I sold a lot on ebay. Sellers have no need for putting high prices on an item like that. The issue of inventory is handled by indicating internally your number you want to put, and as they sell at the individual competitive price, the listing stays up because of your inventory.
You're missing his point. He's saying they inflate the price to prevent someone from buying it, because it is out of stock. They want to keep the listing up, so they do this.
I had a store on Etsy before in the past. At that time it was only cents to relist an item. When I first got there, it felt like a charming community of creative people selling unique handmade items.
One of the reasons I left was Etsy was becoming WOKE. People were complaining about sex toys, bondage equipment, LGBT, nudity, etc. showing up as being recommended for them when they had never looked at these kind of items before. And you couldn't get rid of it. Stores were selling manufactured candy bars and knock-offs from China. LGBT and ethnicity were being pushed hard and made up most of the executives. On the front page, sometimes every model was black.
A long time ago, I bought a coffee mug with Based Stickman on it. You can't find anything about him anymore and the history of my purchase was erased.
They charged very successful stores enormous fees so often for being listed on Google when they didn't ask to be, it wasn't even worth it, and stores moved or closed. They made a lot of stupid management decisions that hurt sellers and wouldn't work on things that mattered, like computer glitches, i.e. wonky "shopping carts". Everything became corporate, following Amazon and they didn't care about sellers in the least.
I did not notice a quick "de-code" of the listing. The wayfair listings initially were an item but there was a humans name in the title.
Could be the same here, but what is the code key.
Adding...I did just go to https://www.lesjofors-automotive.com and search for 4412138 and 4412113, no results.
I was a USA-based ebay seller doing extremely well for four years, then they let international sellers crush everyone with China prices. I knew then that they would sell out to anyone and had no actual ethics as a company.
If the "home-grown" goodie two shoes image of etsy is now ruined, certainly a giant shady operation like ebay is prime for exposure. They do love their importers and God knows what all that includes.
There is a built in excuse for these high prices given that these items are brand new and that 1985 is almost 40 years ago. You just don't find those kind of pieces anywhere in the world. Note that I am not defending child sex trafficking.
There is a LEGO equivalent in the form of set 10179, the first edition UCS Millennium Falcon. Just buying a "new" copy of the box alone would cost $575 while a new copy of the entire set sold for $1,800. Meanwhile, a used copy of the spiked radar dish can set one back $86. (This is the radar dish on top of the Falcon.) Keep in mind that this set was released in 2007 and was priced at $500.
I am in the LEGO "scene" if you will. Just because it is so ridiculous and the competition from Poland and China are producing great sets at half price.
These older sets are typically much better in terms of material and design. A lot of people buy sets to keep as investments. The fan boys really pay these prices for older sets, especially if they include the box and the box is intact. It is very much like collecting cards.
I honestly do not think anyone restoring a car, even one from 1985 would pay that amount for "original" springs. It makes zero sense. The only logical explanation to me is to keep the listing while low on stock.
The pedos can only communicate with certain words and I guess it would be hard to introduce new terms.
If you do want original springs from a car manufactured in 1985, there is a pretty good chance the part would be used. I think we are talking parts for a very rare car.
As for LEGO, I am a reseller and I laugh at much of the LEGO investment community. They collect many LEGO sets for investment purposes, but it is hard to tell which sets will skyrocket in value soon after retirement.
i search a lot of music equipment & at times, i'll see stuff that regularly sales for like $500, set to something like $8,999.
i figured it was the item just being out of stock & them just keeping the item "online".
although, i'm very aware of the etsy & wayfair pedo shit.
i would imagine there is no history of sold items at these prices. if it was some shady shit, im sure they would message directly & handle everything privately.
The reason I don't think eBay is a good place for illicit sales is that it keeps open records of final selling prices. You can search for completed listings to see the sales price history of anything. If you were selling anything shady, you want to keep your plausible deniability open and say, oops, that was an error, or that's just us keeping a listing online so it wouldn't get deleted. If you sell a ridiculous thing for a ridiculous price on eBay, however, the completed listing shows the price that was paid for any product sold by any seller. Other platforms don't reveal this, so the shady deals will not be on eBay for this reason.
This is literally so they can keep a listing active when an item is out of stock.
When the item is back in stock it takes much less effort to update a price compared to remaking a listing.
I sold a lot on ebay. Sellers have no need for putting high prices on an item like that. The issue of inventory is handled by indicating internally your number you want to put, and as they sell at the individual competitive price, the listing stays up because of your inventory.
You're missing his point. He's saying they inflate the price to prevent someone from buying it, because it is out of stock. They want to keep the listing up, so they do this.
Because being dishonest about the price is better than just saying the item is out of stock and expected to be restocked soon?
Placing the item out of stock will close the listing. Pretty sure it costs to list items.
So the solution is to put an incorrect price?
Got a source for that narrative?
Yes, because it prevents someone from buying it while also keeping the listing up. This is 2+2 sorta stuff.
Its also a downloadable image. How exactly does that run out of stock?
I had a store on Etsy before in the past. At that time it was only cents to relist an item. When I first got there, it felt like a charming community of creative people selling unique handmade items.
One of the reasons I left was Etsy was becoming WOKE. People were complaining about sex toys, bondage equipment, LGBT, nudity, etc. showing up as being recommended for them when they had never looked at these kind of items before. And you couldn't get rid of it. Stores were selling manufactured candy bars and knock-offs from China. LGBT and ethnicity were being pushed hard and made up most of the executives. On the front page, sometimes every model was black.
A long time ago, I bought a coffee mug with Based Stickman on it. You can't find anything about him anymore and the history of my purchase was erased.
They charged very successful stores enormous fees so often for being listed on Google when they didn't ask to be, it wasn't even worth it, and stores moved or closed. They made a lot of stupid management decisions that hurt sellers and wouldn't work on things that mattered, like computer glitches, i.e. wonky "shopping carts". Everything became corporate, following Amazon and they didn't care about sellers in the least.
But I do believe they are selling children now.
Yep you just put 0 on hand and reactivate when you get more. Easy peasy lemon squeezy
Yes, a lot of sellers do this.
Plausible.....hide the signal in the noise?
I did not notice a quick "de-code" of the listing. The wayfair listings initially were an item but there was a humans name in the title.
Could be the same here, but what is the code key. Adding...I did just go to https://www.lesjofors-automotive.com and search for 4412138 and 4412113, no results.
I've noticed this before.
I always assumed that they wanted to catch out people who weren't paying attention to the price.
Now perhaps I'm thinking what you're thinking.
Try, search for an older car model, sort the results from high $ to low.
I have never heard a plausible explanation for this.
It could just be money laundering.
Amazon has same problem. Bot powered price lowering and raising led to some crazy prices on things for awhile a few years back. No logic to it
I remember gun cases costing an unusual high amount a few years ago. that caused the ATF to get a hard on.
try buying in bulk truck oil filters for a free visit from the government.
Now that would not surprise me at all.
I was a USA-based ebay seller doing extremely well for four years, then they let international sellers crush everyone with China prices. I knew then that they would sell out to anyone and had no actual ethics as a company.
If the "home-grown" goodie two shoes image of etsy is now ruined, certainly a giant shady operation like ebay is prime for exposure. They do love their importers and God knows what all that includes.
There is a built in excuse for these high prices given that these items are brand new and that 1985 is almost 40 years ago. You just don't find those kind of pieces anywhere in the world. Note that I am not defending child sex trafficking.
There is a LEGO equivalent in the form of set 10179, the first edition UCS Millennium Falcon. Just buying a "new" copy of the box alone would cost $575 while a new copy of the entire set sold for $1,800. Meanwhile, a used copy of the spiked radar dish can set one back $86. (This is the radar dish on top of the Falcon.) Keep in mind that this set was released in 2007 and was priced at $500.
Nobody is buying NOS coil springs for an 85 Olds that cost more than the car was worth new.
Nobody.
And old cars, import export, and finding rare parts have been my sideline for 20 years now.
Nevermind that brand new here just means "a new product, not used or salvage"
The prices are a bit suspect. Maybe the coil springs are the code-word for children because they are so full of energy.
I am in the LEGO "scene" if you will. Just because it is so ridiculous and the competition from Poland and China are producing great sets at half price.
These older sets are typically much better in terms of material and design. A lot of people buy sets to keep as investments. The fan boys really pay these prices for older sets, especially if they include the box and the box is intact. It is very much like collecting cards.
I honestly do not think anyone restoring a car, even one from 1985 would pay that amount for "original" springs. It makes zero sense. The only logical explanation to me is to keep the listing while low on stock.
The pedos can only communicate with certain words and I guess it would be hard to introduce new terms.
If you do want original springs from a car manufactured in 1985, there is a pretty good chance the part would be used. I think we are talking parts for a very rare car.
As for LEGO, I am a reseller and I laugh at much of the LEGO investment community. They collect many LEGO sets for investment purposes, but it is hard to tell which sets will skyrocket in value soon after retirement.
Is it wholesale price to buy a whole lots at a time?
Trump NFT could cost almost $10k if buy 💯
i search a lot of music equipment & at times, i'll see stuff that regularly sales for like $500, set to something like $8,999.
i figured it was the item just being out of stock & them just keeping the item "online".
although, i'm very aware of the etsy & wayfair pedo shit.
i would imagine there is no history of sold items at these prices. if it was some shady shit, im sure they would message directly & handle everything privately.
The reason I don't think eBay is a good place for illicit sales is that it keeps open records of final selling prices. You can search for completed listings to see the sales price history of anything. If you were selling anything shady, you want to keep your plausible deniability open and say, oops, that was an error, or that's just us keeping a listing online so it wouldn't get deleted. If you sell a ridiculous thing for a ridiculous price on eBay, however, the completed listing shows the price that was paid for any product sold by any seller. Other platforms don't reveal this, so the shady deals will not be on eBay for this reason.
I do find the good dirt here on GW. I had no idea of this.
But there's no pictures of kids in them
Have a gander at these items: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=les+jours&atb=v404-6__&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-w9Bae9N355Q%2FVwZ_zl6nvTI%2FAAAAAAAAB50%2Fv_S-KyhcqqMchFD8hX0L57yDH4l1XnUMQ%2Fs1600%2Fjeu_jours_semaine.JPG
Something ain't right and it is going to be a doozy when all is found out!!!