Don't you just hate it......

[gtx6970]

Yep, the moral to eBay is if an item sells for more then your willing to pay. wait a week ( sometimes more , sometimes less ) there WILL be another one.

As a rule if its something hard to find or rarely shows up on there . And yet,,,When one does show and sells for insane money. I guarantee another one , or 2 or 3 will show up soon, sometimes the same day. And it RARELY brings anything close to the 1st ones sale price.

 

When I see an item that catches my fancy and I wouldn't mind having it. I'll throw a bid and see what happens , sometimes i win , sometimes I loose.

But if I REALLY want it, I bid at the last few seconds . Again if I get it fine, if not . that's fine as well. ( see above )

 

case in point. I wanted a clean builder 59 Fury kit. But they were consistently going anywhere  from $200 to as high as $250 .

I waited and got one a few weeks ago for about $125 , including the original box and some of the custom stuff . 

There was one on a few days ago that was real dirty and the pictures were so so. But I thought about trying to grab it as well ( makes a nice trading piece )  But got busy with house / family and forgot about it. It sold for about $50

 

Trust me, patience is key when it comes to buying on Ebay.

For me  personally , I have a list of my wants on my desk, and I had them all saved in my Ebay saved search page . Over the past 18 months or so I've filled all but about 3 or 4 of them. Some I paid fair market for , some I paid well under fair market. But NONE did i pay over ,,,,A - fair market or B - my budget.

[slusher]

That's all too much work. That's why I only deal with BIN or "best offer" items.

That't how I buy on ebay...