Comment on EBAY Prices
JohnEdwa@kbin.social 9 months ago
Because why not, maybe someone will buy it from you as they don't know better, and you cash in the profit. It doesn't cost anything to post something on eBay after all.
Some of them don't even have the thing in the first place, if someone buys the listing they go get one from Amazon or a local shop and send it.
If you actually want to know what people are willing to pay for something though, look at the completed auctions.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Even beyond the realm of automated retail arbitrage, I am continuously shocked at the literal junk people will pay money for on eBay. I work in the durable goods industry and I have random odds and ends… extra components, parts, boards, etc. that just accumulate here so sometimes and I don’t know what to do with. So I slap them on eBay and without exception some punter buys them. Probably under the expectation that they’ll be able to flip it for a profit. But I have to figure that most consumers have no idea what the random handles or control boards or what have you would even fit. But someone wants to pay me to take my trash out of here, so… I guess I’m not complaining.
And then I see the retro nerd youtubers paying big bucks for hilariously out of date PC components. One of these days I should dredge that old milk crate full of ISA and AGP cards out of the basement and post them all.