mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@farmalljr wrote:
@jeffreynaugh wrote:ive seen people asking insane prices for items. I recently tried to buy a chromebook motherboard some are asking 250 for it. I can buy a new chromebook for 100 dollars.
True. That was the point I am making. Too many sellers think they can ask and get ANY price they ask for junk they list. A used motherboard is not worth more than the whole chromebook. Too many seller have this same mentality and wonder why their store full of junk, gets no sales. The ones making sales are the ones who are not loading a store with non selling junk. Price to move or price to fail, that's a sellers choice.
Asking a price is not the same as getting that price. If the item sells at that price it means a buyer was willing to pay that price for the item. If the item doesn't sell, it means buyers aren't willing to pay that price.
So if a seller chooses to ask high prices and they get no sales, they won't last too long on ebay. They will cycle out of the site in time, just ignore them.
OK if you say so. If a seller sticks around, they are selling something and making money otherwise it doesn't make sense for them to even be here.
If you are asking do sellers have overpriced items, absolutely. But if that is all they are trying to sell as you have previously suggested, then it is unlikely they will be here for long unless it is some kind of hobby for them and they don't mine losing money every month [if they have a store]. If they don't and they are only listings enough to stay within their Free Listing, then it isn't costing them anything and in turn they are making anything, so they are just wasting their time or doing it for fun.
Yes, no argument, buyers will typically bypass items that appear over priced to them. Again, what is your point. No one is disagreeing with this.
Oh now sitting on inventory for awhile, again absolutely. It has happened to me. Thing is sometimes what doesn't sell at all this year will sell like hotcakes in the next year. It is all going to depend on what buyers are looking for. I've been here for 24 years or so and I've seen this happen many times. So if you have the time, many times that old inventory will actually turn in the upcoming months. But then of course there are those things that just never sell, no matter the price, high or low.
You have this in quotes "Ebay price", not sure what that means. Do you mean that Ebay is pricing something or that it is the seller's price on Ebay, or did you mean something else.
I sell on multiple sites and I have done that for years. Many of the things I sell on Ebay I sell on other sites for more money and in many cases faster than I sell them here. Buyers can be funny people sometimes. Once you think you have them figured out, you don't and you learn something new if you keep your eyes, ears and mind open.
