Do bargains ever exist on ebay ?

[flanajb]

I was looking at a record PT on ebay and it just so happened that the seller lives in the same town as me, so I dropped him an email asking what he would except for it. He tells me £500 and I think that it is a very good price so I send him an email asking him if I can go and take a look.

Bad news, I check ebay and the bids have started. I know it will most likely end up going for £750 / £800

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... NA:GB:1123

What I find staggering is that used Axminster PT have been known to go for 80% of their new value.

 

[frugal]

Micro economics in action.

Think of it the other way, if they were going for 20-30% of their new value then it would indicate that either they were highly over priced new; there is a glut of them for sale; or people do not think highly of them.

 

[Mike.C]

I was looking at a record PT on ebay and it just so happened that the seller lives in the same town as me, so I dropped him an email asking what he would except for it. He tells me £500 and I think that it is a very good price so I send him an email asking him if I can go and take a look.

Bad news, I check ebay and the bids have started. I know it will most likely end up going for £750 / £800

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... NA:GB:1123

What I find staggering is that used Axminster PT have been known to go for 80% of their new value.

Sometimes they do

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HOLZ-HER-PKS-D-WA ... oodwork_ET

For someone with 3 phase, or an expert like Bob (9fingers) who would have no trouble converting it to single phase it might be a good deal. Mind you, you would need the workshop to fit it in, and in 3 hour's the bidding could go up, up and away :roll:

For sale by the same person with 28 minutes to go:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DOMINION-CROSS-CU ... oodwork_ET

With 18 bidders and still at £143 someone can obviously give it a good home, at a bargin price maybe :lol:

A strange looking belt sander?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WADKIN-BURSGREEN- ... oodwork_ET

£83 with just over an hour to go.

Yes there all three phase, but if your handy with a screw driver and Bob's excellent motor manual, you may be able to find a bargain in the world of 3 phase.

The day of the regular really good deal's have long since gone from ebay, but if you are in the right place at the right time they are still to be had.

Cheers

Mike

 

[Chems]

If you were to buy this Jet 310 at the Buy it now price of 850 it would be a bargain:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... K:MEWAX:IT

 

[jimi43]

Yes indeed!

You just have to be patient...bide your time...look out for big things in your area so that postage is not an issue but is for the rest of the country and then bid accordingly...being prepared to do a little tarting up!

The hose alone has got to be what I paid for this!

8)

Jim

 

[Mike.C]

I was looking at a record PT on ebay and it just so happened that the seller lives in the same town as me, so I dropped him an email asking what he would except for it. He tells me £500 and I think that it is a very good price so I send him an email asking him if I can go and take a look.

Bad news, I check ebay and the bids have started. I know it will most likely end up going for £750 / £800

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... NA:GB:1123

What I find staggering is that used Axminster PT have been known to go for 80% of their new value.

Sometimes they do

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HOLZ-HER-PKS-D-WA ... oodwork_ET

For someone with 3 phase, or an expert like Bob (9fingers) who would have no trouble converting it to single phase it might be a good deal. Mind you, you would need the workshop to fit it in, and in 3 hour's the bidding could go up, up and away :roll:

For sale by the same person with 28 minutes to go:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DOMINION-CROSS-CU ... oodwork_ET

With 18 bidders and still at £143 someone can obviously give it a good home, at a bargin price maybe :lol:

A strange looking belt sander?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WADKIN-BURSGREEN- ... oodwork_ET

£83 with just over an hour to go.

Yes there all three phase, but if your handy with a screw driver and Bob's excellent motor manual, you may be able to find a bargain in the world of 3 phase.

The day of the regular really good deal's have long since gone from ebay, but if you are in the right place at the right time they are still to be had.

Cheers

Mike

EDIT, 3 bargain's, at least to the people who bought them, especially the panel saw.

 

[Tim Nott]

I got what I thought a bargain - an Elu biscuit jointer for 50 quid. Old but in good nick, and in my opinion better than any on the market today.

But peple go mad at auctions. When I closed my UK workshop (long before ebay) I got more than I paid new for a Morso mitre trimmer and more than I paid s/h for a dehumifier that had been lying around the workshop 'waiting to be installed' for 3 years.

 

[dickm]

Even the Ebay shops (as opposed to auctions, where folk go daft) and other online places aren't necessarily better than your friendly local. Needed a couple of spares for horticultural machinery recently, and in one case, the local engineers were half the price of online, and in the other case price almost the same as online, but no carriage charge.
So who is winning here?

 

[dicktimber]

The worry I have is that i buy something then it breaks down in a big way.
Now, we only hear about good buys not dogs....
You have no consumer rights and so I think it is a risk whatever you buy........
you pay the price and take your chance IMO

 

[awkwood]

I have used these both machines and they are old but very well mantained, so i agree somebody has got a real bargain
The sad part about firms like this ceasing trading, is that we have lost a very helpful machine shop and excellent timber supplier

Sometimes they do

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HOLZ-HER-PKS-D-WA ... oodwork_ET

For someone with 3 phase, or an expert like Bob (9fingers) who would have no trouble converting it to single phase it might be a good deal. Mind you, you would need the workshop to fit it in, and in 3 hour's the bidding could go up, up and away

For sale by the same person with 28 minutes to go:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DOMINION-CROSS-CU ... oodwork_ET

With 18 bidders and still at £143 someone can obviously give it a good home, at a bargin price maybe

 

[jorgoz]

At the moment there's a lie nielsen low angle block on ebay. I was hoping for a bargain, but the price at the moment is up to 90 quid and reserve price has not been met. Add shipping and you've got a buy that i wouldn't call a bargain for a used tool.

 

[Blister]

NO :^o :^o :^o :^o :^o

 

[tekno.mage]

You can get bargains on ebay if you are very patient and know a lot about what you are buying. I have done so quite often in the past (usually in the area of professional audio equipment and Mac computer parts). The trick is to only ever bid a maximum of what you are prepared to pay and then leave the auction alone and ignore it. Do this enough times and eventually you will win the item you want at the price you want to pay. I've won equipment that is worth around £200 second hand for £15-£20 more than once but it sometimes takes several months to do.

tekno.mage

 

[Racers]

Hi,

I got a rear shock for my motorbike for 99p a record warfinish 4 1/5 for £8 local collection as well!

Pete

 

[thomvic]

"Do bargains exist on Ebay?"

They certainly do, and in many other places.

A bargain is very personal. It is simply something acquired at or less than you exected to have to pay. A bargain to one man may therefore be very different to the bargain of another.

Richard

 

[warrenr]

I agree that patience and some research is crucial with buying on e-bay. Keep a record of prices (use completed listing on advance search) and try to grade the condition of common items so you are clear on the market price. Decide what you are prepared to pay and stick with it.

For example, I have been looking for a Stanley 271 small router for a few months and have bid for a few selectively. In good condition they commonly go for around £35. I bought one recently in vg condition with the original box for £21 supported by clear photos. The same day the same model went for £18 with no box and illustrated by one very out-of-focus picture.

I have seen people go crazy in the frenzy of the bidding and pay much more than the new price for something used; particularly for expensive items such LN or LV planes.

Regards
Richard

Regards
Richard

 

[chippy1970]

Yeah my router :evil:

a 96e went for £100 the other day with NO fence and No original Elu case mine had all these and went for £62 how the hell does that happen :? :?

 

[Gary]

Yeah my router :evil:

a 96e went for £100 the other day with NO fence and No original Elu case mine had all these and went for £62 how the hell does that happen :? :?

Maybe the £16 postage put people off. :roll:

 

[chippy1970]

Yeah my router :evil:

a 96e went for £100 the other day with NO fence and No original Elu case mine had all these and went for £62 how the hell does that happen :? :?

Maybe the £16 postage put people off. :roll:

Thats what it costs so why would that put anyone off GARY :roll:

and in fact its gonna cost more coz the guy whos won it lives in Northern Ireland.

 

[Gary]

Thats what it costs so why would that put anyone off GARY :roll:

High postage costs put alot of ebay buyers off, when parcel2go quote £6-99 plus vat, wouldn't you feel ripped off paying £16?