I sell things on eBay. I also look at what other people are selling.
I think with a little detective work I can discover who cheats.
Selling anything auction style for most people is a gamble. So then people who sell on eBay gamble at one time or another.
Gambling on eBay isn't cheating. It is exciting, but for some people (me) it is mostly nerve-racking.
It is a lot of work and I suspect I make about fifty cents an hour which includes my profit from things sold.
One time I put a wonderful thing in an auction. I could see that it was probably going to go for very little.
I decided I would rather keep it instead of getting a little for it so I asked someone to bid on it. At first, I thought twenty dollars but then I decided on seventeen dollars.
I was lucky but not too lucky (as I think the thing was worth forty dollars or more). Someone else bid fifty cents over my friend's bid.
Oh! And someone on eBay even asked me if we should do it for each other.
Doing it does not make much sense because if there are no higher bids than the cheating bid the seller must pay eBay for the sale.
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I have seen that some people on eBay do not know math much.
Some people do not include eBay's cut and packaging when they charge shipping.
I have seen people sell something and pay a little to sell it because I can do the math.
I usually make sure I make at least fifty cents a sale because I am selling to make money.
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Another thing I have noticed about eBay sales is that people are greedy. They see a lot of stuff and they pay a lot of money for it even though it is mostly junk. I sometimes sell things one at a time (because I don't cheat most of the time) and then if they want anything else they can have it shipped for free. Then they know what they are getting because I take good pictures. Good for them, not for me. Little things show up every imperfection and look worse on the screen that they do in hand.
Another thing people do is they make little things look big. I don't do that.
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Another thing that I think people do it they have someone bid their item to get it started,
because the truth is something that someone else wants is more desirable.
I don't do that. So I have to wait all week to see if my trouble was worth anything. Lately, it has not been worth it.
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Another bad thing about eBay is that it fosters jealousy in me. Just like the forums do.
I think with a little detective work I can discover who cheats.
Selling anything auction style for most people is a gamble. So then people who sell on eBay gamble at one time or another.
Gambling on eBay isn't cheating. It is exciting, but for some people (me) it is mostly nerve-racking.
It is a lot of work and I suspect I make about fifty cents an hour which includes my profit from things sold.
One time I put a wonderful thing in an auction. I could see that it was probably going to go for very little.
I decided I would rather keep it instead of getting a little for it so I asked someone to bid on it. At first, I thought twenty dollars but then I decided on seventeen dollars.
I was lucky but not too lucky (as I think the thing was worth forty dollars or more). Someone else bid fifty cents over my friend's bid.
Oh! And someone on eBay even asked me if we should do it for each other.
Doing it does not make much sense because if there are no higher bids than the cheating bid the seller must pay eBay for the sale.
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I have seen that some people on eBay do not know math much.
Some people do not include eBay's cut and packaging when they charge shipping.
I have seen people sell something and pay a little to sell it because I can do the math.
I usually make sure I make at least fifty cents a sale because I am selling to make money.
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Another thing I have noticed about eBay sales is that people are greedy. They see a lot of stuff and they pay a lot of money for it even though it is mostly junk. I sometimes sell things one at a time (because I don't cheat most of the time) and then if they want anything else they can have it shipped for free. Then they know what they are getting because I take good pictures. Good for them, not for me. Little things show up every imperfection and look worse on the screen that they do in hand.
Another thing people do is they make little things look big. I don't do that.
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Another thing that I think people do it they have someone bid their item to get it started,
because the truth is something that someone else wants is more desirable.
I don't do that. So I have to wait all week to see if my trouble was worth anything. Lately, it has not been worth it.
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Another bad thing about eBay is that it fosters jealousy in me. Just like the forums do.
