Ebay Bitching! Need to vent? Vent away! - Collecting Tiki

T tikiEAMES Member Joined: Jun 29, 2004 Posts: 54	T tikiEAMES Posted posted on Tue, Jan 25, 2005 10:30 PM Agreed. I too was once dependent on ebay to find things. But the more I looked the more I was outbid. Which brought me to my next search. The phonebook. I began cold calling looking for places to search locally. Now I have several haunts that regularly turn up treasure. And we all know it's the hunt that is truly the thrill. Today much richer for my knowledge, I sit back and laugh at what people will pay for the chairs I collect. Knowing I've paid 20-30 dollars per item, and am sitting on the other side of the fence reaping the profit. Ebay a great place to sell a terrible place to buy. But an even better resource center to educate you to the obsessive nature of humans to overpay for items they think they must own. After all it was started as a place to trade pez dispensers. I too will keep my eye out if I ever see one for $5 or $10 dollars I will definitely send you a pm for 155.00.

Agreed. I too was once dependent on ebay to find things. But the more I looked the more I was outbid. Which brought me to my next search. The phonebook. I began cold calling looking for places to search locally. Now I have several haunts that regularly turn up treasure. And we all know it's the hunt that is truly the thrill. Today much richer for my knowledge, I sit back and laugh at what people will pay for the chairs I collect. Knowing I've paid 20-30 dollars per item, and am sitting on the other side of the fence reaping the profit. Ebay a great place to sell a terrible place to buy. But an even better resource center to educate you to the obsessive nature of humans to overpay for items they think they must own. After all it was started as a place to trade pez dispensers.

I too will keep my eye out if I ever see one for $5 or $10 dollars I will definitely send you a pm for 155.00.

Post #137411 by tikiEAMES on Tue, Jan 25, 2005 10:30 PM