Ah crap, his Craig's List posting expired but all you need to know is his price was $28,000.00.and he even explained that it was used but in very good condition, only played by his kids a few times, blah, blah....
Last edited by CoventryCat86; 01-17-2010 at 12:44 AM.
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Christ, I had to google" pachinko machine" I had never heard of it before. I'm stuck back in a 10 year time warp!
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
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Capitalism=charging whatever someone is dumb enough to pay. Not charge a fair price. And, hey, if someone is dumb enough to pay that much, why not charge it?
I think the perfect example of this is fashion. I look at what clothes cost that my wife buys and I go, a t-shirt is how much?!?!?! But, if women are dumb enough to pay it, why not charge it.
Last edited by BigMacFU; 01-17-2010 at 12:48 PM.
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