Pick: Low Price From Lazy Seller or Higher Price from eBay Veteran
Written by ShopOne on December 15th, 2007 in Buying.
Selling at eBay or any other auction/classified sites is cutthroat business. With internet connectivity getting cheaper by day, more and more are jumping on the opportunity to sell online. Everyday, new sellers (tons of copycats too, they copy even the terms of post, the description, specs, products and all) enter the field each day.
But in buying, if you see good price, hold your horses, err, mouse. Be careful on clicking that “BUY NOW” and “BID NOW” buttons.
Other newbie sellers, they are known to undercut prices of the more established sellers just to get a piece of the pie.
Think about this… Choose your item… An MP3 player priced P3000 by a newbie seller with zero feedback versus P3300 being sold by a seller with 500 feedbacks and 99% rating.
That’s 10% price difference but would you be willing to gamble on the former or dive in the security of seller with 500 feedbacks? How about the warranty? Will you ever find this seller after a month, 2 months, 3 months and so on?
Also, be careful too with sellers who copied and pasted everything on his posts for sale from other sellers. My thinking is, if this buyer is so lazy to come up with his terms and conditions, pictures, specs and description, think how lazy he will be to support your bought items some weeks later in case problem arises.
And so, in buying, careful in picking your poison, a higher price for from an established seller or lower price for newly registered copycat seller?
Tags: Buying
