The Ebay Topic

[tylerbgood]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Mystery Power Box is available on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BRAND-NEW-SEALED-Yu-Gi-Oh-TCG-Mystery-Power-Box-/322604297360?hash=item4b1cb6ec90:g:7csAAOSwbtVZSfHp

Is that a rare version or something? I see a bunch of them are available sealed on ebay. Doesn't even seem like a good price...there's 3 or 4 that have sold for $20 and less shipping in the last month. Am I missing something here?

For instance: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BRAND-NEW-SEALED-Yu-Gi-Oh-TCG-Mystery-Power-Box-/222586097185?hash=item33d32a4e21%3Ag%3AcDwAAOSwSzRZUsa-&nma=true&si=Cl8V938OS8gSrFPFVPDq4hjzK8M%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

[marioxb]

So, yeah, the point of this topic isn't really "hey I wanna buy this", but more "Look at this crazy item! Someone just posted their ditty socks! How weird!" or "Some one is selling that video game item really cheap/ expensive." "What! Nintendo World Championships for $5.00!" "Can you believe someone is trying to get 7 million dollars for a Game Boy Color?"

That kind of thing.

So I'll go ahead and quote myself (which was also responding to Alvin, just as I am now) here. Am I wrong? I mean, everyone knows eBay sells stuff. You don't need to remind us of everything they have for sale. In this topic, we only care about strange/ cool/ interesting/ cheap/ stupidly expensive auctions. Not every item Alvin wants to buy.

[wiggy]

^^^ this

[FireJoker54]

So someone bought a WIIU I listed but hadn't paid for it in 5 days. I sent him a message asking to pay by Friday or I'm relisting.

The dude says:
''Hey I can wait until December''
...
...
...

I replied:
''Wuuuu. I'm not gonna wait until next year to complete a transaction. It's already been 5 days...''

And he just responded:
''Ok''

What the fuck is even happening anymore. JESUS

[Arseen]

So someone bought a WIIU I listed but hadn't paid for it in 5 days. I sent him a message asking to pay by Friday or I'm relisting.

The dude says:
''Hey I can wait until December''
...
...
...

I replied:
''Wuuuu. I'm not gonna wait until next year to complete a transaction. It's already been 5 days...''

And he just responded:
''Ok''

What the fuck is even happening anymore. JESUS

Really?

[marioxb]

So someone bought a WIIU I listed but hadn't paid for it in 5 days. I sent him a message asking to pay by Friday or I'm relisting.

The dude says:
''Hey I can wait until December''
...
...
...

I replied:
''Wuuuu. I'm not gonna wait until next year to complete a transaction. It's already been 5 days...''

And he just responded:
''Ok''

What the fuck is even happening anymore. JESUS

Haha. What an idiot. I think it says you have to pay within 3 business days, doesn't it?

[Quazimoto]

So someone bought a WIIU I listed but hadn't paid for it in 5 days. I sent him a message asking to pay by Friday or I'm relisting.

The dude says:
''Hey I can wait until December''
...
...
...

I replied:
''Wuuuu. I'm not gonna wait until next year to complete a transaction. It's already been 5 days...''

And he just responded:
''Ok''

What the fuck is even happening anymore. JESUS

This is why I just let eBay handle that stuff.  They automatically open a case after two days - though I always put in my listings that if you need more time, simply let me know.  Some people are just straight up batcrap crazy in thinking they can buy something and pay for it months later.  Even had it where buyers get all pissy with me when the item doesn't arrive within couple days, even though they haven't sent payment yet.  You'll never figure out what makes some folks tick, so I just let eBay's automated system handle that crap unless the buyer alerts me to a delay.

[ShoothimNow]

Long story short, mom owns a bakery.  A little over a month ago, one of the wedding cakes had used the $25/yard rhinestones (bought 7-8 years ago) to border the base of the cake.  After the wedding was over, the family brings all the supplies that we used back to get their deposit.  The hall... apparently either threw out or stole over 2 yards of this rhinestone (the top tier and the complete bottom tier).  So, 2 weeks after this, we had another wedding that needed the expensive rhinestones border.  So looked around local shops, nothing.  Rhinestone websites... nothing on what we need (they only sell Acrylic which is CHEAP) or something potentially similar for an outrageous price per yard (mind you, for purchasing a new "type" of rhinestones, to make them all match, I need 3x sets of 2yard (6 yards total) strands of rhinestones).  Etsy... won't deliver in time.  So... hell... lets look at ebay.



I find a quality set like the ones mom has for $14/yard on ebay.  I specifically ask the person "I need to in total buy 6 yards of this, but in 2 yard strands.  For now, I only need about 2 yards to test out the quality of these rhinestones, do you have any 2 yard strands available?"  He gets back to me: "Yes we do, please remind us when you purchase that you need a larger available size."

Awesome, sweet.  So I purchase 2x 1yard strands, ask him for 1x 2yard strand.  Not complicated?  You know?

Item arrives in the mail.  Everything looks great.  except I look at it closer.  4x of the gems are missing in the strand (very noticeable once you see it).  On top of that, it wasn't even 2 yards!  it was 1.5 yards!  Was charged $28 for 1.5 yards, TF.  Contact the person, he gets back to me "oh we can send you another replacement yard".  Yes please, do so.  He gets back to me a week later: "It seems we don't have any yards left, and I'll issue you a 10% refund".  $2.80.  I mean I might be bad at math but: 72 inches, $28: you are looking at $0.39 an inch.  $0.39 x 54 inches (what we got) = $7.  Not only did they short me on the length of the yard, they shorted me of the refund.  And now they don't have any strands left, meaning I am really hoping that the final 4+yards I purchase from someone else are just as similar.

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Video gaming wise
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And now, I know its not ebays fault, but he could of atleast protected this $300 NES game better.  It's not like I bought a $10 item here dude.  The item made it fine, but damn did that scare me.

[wiggy]

People often mistakenly assume that packing an item SUPER tight is the best way to go.  If the item can tolerate being jostled around in the box a bit (and an NES cart most certainly can), then it's best to pack it a bit loose.  If that box was packed tight, then the packing material itself could very well have damaged the cart.  Leaving room for the box to deform should the USPS decide to curb stomp it is a good thing.

[ShoothimNow]

People often mistakenly assume that packing an item SUPER tight is the best way to go.  If the item can tolerate being jostled around in the box a bit (and an NES cart most certainly can), then it's best to pack it a bit loose.  If that box was packed tight, then the packing material itself could very well have damaged the cart.  Leaving room for the box to deform should the USPS decide to curb stomp it is a good thing.

I can agree with that... if the contents of the purchased NES Lot had the Box and all of its contents (which it didn't).  Meaning that the box had a good section inside where it had no support to protect from flattening.  If you have a Cart itself, psh, there wouldn't be much (if any) damage.  A box with with that much damage would scare anyone upon arrival, knowing that the NES box inside it that is very fragile that has an empty space the size of this piece of foam



It should have been packaged better than 2x newspaper pages.

[NickGeel]

I'm looking for someone from France who could help me out with a game purchase from Ebay.fr
The seller won't ship to the Netherlands. Maybe someone could forward it for me. I would really appriciate the help.

[sheep2001]

I'm looking for someone from France who could help me out with a game purchase from Ebay.fr
The seller won't ship to the Netherlands. Maybe someone could forward it for me. I would really appriciate the help.

I can help. Let me know the details.

[NickGeel]

I'm looking for someone from France who could help me out with a game purchase from Ebay.fr
The seller won't ship to the Netherlands. Maybe someone could forward it for me. I would really appriciate the help.

I can help. Let me know the details.

Thanks. I've send you a pm.

[wiggy]

People often mistakenly assume that packing an item SUPER tight is the best way to go.  If the item can tolerate being jostled around in the box a bit (and an NES cart most certainly can), then it's best to pack it a bit loose.  If that box was packed tight, then the packing material itself could very well have damaged the cart.  Leaving room for the box to deform should the USPS decide to curb stomp it is a good thing.

I can agree with that... if the contents of the purchased NES Lot had the Box and all of its contents (which it didn't).  Meaning that the box had a good section inside where it had no support to protect from flattening.  If you have a Cart itself, psh, there wouldn't be much (if any) damage.  A box with with that much damage would scare anyone upon arrival, knowing that the NES box inside it that is very fragile that has an empty space the size of this piece of foam

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mv4AAOSwxYxUyBox/s-l500.jpg

It should have been packaged better than 2x newspaper pages.

Agreed. Protecting a relatively fragile, 20+ year old box does take a bit more thought and material than some scraps of paper. Just one of those clear box protectors would pretty much take care of it. Those suckers are tough.

That said, the post office still manages to destroy stuff that's seemingly impossible to damage, no matter how it's packed. We recently shipped a batch of arcade sticks and one arrived with with a broken 1oz. Glass spray bottle (full of plastic cleaner/polish to help care for it). The bottle itself was in a heat sealed bag, inside a 2x4x6 box, surrounded in polyurethane foam inside a 8x10x14 box (the packaging for the stick itself), packed into a 12x15x15 shipping box filled with packing material.  The customer sent pics of the outer box, which looked as though it had been backed in to by a small truck. But the inner packaging/boxes were all perfect. Yet somehow they managed to toss that thing around hard enough to break that small vial. Luckily it only refined the small box that it was packed in, which was full of other important parts such as a USB cable, some metal keychains, AC adapter, etc.

[maximumbob54]

Am I the only one laughing at the fact that the USPS just about wrecked a box with a copy of Wrecking Crew inside???

Anyone?

Anyone....


I'll see myself out...  : /

On a more solid "eBay Topic" kind of note...  I was looking for a couple of OG Xbox component cables only to see they have apparently dried up.  It seems like just a year ago I had my choice of break out boxes or standard cables for component hookup both of which were original Microsoft branded products.  Now it seems they are rare as hen's teeth.  

Is the Xbox suddenly popular again?  Side note, I wonder if the same type of HDMI device as we've seen for the Dreamcast and Gamecube could be made for the Xbox...  Hmmm...