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eBay really is a great environment for the buyer these days; high seller customer service standards are enforced much more rigorously, sellers can no longer leave negative feedback and, best of all, in October this year, eBay introduced seller-paid postage in the “media” categories (books, CDs, vinyl, DVDs etc) in order to compete with sites like Play.com and Amazon.
All of which means that you should be able to understand why I occasionally tear my hair out when I get an e-mail like the one I received at 10.27 last night. Buyer “mrstyles101″ sent me the following message -
“Hi
If you wanna let this go for any cheaper, I’ll take it.
Let me know
Thanks”
The price of the record in question? £4.19.
Already reduced in my pre-Christmas sale by 30%.
With free postage costing me £2.50 plus the cost of packaging materials, not to mention the 15% I pay to eBay and Paypal.
FACKING unbelievable.
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The sooner we get a windfall tax on you money-grabbing ebay bastards, the better. Your kind make me want to vomit blood.
I agree, Tafkass, there are some awfully cheap bastards out there. Without knowing the name of the album in question, however, I don’t think I could offer an opinion on “mrstyles101.″ I mean, are we talking 70s disco or 50s rockabilly (you probably get my drift)?
Welcome back, K - hope all’s well in the Land of the Rising Deflation.
I may well be missing a musical reference in your post, so I’ll furnish you with a literal answer instead. The disc in question was a wacky crazy dub ‘n’ bass techno hardcore wicked dance “choon” by an “artist” called “Well Ard”. I bought about 300 of these dance 12″ singles for £30 earlier in the summer; the discs were mostly from the golden age of rave (1991 / 1992), and they’ve been one of the best investments I’ve ever made; so far, I think I’ve made over £700 from selling them on (to people other than mrstyles101, obviously.)
However, to a man, EVERY single purchaser of one of these records has been a mid-30s ecstasy drop-out desperately in search of a reminder of old times. He (’cos it’s always a bloke) will always insist on calling a vinyl record a “tune”, and he will, without fail, expect me to share his rabid enthusiasm for the annoying, repetetive slab of lo-tech crap that he’s just paid £50 for - despite the fact that I’m obviously, as sjulk1 rightly points out above, just a “money-grabbing ebay bastard” record dealer. People are strange…
and goodwill to all men…..
Postscript to this one - “Mrstyles101″ subsequently bought the item concerned in my 35% off New Year sale - for £3.94. Serves me bally well right.