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| madrocsz:
There are a few other factors for inflation as well, at least when it comes to online shopping on ebay. Assuming your selling a video game for a buy it now price, ebay takes 13% off to total sale price and shipping price, not to mention any listing fees. Thats flat out ridiculous in my opinion. That said, many people compensate for that by jacking up the price. Also too shipping costs have been getting higher and many people don't know cheaper ways of shipping. Then paypal takes their %. To your point, not all games are expensive, but as I mentioned the shipping concern, a game can be worth 7$ but someone will list it for 7$ with 4$ shipping, to me this no becomes an 11$ game and well beyond what I feel it is worth. Game prices are crazy like the stock market, while I collect older stuff I also keep up with current systems and its nuts to see a game come out for 60$ and in two week five different places will have it for different prices and promotions. Used game sales a a bit more tricky on newer titles simply with all the online passes and packed in DLC. I enjoy the market management, its probably my biggest draw to collecting as I have managed some amazing deals simply by doing research versus just going to purchase it for full price. Its just when I try and collect some older items I constantly have this sense of "well, I better get it now, 2 months from now it will be twice as much" and its rather annoying. |
| wiggy:
--- Quote from: madrocsz on August 15, 2012, 01:06:49 PM ---There are a few other factors for inflation as well, at least when it comes to online shopping on ebay. Assuming your selling a video game for a buy it now price, ebay takes 13% off to total sale price and shipping price, not to mention any listing fees. Thats flat out ridiculous in my opinion. That said, many people compensate for that by jacking up the price. Also too shipping costs have been getting higher and many people don't know cheaper ways of shipping. Then paypal takes their %. --- End quote --- I prefer selling on Amazon. WAAAY less headache. Plus, eBay buyers are a complete pain in the ass. If it's not there in like 5 days, then they get all bent out of shape. I just had one person exclaiming that they were going to file a claim if the item didn't arrive the following day. It would have been 7 days on that following day, which was a Saturday. I have a handling time of 3 days included in my listing, plus I can't ship it after 2 pm on Saturday (and he bought it well after 2), plus I obviously can't ship on Sunday. I shipped Tuesday. Still within my 3 business day handling window and I still have to deal with his pissed of PMs and threats. He can't even file a claim until it's been 2 weeks. Also, eBay now dictates what you can charge for shipping if you use their pre-filled info crap. I sold 8 PS3 Sharp Shooters and 10 PS3 Active 2 games. On every one of them I lost money in shipping costs. As an example, the Sharp Shooters were listed for 22.99 with $6.00 flat rate shipping, no matter what service I offered. Here's the breakdown for each of these transactions: Sale price: 22.99 Shipping Cost: 6.00 Total: 28.99 eBay insertion fee: .50 eBay final value fee: 2.99 eBay shipping fee (this is bullshit by the way and wasn't how it worked years ago): .73 PayPal fee: 1.43 Shipping: 6.00 + Shipping difference (avg): 3.00 (shipping via USPS parcel post varied, obviously. The difference ranged from about 7.50-12.00) Total fees (including postage due): 14.65 My net: 14.34 That's 62% of my listing price. Complete horseshit if you ask me. The shipping BS is what really fucked me. I paid 10.76 for each (which includes sales tax). That means that I made a measly 3.58 for each of the 8 that I sold. Here's the kicker. There's one that's on its way to Arizona and has been stuck at a Pennsylvania sort facility for over a week now. I may just refund the transaction just so that I don't have to deal with all the BS that will likely come from it essentially being lost in transit. If I do, that means that I will have made 35 motherfucking cents on the whole deal. Now I remember why I stopped using eBay to sell about 7 years ago. Fucking bullshit. So, as far as sellers hiking up their prices, you can probably see why now. OK, I'm done ranting. |
| gru3som3rick:
Holy crap Wig, selling through eBay sounds like a NIGHTMARE. I was considering selling some extras I have through eBay, but SCREW THAT! I feel for you on that sharpshooter mess. |
| wiggy:
It sucks sooooo bad. It used to be affordable and painless. They even make it a pain in the ass to post your own hosted images now. I can never get my photofuckit images to show up. It got too big, bloated, & corporate. I'll stick with Craigslist from now on. Speaking of, I love how varied CL pricing is. Sometimes you find deals that are almost too good to be true, other times you find a loose, yellow-as-hell SNES with chipped corners for $450. No joke. There's a local listing and the guy insists that he sees them go for "500 or more without the box and 1K+ with all the time." One word: Douchenozzle. |
| gru3som3rick:
--- Quote from: wiggy on August 15, 2012, 03:22:50 PM ---It sucks sooooo bad. It used to be affordable and painless. They even make it a pain in the ass to post your own hosted images now. I can never get my photofuckit images to show up. It got too big, bloated, & corporate. I'll stick with Craigslist from now on. Speaking of, I love how varied CL pricing is. Sometimes you find deals that are almost too good to be true, other times you find a loose, yellow-as-hell SNES with chipped corners for $450. No joke. There's a local listing and the guy insists that he sees them go for "500 or more without the box and 1K+ with all the time." One word: Douchenozzle. --- End quote --- I see this day in and day out. There's a guy on there selling a loose copy of Conker's BFD for $250, which is INSANE. I just recently bought a near mint Dreamcast with 1 Arcade stick, 2 controllers, 2 memory cards, and 15 games (which included PERFECT copies of MvC 1 & 2, Soul Calibur, Power Stone, and many other gems) for $25. You're not kidding when you say it varies. |
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