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Thread ID: 105923	2009-12-19 00:27:00	People paying/expecting ridiculous prices on trademe	Morgenmuffel (187)	PC World Chat

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841048	2009-12-19 00:27:00	Hi all We are shifting and getting rid of old furniture etc via trademe, (cheaper than hiring a skip) nothing ever goes above $2, some but not all has been in average to good nick, we need to get rid of the stuff so i am not fussed over the price. But all the things I am looking at to buy go for what i think are ridiculous prices eg a Nokia 3315 going for over $40, and old ram going for $60-70 bucks. I set out with a budget of $40 to get a replacement phone and some Ram to wake up the wifes comp (1200mhz 512mb) which is starting to struggle in the last few months (and yes i have cleaned the crap etc), I thought $40 was reasonable (if a bit scottish)given the price of new Basic phones ($60 - $70) and the fact that the ram would be pc133 and is probably no longer in demand, it looks cheaper to buy a whole new 2nd hand comp than to buy 2 sticks of 512Mb pc133. Am I being unrealistic or are peoples ideas of value on trademe really screwy. We just listed pile of Amigas 500s & 500+ and I see someone is selling a non working one for $350, which seems awfully high for a non-working comp even if it does come with loads of games which may or may not work. And on a different note, why the smeg doesn't trademe have a spellchecker built in, because the spelling of some people makes me long for txt speak.	Morgenmuffel (187)
841049	2009-12-19 00:42:00	But all the things I am looking at to buy go for what i think are ridiculous prices are peoples ideas of value on trademe really screwy. We just listed pile of Amigas 500s & 500+ and I see someone is selling a non working one for $350,. Yes but it doesn't mean they'll get the asking price. I sold an Amiga a while ago for $1 reserve. Think I got $1.50. A fair price I think, and yes it worked.	pctek (84)
841050	2009-12-19 00:49:00	RAM on Trademe is usually always a ripoff. But then it's also a ripoff brand new, which I suspect is where most people get their prices from.	Agent_24 (57)
841051	2009-12-19 01:15:00	I find TM much cheaper than a trip to the tip. I had a dead photocopier, in fact it was not just dead, in the words of JC, it was deceased, not of this world etc. It went for the $1 reserve, so I made 50c and it was carted away. Rarely, if ever do sellers asking outrageous prices ever get a sale, but you can't blame them for trying. There have been some one-off items important to me for which I would have paid 10 x my winning bid, or even more. I recently bought for $40 an item that I would have bid up to $600 to secure. I recently broke one of Mrs T's antique ornaments, and it was one of a matching pair, so you can bet I'll be paying whatever it takes if one turns up. The rarer the item of course, the more chance you have of getting a good price so there's no harm in testing the market. As for complaining about normal market prices, penny-pinchers and misers often miss out on really good buys for the sake of 5%. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
841052	2009-12-19 01:17:00	Just have to remember not everything is sold on tard me	rob_on_guitar (4196)
841053	2009-12-19 01:53:00	Trade Me is a great way to save a trip to the dump - never care what the price I get is.	Twelvevolts (5457)
841054	2009-12-19 02:04:00	I set out with a budget of $40 to get a replacement phone and some Ram to wake up the wifes comp (1200mhz 512mb) which is starting to struggle in the last few months (and yes i have cleaned the crap etc), I thought $40 was reasonable (if a bit scottish)given the price of new Basic phones ($60 - $70) and the fact that the ram would be pc133 and is probably no longer in demand, it looks cheaper to buy a whole new 2nd hand comp than to buy 2 sticks of 512Mb pc133. Am I being unrealistic or are peoples ideas of value on trademe really screwy. Its true-DDR RAM is quite expensive(espec. new). Because most manufacturers don't make it any more, there is no supply.....but still some demand so it gets quite expensive..	Blam (54)
841055	2009-12-19 04:28:00	The best indication is to search your item, choose More Options and look at the Expired items. Shows what actual sales got.	pctek (84)
841056	2009-12-19 23:49:00	But then you also get people that for what ever reason make multiple bids on a item with no countering bid and sometimes in blocks of several dollars at a time hiking up the price making it no longer worth considering. And then you have to wonder if some people don't bid against themselves as well. A few months ago, spotted something on TM that we wanted, several were for sale by the same seller, all $600 Buy Now but one was exactly the same but at a $1 reserve. Placed my one dollar bid and sat back. Day the auction was to close, a new bidder with no previous history of buying or selling wacked on a $599 bid.......... Bidding against him/herself.......... Some bargins to be had all the same and some times it is worth listing a otherwise dead item just to avoid the trip to the dump. We off loaded a dead washing machine to someone who was knowledgable in fixing them or using the parts and off loaded a trailer load of broken paving tiles to someone else who had a cutter and could cut them to suit his own land scaping. But other times, sometimes adding a few extra dollars and you could get brand new from the store complete with warranty and back up.	PinoyKiw (9675)
841057	2009-12-20 02:11:00	I mostly buy stuff on TM that needs repair or missing something. Got $250 Nokia phone last week for $25 because it had no charger, book and no SD memory card. A few months ago got expensive Italian MIG welder for $150 because liner was buggered, missing gas bottle reg worth $20.00 cost $90 got Auckland Welder repairs to fix looking at others its worth around 800 big ones.	prefect (6291)
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