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10-03-2006, 12:44 PM
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Re: Thoughts on ebaying/reselling ps3\'s
You need to take some care with this. I'm a eBay powerseller with feedback of over 6,000. If you have a low feedback score and no established track record folks are not as likely to pay top dollar.
The biggest concern/advice I can offer is that video games systems are very problematic. Many times you’ve have fictitious bidders with feedback scores of under 10 or even negative. Possibly it’s the other guys selling trying to screw with your auctions. You’ll find your item sells for 5x value but you’ll never get paid. And with a time sensitive item you need to get paid right away. You may want to consider only allowing pre-approved bidders (see ebay for details) or stating that you’ll only allow feedback scores of +25 and canceling bids of the scammers. Id’ also require immediate payment via paypal as an option. Good luck.. if you give it a run… 
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#33
10-03-2006, 12:51 PM
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I own a Gamestop in San Diego, it appears that I'll be receiving 20 PS3's when they are released. I don't think I will be putting any up for sale, and all on ebay. [/ QUOTE ] Gamestop lets you do that? That's crazy...
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#35
10-04-2006, 12:06 AM
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Re: Thoughts on ebaying/reselling ps3\'s
[ QUOTE ]
You need to take some care with this. I'm a eBay powerseller with feedback of over 6,000. If you have a low feedback score and no established track record folks are not as likely to pay top dollar. The biggest concern/advice I can offer is that video games systems are very problematic. Many times you’ve have fictitious bidders with feedback scores of under 10 or even negative. Possibly it’s the other guys selling trying to screw with your auctions. You’ll find your item sells for 5x value but you’ll never get paid. And with a time sensitive item you need to get paid right away. You may want to consider only allowing pre-approved bidders (see ebay for details) or stating that you’ll only allow feedback scores of +25 and canceling bids of the scammers. Id’ also require immediate payment via paypal as an option. Good luck.. if you give it a run… [/ QUOTE ] This is time sensitive, but it will still be +EV to sell on ebay a couple weeks after launch. You can always return it for your $$ back.
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#36
10-04-2006, 07:09 AM
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Re: Thoughts on ebaying/reselling ps3\'s
I have a source in Japan and will be able to get my PS3s through there ... I've been reading about the different systems, and it doesn't seem like there's any limitation for an American player to buy a Japanese system and play any American game on it ... I'll only be buying my PS3s 6 days earlier than Americans, and then the cost of shipping / insuring them over here is another additional cost, but at least this way I can avoid sitting out front of a Best Buy ... anyone know of any other issues with buying the Japanese system and selling to Americans?
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#37
10-04-2006, 08:17 AM
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Re: Thoughts on ebaying/reselling ps3\'s
I am from Europe and trying to fix a PS3 in the US, but I would like to know if anyone knows it will be possible to play European games on an American PS3?
Another problem is ofcourse I have not seen anyone shipping PS3's to Europe, so I need some connections (2+2? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] ) in the US to fix this. I've seen people saying prices will be between $1k-1,2k, is that what it's probably going to be? Anyways, I am open for offers! I have a nice Neteller bankroll [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] Don't hesitate to pm me and we'll work something out. greets.
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#38
10-04-2006, 09:07 AM
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Re: Thoughts on ebaying/reselling ps3\'s
selling anytime before xmas will be very +ev
selling just after xmas when people got xmas money and ps3s are still sold out will still be +ev, just not as much as prior to xmas but if nobody does preorders, then can only get one each by camping out
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#39
10-04-2006, 09:44 AM
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This is time sensitive, but it will still be +EV to sell on ebay a couple weeks after launch. You can always return it for your $$ back. [/ QUOTE ] Just be very careful about getting paid right away with paypal. Folks will string you along looking for a better deal... or just be jerks. Another option is if you do gets screwed over with the winner of the auction, eBay has a feature called "2nd chance auction" that works like this... You log in and create a private auction for the bidders that did not win. You can limit it to the just the 2nd highest bidder,(or more if you prefer) you can limit the number of days that have to accept (1,3,7 I believe?) If you have several systems and the difference between the top bid and the 3rd bid is only $15, make offers to all! The only deal is... you can only make the offer for what they were willing to bid. So the winner would let's say go for $470, the 2nd chance offer would have to be at the 2nd bidder’s highest price $465 let's say.. and 3rd place would have to be at their price $460. So why do it? Its makes the buyer feel as if he's got the full protection of eBay/paypal etc.. just like winning so it does not feel like an offline deal with higher risk. I use it once in awhile for my Zippo lighters, which go for about $65 and I've got a stockpile of... Vintage Zippo Lighters
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#40
10-04-2006, 05:37 PM
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Re: Thoughts on ebaying/reselling ps3\'s
Should I be trying to improve my ebay rating by buying and reselling random crap to get good reviews. Or is my 5 rating good enough to get buyers?
Also, what is the correct way to price the ps3s to maxamize +EV? Start at 500 dollars. Or start it higher closer to 1000? Have a buy-it-now of 1800?
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