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The eBay Auctions / Facebook / Gumtree / Shpock 2024 thread

TBH, I'll be listing a ton of crap now, car-van-lorry parts, i'd kinda given up(other than the 80% offers when i saw them) as the best way to sell was postage included, and it just wasn't worth selling anything due to the time involved prepping the item, then packing and posting and seeing the £25 sale turn into £12 in your account
 
Ebay know what they are doing. Maybe what.... 6 months and fees in some way or another will be back... nothing like the old bait and reel em in ploy...
Dont get something for nothing nowadays...
 
Always found it a pain to only be able to list Friday to Monday every two weeks, with the 70% off offer (for some reason everyone else seemed to get 80% off !?).

And yeah I agree the time and effort it takes to list an item and send it, not worth it sometimes.

I sold a snowboard for £20 with £15 postage then struggled to find a courier who would take it due to size for less than £35! Then you got the problem of arranging collection or dropping off which is not an option with Evri light and large etc

Now I think If you end up with less than a tenner profit, might as well bin it.
 
Ebay free listing isn't going to make me use their site like I once used to. Over the last 25 years I've watched the constant 'improvements' they make to the search algorithms and user interface just turn the experience into an unbearable chore, so I just don't use them unless I absolutely have to (just like my aversion to using Amazon). I've probably gone from using it multiple times every day, making daily purchases to maybe looking at it once a week now and not buying anything.

The listings are just so full of trash these days. There are hundreds of thousands of scripted arbitrage bot sellers and drop shippers, all with random prices for the same items that make finding the best deal real pain in the ****.

Obviously the niche markets have much better connected communities now with forums, facebook pages, discord and private groups taking away what I guess was a large amount of serious money sales.

The peak days of me being able to buy a pinball table for £150 or a Roland TR808 drum machine for £500 have long gone, and while ebay had been a lot easier than buying all the FreeAds and Loot papers from across the country, trying to sniff out arcade cabs in the '90s like I used to, I'm not going to miss the trauma of what ebay is now!
 
It is one of the original scams. In the early 80's the promoter Harvey Goldsmith advertised tickets for the Rolling Stones at Earls Court. Many 100,000's of people applied and paid for tickets and all the monies were banked Only about 70,000 tickets were available for the dates and goldsmith knew this but banked all the money. 3 months later he repaid all the unlucky applicants and apparently made over £150,000 on hight interest "overnight deposits" on the deal. Clearly e****e are doing something similar
 
Nice Hurricane on eBay for sale. I bought it from Keith at New Forest Pinball and i sold it to the seller who is advertising the machine currently. Only problem i had was the main power board which was sorted by Andy at Pinball Mania back in 2020. Played superbly and looked the part too. If you like the game this might be worth a look. Only strange thing is the seller stated they bought it from a collector in the Newcastle area.............which East Kilbride (where i stay) is nowhere near ! I see the original manual i passed on ( after Colin Chapman gave one to me) plus a spare NOS spinning disc decal for the backbox is included in the sale.
 
Auction tomorrow that I've randomly seen (while looking for book auctions).
This one is a Doozie ;) (never even heard of that one before).
www.the-saleroom.com

Doozie Zipper Flipper Pinball machine by Williams (with original glass and paint) - In good worki

Bid Live on Lot 492 in the Antiques, Furniture, Jewellery & Collectables Auction from Littleton Auctions.
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also never heard of Touchdown.
www.the-saleroom.com

Touchdown by Williams pinball machine (with original glass and paint) - 1958/59 in good working o

Bid Live on Lot 493 in the Antiques, Furniture, Jewellery & Collectables Auction from Littleton Auctions.
www.the-saleroom.com www.the-saleroom.com
 
wilbers said:
Auction tomorrow that I've randomly seen (while looking for book auctions).
This one is a Doozie ;) (never even heard of that one before).
www.the-saleroom.com

Doozie Zipper Flipper Pinball machine by Williams (with original glass and paint) - In good worki

Bid Live on Lot 492 in the Antiques, Furniture, Jewellery & Collectables Auction from Littleton Auctions.
www.the-saleroom.com www.the-saleroom.com
also never heard of Touchdown.
www.the-saleroom.com

Touchdown by Williams pinball machine (with original glass and paint) - 1958/59 in good working o

Bid Live on Lot 493 in the Antiques, Furniture, Jewellery & Collectables Auction from Littleton Auctions.
www.the-saleroom.com www.the-saleroom.com
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They’ve got the year totally wrong on Touchdown, it’s 1967 not 1958/59. I’ve got one!
 
Fantazia2 said:
You still have to pay certain fees like reserve price, listing upgrades etc..

But instead of a reserve you could always set it high and take offers or dutch auction it, but discussing with a friend a few times he says hes noticed that sometimes an auction with bidding can result in a higher sale price than a fixed price auction.
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That's happened with me on synth sales many times. Think the 'watchers' must latch on to the wait and anticipation to win !
 
Sea witch has come up on FB, looks very original and just needs a bit of TLC, not bad price either for £1500

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Chris P said:
Sea witch has come up on FB, looks very original and just needs a bit of TLC, not bad price either for £1500

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That went quick. Scrap that Facebook playing up.
 
No iam not for sure but I think it's a time thing he wants it gone fast.. iam out anyways as be couple of weeks before I can get it collected so more than welcome to it especially since you've paid a deposit
 
Cheap Seawitch!
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lukewells said:
Damn I could actually do with some parts off that, but not worth a 12 hour roundtrip 🤣

Is there anyone in that area that could store it for a future date, or is visiting anywhere more northern at any point in the future?
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what bit's are you after off a Flash Gordon playfield?
 
AlanJ said:
Fooked. Ok if you need some drops
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It's probably got those bars in the drop mechs that stop the drops going too high, often missing on drop mechs I end up with. 😄

There's so many smaller parts on games you forget about that are actually quite hard to find.

See this drop mech we saw today, the bar in place. I nearly nabbed it 🤣
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