"DeepDiver" wrote in message
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"cmorettz" wrote in message
ups.com...
What are the best and or the worst prices youve seen at auction?
outrageous prices? Auction fever? One second late?

Lets hear it.

Far too often, I see an Ebay auction for a used (or new) item sell at a
price well above the retail list price for the same item new. And that's
before the shipping costs are added on. The most outrageous cases are when
the seller posts the list retail price of the item right in the auction
description and the stupid buyers still bid the price over that amount.
Talk
about auction fever!


I have seen the prices on FleeBay go out of sight too, but I have scored
some good deals on ebay. The latest deal was this dayton/wilton VS 20" drill
press
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=7511913725
for $280.00 in all most new condition the MSC blue book lists it for
$5780.00 I have been looking for one for years!

William.....



At least during a live auction, a buyer doesn't have the benefit of time
to
research the value of an item being auctioned before making a bidding
decision. But there's simply no excuse for this kind of over-bidding on
Ebay, especially when one can quickly look up the list price from any
number
of online retailers.

- Michael