Let's hear about the good side of ebay.

[GameFreak]

I know...ebay sucks! scammers and price gouging and broken stuff mailed a month late.
But there must be some amazing deals once and a while.
I got Bonk for 99 cents and couple bucks for shipping. Have you had an amazing deal on ebay? So let's hear about em (pc-engine or turbografx16). No negative comments allowed, if that's possible.

[Duo_R]

I bought a "New Sealed" copy of Drop-off. Unfortunately when it arrived it wasn't sealed, in good condition, but it was used. I filed a complaint on the condition issue. The seller made a mistake on listing and was trying to negotiate 50% refund, but he actually ended up giving me a full refund. So I got a copy of Drop Off (game case and manual) for free.

[Tatsujin]

nice duor the bad side, the game sucks about equal to eating some three days old horse shit.

[Arkhan]

nice duor the bad side, the game sucks about equal to eating some three days old horse shit.

with nothing to wash it down.



ebays great.  I love ebay.  I buy dumb shit on there all the time.

pins from the 80s, dumb computer shit, musical equipment, all kinds of neat stuff

[Lilgrafx]

Legendary axe $5 But thats pretty much standard

[Duo_R]

Three day old horse shit? ? ? Ouch! Lol

[TheClash603]

Ebay is all about luck.  Sometimes you can see a game worth $50 on BIN for $20, just need to check at the lucky time.

[BlueBMW]

search + newly listed + BIN = lottery

[SignOfZeta]

I get nothing but good deals on eBay and I've never been screwed. Once I bought a broken joystick, but I fixed it myself easily.

Bid what you want to pay. Once. Then walk away. You'll get an email telling you if you won or not.

If its a BIN and you don't like the price, then just don't buy it. Yes, it is just that simple.

No, seriously, it is that simple.

No, shut the f*ck up. It is that simple. "Sniping" is a crack head's concept. Just bid the max you will pay and learn later if you won or not.

I've been buying Neo Geo MVS mostly recently, nothing but deals. Rage of the Dragons for $26, Super Baseball 2020 for $18.49. I bought some games from a dude in Guadalajara for great prices. KOF 98 for $19.24, and Metal Slug 3 for $36.09. My trust in non-English speaking non-Americans was rewarded. Games were legit SNK, not conversions, and work perfectly.

[csgx1]

Thanks to a poor title listing, back in 2000 I won a huge Turbo Grafx CD system lot with like 40+ games(mostly decent games), PCE converter, 3.0 system card, 6 button controllers and a bunch of other accessories for $325 shipped.  I ended up selling most of the games and extra accessories alone for $475. 

With some work of reselling, I basically made $150 and kept the complete Turbo Grafx + CD system with controllers and 5 games in the end. 

I do agree, Ebay is luck of the draw most of the time.  Recently, I haven't had too much good luck getting any 'smokin' deals. 

[Arkhan]

I got my Turbo CD off ebay.

it was the turbob, the cd+sys2, keith courage, the hardshellcase thing, a controller+cords, and everything.....

110$, and I drove the hour to pick it up myself.

[Colossus1574]

I just like the fact i can find newer 2nd hand games cheaper then the ludicrious price Electronics Boutique or Gamestop has them for used which is next to no discount off a newcopy. Literally $5-10 cheaper off a new copy. I got NinjaGaiden Sigma 2 used for $24 when the store still selling a used copy for $40 still!?!?!

And one man's junk is another man's treasure, i wanted to clean out a bunch of Magic Cards (as mentioned on Blue's Sapphire thread) from the mid 90s. And i managed to get back around $272 bucks! not bad 

[Duo_R]

for newer games I just tend to check Amazon. I almost bought a used no cover Splatterhouse on Ebay for $35. Almost did it but got outbidded and stopped. The next day Amazon had it for like $25 and I hopped on it.

Speaking of Amazon - for Turbob it has some pretty dumbshit prices there. 

[shubibiman]

I get nothing but good deals on eBay and I've never been screwed. Once I bought a broken joystick, but I fixed it myself easily.

Bid what you want to pay. Once. Then walk away. You'll get an email telling you if you won or not.

If its a BIN and you don't like the price, then just don't buy it. Yes, it is just that simple.

No, seriously, it is that simple.

No, shut the f*ck up. It is that simple. "Sniping" is a crack head's concept. Just bid the max you will pay and learn later if you won or not.

I've been buying Neo Geo MVS mostly recently, nothing but deals. Rage of the Dragons for $26, Super Baseball 2020 for $18.49. I bought some games from a dude in Guadalajara for great prices. KOF 98 for $19.24, and Metal Slug 3 for $36.09. My trust in non-English speaking non-Americans was rewarded. Games were legit SNK, not conversions, and work perfectly.

Ditto. I never understood why everyone seems to complain about ebay. The only time I paid a game a bit expensive, it was all because of me as I wanted this game bad at that very moment so I placed a high bid but usually, when I get something from ebay sellers, it's always on the cheap side.

[DragonmasterDan]

Ditto. I never understood why everyone seems to complain about ebay. The only time I paid a game a bit expensive, it was all because of me as I wanted this game bad at that very moment so I placed a high bid but usually, when I get something from ebay sellers, it's always on the cheap side.

Ebay has its merits, but it also has its problems. Good deals can be found on ebay, especially if you are able to find auctions rather than buy it nows for what you're looking for.

The biggest problem with ebay and the reason everyone seems to complain about it is that 90% of the product is being sold by people who sell stuff on ebay for a living, it leads to very minimal differences in pricing and creates an artificially inflated marketplace for a lot of product as the only known price for something that doesn't turn up particularly regularly is what another seller has an item for sale for as a "buy it now".

That combined with ebay's apparent rise in fees against the seller (PayPal fees, listing fees) has led to a lot of people stopping using it altogether (both buyers and sellers).