Oh My Gosh, Your Kidding Me! *lol*

[kavi1030]

Search "Mystery Box" on Ebay.

[southern*sweet*tea]

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-bonus-prize-giveaway-raffle.html

And people actually buy them, too

[pikabo-icu]

Anyone that would buy those is a dam fool..

No INAD happening there.. DOPE

There's even a 420 Mystery Box.. 

[a*river*runs*through*it]

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

Anyone that would buy those is a dam fool..

No INAD happening there.. DOPE

There's even a 420 Mystery Box.. 

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LINK PLEASE!!

[pikabo-icu]

LOL  

#152648330284  enjoy.. 

[a*river*runs*through*it]

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

LOL  

#152648330284  enjoy.. 

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Think he'd sell me all of them?

Of course, you won't see me for a few days after delivery.

[stonevintage]

This is not new.  There was a woman here, about 8 years ago that listed these mystery box items every week.  She guaranteed any lookup ebay value on solds ... what the buyer received would be worth at least double that.... She made thousands, selling every mystery box she listed and that went on for years.  Noting but happy resellers.

Of course, that was back when shipping fees weren't so expensive.  Still.... I might do it.  Once you've built up your rep like she did.... it's all golden.

[a*river*runs*through*it]

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@stonevintage wrote:

This is not new.  There was a woman here, about 8 years ago that listed these mystery box items every week.  She guaranteed any lookup ebay value on solds ... what the buyer received would be worth at least double that.... She made thousands, selling every mystery box she listed and that went on for years.  Noting but happy resellers.

Of course, that was back when shipping fees weren't so expensive.  Still.... I might do it.  Once you've built up your rep like she did.... it's all golden.

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It's only golden until you get kicked off ebay for listing them.

[ymeagainlord]

And yet eBay's bots refused to let me list a kid's open "mystery bag" toy (yes that's what they're called ON the packet) and I had to list it is an open blind bag instead.

[stonevintage]

Please point me to that regulation.  Thanks!:)  I've been doing "junk drawer lots" where everything is "as is" for  years.  How is this different?

[ymeagainlord]

Junk drawer lots are NOT 'mystery boxes".

The junk drawer ones actually show what you get in the listing. And the ban on "mystery boxes" IS on the not allowed list. And if you don't believe that check out post 2

[stonevintage]

So a photograph of the items... not described in body of text is sufficient?   Lol, will a bleary off focus cell phone shot (1 picture provided) take care of that?:)

I'm not saying this to rip off the buyers.  IMO these listings are catering to those in hot local resale markets only.  If I buy an item for .50 or .75 and I sell them to a buyer that knows he can resell for 4x, and if I sell and cater specifically to resellers.......

I sell a lot to resellers by proper grouping of non-sellers to make the numbers make sense to resellers.  If 1 photo is the only difference... I can do that:)

That can be 1 photo lookng down on a box from 2 feet away....

[Anonymous]

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@pikabo-icu wrote:

LOL  

#152648330284  enjoy.. 

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8 sold.

[stonevintage]

I purchased three bags of charcoal brickets today.  These, crushed and broken down into tiny packets act as room deoderizers for everything from cooking smells, to BO to smoking odors.  

I  bought 21lbs for 12.00.   If this is what they're doing (tiny packets)  someone's making a lot of $$$.

That's called thinking outside of the box.

[stonevintage]

132281322763seller selling... off their reputation.