Why Does E Bay Suck?

[1978 NYB]

Most of the time the BIN price is 2 or more times the true value of anything being sold. Unless it is something that I can't get anywhere else I don't buy anything from EBay anymore.

 

[tbm3fan]

Most of the time the BIN price is 2 or more times the true value of anything being sold. Unless it is something that I can't get anywhere else I don't buy anything from EBay anymore.

There are some good dealers that sell stuff with a BIN. I look for 88-92 Mazada 626 NOS parts and there is one guy there who sells the parts when he comes across them. An original distributor from Mazda is $500 for a 91 car. He had one for $99 BIN and it made quite a difference in the car. Most though are unreasonable. I am the only guy, it seems, buying anything for a 67 Park Lane. NOS wheel covers are $80 a piece and when I got my eight, two sets of different design, they were $25 each. Got my 3 piece NOS grille for $30 each piece, which was 1967 price, sometime back. By the way if you think C body parts are tough to come by try my big Mercury. Only 12,000 4 door hardtops were made in 1967.

 

[live4theking]

I agree that it's changed from what it was in the beginning. The only time I really feel like I got ripped off was way back in the beginning and it was partially my fault. He didn't list the shipping cost and then must have been disappointed in what the auction brought. Something like $35 what was pictured was a nice 70 Challenger headlight bucket what I received more than a month later was aluminum scrap and he charged over $40 to ship it. So I don't buy anything that doesn't have the shipping spelled out in the listing and I check the feedback.

I bought a fair number of our Christmas presents off ebay this year and felt like I did pretty good. I bought one item for about 1/3 of what it was for sale elsewhere and it shipped free.

Selling is where you get the short end of the stick. Unless you wait for them to run some kind of promotion to sellers.