Are ebayers outta their minds with the prices????

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67Dart273 said:
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What I do NOT understand is why now one has created a viable alternative, IE "ebay was in 1998"
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funny, there WAS a website called "likeits1999.com" that was an Ebay frontend that listed only auctions, no fixed price LED lights that "fits [insert search phrase here]" but its gone now. you can always just hit auction only up on top. I personally like Craigslist or searchtempest.com to search craigs across state lines. Sometimes Chevy or Ford sites unload Mopar stuff cheap because none of them want it.
 
part s listed on feebay at a fixed price, if I need it and the price is out of line to me, I just contact the seller, make an offer. he can relist it with my price at "buy it now". sometimes they accept my offer, sometimes not.
I buy very little of feebay and I am very conservative with what I will pay.

working on my 67 Bel 1 needed quarter patches, ( poor quality Sherman stuff), but will work... got some at good price with free shipping, beat anyone else's prices anywhere.
 
I agree, but there are some decent deals to be had. What kills me are the folks that have had the same buy it now listing on ebay for over a year. That is called a clue that you are way over priced. I have seen the same Weiand 318 poly intake on there for some time....too much $.

Also the used, beat up parts priced priced through the roof. Faded and rusty chrome taillight housings for $100...sign me up! And the new stuff...NOS headlight buckets for a 1962 Ply for $600....over 1/2 the price I paid for the vehicle. How about no.
 
This is all extremely common in the world of all classics, and mopars especially.

I have a 77 monaco 2 door ( b body ) that i swapped over to a 75 roadrunner front end. I posted a WTB ad on FBBO looking for the entire front header assembly. within hours i found one guy that wanted $500 for JUST the grille.....and another guy who said he had the ENTIRE front clip for $75...just goes to show how ridiculously "all over the place" the market is.
 
threewood said:
I agree, but there are some decent deals to be had. What kills me are the folks that have had the same buy it now listing on ebay for over a year. That is called a clue that you are way over priced. I have seen the same Weiand 318 poly intake on there for some time....too much $.

Also the used, beat up parts priced priced through the roof. Faded and rusty chrome taillight housings for $100...sign me up! And the new stuff...NOS headlight buckets for a 1962 Ply for $600....over 1/2 the price I paid for the vehicle. How about no.
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I have built 3 hotrods off ebay mostly, some stuff from jegs and summit, where ever I could get the cheapest price. all my major buying is over now (retired) . do the search, it will save $ in the end. there are a couple of guys on here that wouldn`t pay an average going price for an item or two that I had, but turned around and ask way way more for the same part later! one of them even has a website w/ ridiculously high prices. guess his stuff is gold . I will do w/o, till I find decent prices before buying from these guys.
 
Yeah, just keep looking. none of my projects are in a hurry (could you tell?) so I just wait for something to come up. That Offy Carb hat selling here is a prime example of a smoking deal, and I missed it by a day. Oh well.....
 
Quick before they're gone.....early A body V8 exhaust manifolds, only $375 for the pair!!! On a good note, they'd probably be $575 if the seller actually had to clean them up!!!and here I was selling them for $100, all blasted and coated with cast iron coating!! What was I thinking???
 
67Dart273 said:
The other things you have to realize about th'bay (and I don't like it either)

th' bay has gone full nuts to suck money out of everybody, what with teaming up with paypal, and charging extra for every little thing you put on their auction site. It's completely ridiculous.

What I do NOT understand is why now one has created a viable alternative, IE "ebay was in 1998"

Also there are some folks that will pay the price "no matter what." People who cannot or will not take the time to do legwork, search other venues, when you add up that kind of time and money, the ebay prices might not be so bad "for some."
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Couldn't be more true, the fees a seller has to pay to sell an item gets crazy. I've used Ebay for years and have bought and sold lots on there, I think the norm is a charge of 10% in seller fees, plus paypal (which is owned by EBAY) takes their 3% cut. This raises the prices on everything cause sellers have a particular price they'd like for their item and need to ask for more than that to cover the commission cost.

I'd rather just sell anymore through craiglist or the FABO for sale section.
 
These threads are exactly the same on every mopar site. I enjoy going to an early swap meet and I will do exactly the same this year. I take a 4 bolt 350 a 351 Cleveland and a 340 plus other odd parts from different years and models. With the prices almost the same but negotiable the results are very predictable. As are these threads.
 
The nice thing about eBay is that you can find stuff. Some may be overpriced, but you don't have to buy it. I won't tell what I paid for a 66 AM/FM radio or a 893 oil pan. On the other hand, I listed a torn 64 Barracuda 4 speed boot for $1, and it went for about $100? Go figure... That's the beauty of having a nationwide audience. Most of us know what things are worth and what we are willing to pay for them.
 
In a capitalist society supply and demand usually determine price. I had a pair of AMC 360 Emblems that were used but looked like they came off a car with 6 miles on it. I had no use for them so I put them on ebay for $120. They sold in a half hour. For a person restoring an AMC that needs those they're probably worth twice that since they aren't reproduced. Like ppl say, the value of something is what someone else is willing to pay.
 
There is a name for that behavior: "free enterprise".
Some here speak of a kinder time when neighbors built barns for each other. Those people learned their history from Disney movies. No such thing time existed. If you want to go back to that fictional world, the term is "socialism", which in extreme cases (Cambodia, Mao's China) didn't work.

But, some people clued me in to the sometimes exorbitant prices you see on ebay. That is a trick sellers use to keep their listing active when they run out of stock. The don't expect anyone to actually bite, though I bet they would jump thru hoops to deliver if someone did. The newspapers fuss when house price are low (geezers can't cash in) and when they are high (poor young couples can't buy). Ditto for the stock market. Why fret over a down market when you are buying (via 401K)?
 
Then we enter a whole different realm if its NOS items being sold on ebay, especially E body stuff.
 
Don't get me wrong I have bought some good deals on eBay but my favorite line is "this part looks good for its age"! Ha ha it may still look like junk though!
 
cosgig said:
Quick before they're gone.....early A body V8 exhaust manifolds, only $375 for the pair!!! On a good note, they'd probably be $575 if the seller actually had to clean them up!!!and here I was selling them for $100, all blasted and coated with cast iron coating!! What was I thinking???
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But they are Mopar parts. Rare original parts, and the like.
 
Oh yes these are NOS the seller claims while its dripping with rust LOL.

These people dont even know that NOS means New Old Stock. Usually still in the original packaging.

I try to clean up stuff and put it on fabo for a fair price. Sometimes my prices on stuff are a little high. Not meaning to do that. I think sometimes people are willing to negotiate a deal.

Matt
 
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