View Full Version : Want It Now
Kilik Kurosawa
12-03-2004, 02:24 PM
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/marketing.shtml#2004-12-03093222
Pretty cool for folks looking for specific items. Of course you must first list the item you want to sell the person and then have them respond to your listing thus paying fees, but still a decent resource to have. Like the old method of fishing with your toe.
downfall
12-03-2004, 03:33 PM
This can be good and bad.
As far as games though, it'll probably end up like GameTZ or whatever - everyone wants Bubble Bath Babes and NWC, but nobody has 'em or is willing to sell 'em.
Might be a good way to get rid of some stuff you have lying around though.
I'm still a bit skeptical though.
downfall
12-03-2004, 03:43 PM
Two other things I noticed while I looked at the listings:
1. People are already putting things like "Nintendo DS" and "Slimline PS2". :roll: That defeats the purpose of the whole thing already. I'm glad you want a DS, why don't you bid on one of the 3100+ listings in the Nintendo DS category.
2. Unless the person actually says "I'm willing to pay x amount of dollars", there's no indication of how much they actually are willing to pay. I don't particularly want to list something and then be stuck with the fees if I put too high a BIN on there or something, but I also don't want to sell my stuff on ebay for seventeen cents and make a net profit of negative five dollars because of ebay and paypal fees and whatnot. Perhaps that's just my thought process though.
I finally checked this out today. Geez. People are posting for stuff that literally has dozens of listings for exactly what they are looking for. Something needs to be tweaked on Ebay's end to filter out this garbage.