@6345.xsnrgy wrote:
I was browsing Ebay and saw a tail lamp for a "car", the vehicle is not important other than the seller is basing its price on the cars exotic type.
Now the seller wants around AU $1700 for ONE USED tail lamp.
I checked on a website for the price of a NEW GENUINE part - you can buy a PAIR of tail lamps, NEW-GENUINE, for only AU$1600.
How do these theiving scum get away with this?
It does sound like a rip-off price, if you're talking identical tail lamps.
I think though that if I were needing any car part that cost that much, I'd be looking at the new price first and basing my second hand buying in relation to that. It's a lot of money (to me) so wouldn't be an impulse buy.
There are a few sellers, usually not what i would call the experienced sellers or those who run a small business-more the mum & dad home seller, who do ask over the top prices for their second hand stuff. You're possibly a male (given your interest in tail lamps, although I know some women are car enthusiasts too) but back in about April/May I saw this overpricing happening big time with people selling second hand thermomixes, and asking $1800 for them. At that time there was a massive clearance on and the new TM5 ones were selling for hundreds less than that, with extra bonuses.
So why do sellers do this? One reason could be ignorance. Maybe they haven't bothered to even check current new prices.
Maybe they have an inflated idea of the worth of their own stuff. I have struck friends like that, who expect top dollar for very tired, jaded Tupperware pieces. They say 'But it was very expensive when i bought it". Which was back when Noah was a kid.
I shake my head too but the reality is that usually, if it is grossly overpriced, it probably won't sell.
I wouldn't say the majority of sellers are thieves, the home sellers are probably just overly optimistic or inexperienced and quite frankly, they are in the minority on ebay these days anyway, it's almost wall to wall shop sellers.
