Overpriced eBay listings and the likes. - $299 for a yellowed, no-brand, "vintage" keyboard. It's a deal!

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

I at least have an answer for this one. Keyboard collectors are fucking insane. I can't speak to this specific type, but in the general landscape, this is a very modest price.

I'm watching an ASMR video, aren't I?

(All those bells and whistles strike me as a bit much. When my keyboard macros got too obnoxious for a normal keyboard I just bought a Genovation CP48. And paid like half of what this eBay listing is asking.)

 

[Dan D. Mann]

I at least have an answer for this one. Keyboard collectors are fucking insane. I can't speak to this specific type, but in the general landscape, this is a very modest price.

Collecting keyboards is a thing? Autism is a terrible thing. Of all the things you could collect, stamps, coins, transformers toys. Instead your autism compels you to collect computer keyboards.

I hate those keyboard autists. They even purchase fully working vintage terminals\computers (which cost less than the keyboard itself), change the original plug into usb and sell it on eBay; destroying perfectly preserved vintage equipment in the process.

 

[Green Room]

does the ridiculous JDM bubble count?

$8,000 more than it was brand new in the showroom
This is a 90 horsepower vehicle

>but muh sr20 swap bro!!!

 

[Billy Beer]

Ebay used to be a platform where people got great deals because the items were used or overstock, along with the bidding system and people had the sense to understand that such a thing at least halves the price in most cases. Nowadays cunts out here are using it to jew people out of their money or just treat it as if it was another amazon service.

I can respect hustling - but what is incredibly obnoxious is having retards asking double the price for a used item where literally beats the original purpose of the platform and you get it off of amazon or your local store instead.

Also yeah, scalpers can go fuck themselves. I ain't in a rush to buy a PS5. Just waiting until the time I can go to a store and pick one up for the price it was intended to be.

The scummy practice of having their mates run up bids, only to cancel the listing if people didnt get swooped up in the scam.

Fuck Ebay.

 

[The Real Me]

I like the used iPhones selling for thousands that are obvious money laundering schemes.

Bro, you don’t understand…they have Flappy Bird and Fortnite installed.

 

[Bongocat]

Collecting keyboards is a thing? Autism is a terrible thing. Of all the things you could collect, stamps, coins, transformers toys. Instead your autism compels you to collect computer keyboards.

Maaaaaaaaan you have no idea. We even have a thread on it for us.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/mechanical-keyboard-autism-thread.73152/

It was an entire world I dove into because I wanted to build ONE custom (which I did, and then I stopped). For some people it's like their entire damn life.

r/MechanicalKeyboards

r/MechanicalKeyboards: Keyboard lovers Clicking and Clacking in a content rich, friendly place. The goal of this subreddit is to provide daily links …

www.reddit.com

These people will spend multiple cars worth of money on click-clack.

 

[PuffyGroundCloud]

Maaaaaaaaan you have no idea. We even have a thread on it for us.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/mechanical-keyboard-autism-thread.73152/

It was an entire world I dove into because I wanted to build ONE custom (which I did, and then I stopped). For some people it's like their entire damn life.

r/MechanicalKeyboards

r/MechanicalKeyboards: Keyboard lovers Clicking and Clacking in a content rich, friendly place. The goal of this subreddit is to provide daily links …

www.reddit.com

These people will spend multiple cars worth of money on click-clack.

only in r/mk when spending hundreds of dollar of monopolized plastic keycaps is considered as normal.
want to get the clone? you basically a nazi to them

 

[Bongocat]

only in r/mk when spending hundreds of dollar of monopolized plastic keycaps is considered as normal.
want to get the clone? you basically a nazi to them

and don't confuse Krytox 205 with Krytox 205 g0 you will be lynched

 

[A Logging Company]

Power level time: When I price things, I generally search for the price the items were recently sold at, and ball park a range taking into consideration things like condition and if it has peripherals like power cables, remotes, and what not.

Another big factor is how desperate am I am to dump something. If I want to sell something quickly, or I have no clue how to price it, I'll do an auction. If I feel like I can get a higher price and I'm not in a rush to sell it, I'll put it at a higher price.

One trick I've done is to put an item up at a higher-yet-still-reasonable price, wait for people to put it on their wish list, then send them an offer that is only slightly cheaper than the average price, to make them feel like their getting more of a deal than they actually are.

If you want a good deal and have some patience, put things on your wish list. Sellers on their dashboards are alerted to offers, have options to make bulk offers. Generally when they making offers, they want to get rid of something and are willing to take a hit to the profit margins to do so. If they are desperate to sell, you can get away with counter offers that can go as deep as 30%+ on top off their original discount offer. Remember a lot of sellers are working out of their house, and at best have a large garage to store all this stuff, if not smaller. Sometimes its just worth it to take a slight loss and still get an algorithm boost and positive review.

 

[SITHRAK!]

trying to compete with chink products is a pain

I wanted to pick up a percolator from eBay but had to give up after facing hundreds of pages of chinks selling espresso machines mislabelled as percolators. Chink overlisting is a fucking cancer on eBay.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Boxless copy of Drakengard for 99 dollars. Pinky promise it is tested. Excessive scratches included.

This game isn't even rare enough to warrant this price. When I got the game ten years ago, the store I bought it from had at least 11 copies all in box. It was 5 or 14 dollars.

 

[JT Marlin]

Sold items > listed items.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Boxless copy of Drakengard for 99 dollars. Pinky promise it is tested. Excessive scratches included.
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This game isn't even rare enough to warrant this price. When I got the game ten years ago, the store I bought it from had at least 11 copies all in box. It was 5 or 14 dollars.

Fuck I never finished this game if it's the one I think it is. Back in the day i got it for 5 dollars from one of those arcade machines thats's like a roullete with a bunch of games and dvds in it. Somehow this also reminded me how a few years ago I saw a listing of majoras mask for the n64 listed at this exact fucking price with a bunch of chunks missing from the cartridge. Not duct tape or anything protecting the innards it's like they just smashed it with a hammer or some shit. The listing was just like "fell off a shelf" but I've never seen an n64 cart that looked like that from falling off a shelf. might check to see if the person was still trying to sell it or not later, I've seen similarly strangely destroyed scalper listings for video games and electronics that the seller just goes "works!"

 

[totallyrandomusername]

This old POS computer is probably only worth about $125.

 

[Pee Cola]

Don’t get me started on trying “make an offer” with Indians. 100 dollar item? I might make a first offer at 80. 20% is a reasonable starting point, and if we haggle down to around 10-15%, I’m happy, and I know they’re still making a profit over their domestic market.
Offer declined. Then they send me an offer for 1% off, and if I counteroffer, they counter with 1.2%. Nigga what the fuck. Bunch of stingy bastards.

Haggling is second only to cricket as far as India's national sports go. I'm sure you could have eventually gotten them down by 10% if you didn't mind going another 15 or 20 more rounds.

Meanwhile, this complete MiSTer FPGA setup is a bargain at just under 1,600 dollarydoos (about $1,200 Freedom Bux or £800 Britbong squids).

It's a shame that the upcoming RMC MiSTer Multisystem is less than half the price.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Who wants an obscure parody game from the late 90s made with an even more obscure 3D engine?

 

[totallyrandomusername]

Haggling is second only to cricket as far as India's national sports go. I'm sure you could have eventually gotten them down by 10% if you didn't mind going another 15 or 20 more rounds.

So, Indians are just brown Jews.

 

[Deranged Jew]

So, Indians are just brown Jews.

No, we don't spend our money, we spend yours. They have to steal your money in order to spend it. Slight differences there, plus we don't shit in the streets.

 

[Thumb Butler]

This old POS computer is probably only worth about $125.

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This junk is hardly in nice condition. I would give $50 max.

 

[The Lawgiver]

It's never the actual rare shit nowadays that gets absurdly scalped on ebay and amazon, I've noticed this. Rarest things that get scalped that make somewhat of a sense being scalped are event/convention exclusive promo items or products. Occasionally you get weird cases like the thing I mentioned in another thread where somehow the listings for the prototype test shot that there's like only 5 of in existence or some shit goes for cheaper than the actual mass produced final release item. I've seen this happen with videogames too sometimes but video games are more easy to make a bootleg copy of a prototype than a statue or action figure with a lot of small and detailed parts. My guess for how items like this go under scalpers radars sometimes is the fact scalping these days is mostly automated algorithm bot account shit buying up all stock of items and the scalpers would have to manually go for items that weren't registered in their keyword thing.