[Landric]

At the moment this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=130302631363 Lee Whack-A-Mole Classic Loader is bid up to $26.50 with more than three days to go.

The same Classic Loader is in stock at Midway for $21.99. http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=553691

I suppose a lot of ebay buyers just don't shop around at all, ebay or nothing.

[ranger335v]

"Lee Whack-A-Mole Classic Loader is bid up to $26.50 with more than three days to go. The same Classic Loader is in stock at Midway for $21.99. "

Those sort of people explain why/how OB. et al, got elected, including votes by many shooters, does it not?

[bullseye308]

Price 380 dies on evilbay if you want a shock. :evil:

[Sir_William1]

This would be why evrything costs so much, can't blame the seller, just the morons willing to pay so much more for everything.

[jcwit]

I see this kind of bidding all the time at consinment auctions here in No. Indiana.

I have come to the conclusion that the avg. person lives within their own little world and have no idea whats going on or what pricing of items are. Our socity is more concerned with American Idol than with what is happening outside of their make belive world.

Sad isn't it?

[Walkalong]

Our socity is more concerned with American Idol than with what is happening outside of their make belive world.
That would be funny, if you did not have a very valid point.

[Dark Skies]

A lot of it is down to manly competition kicking in. It's why I only bid with a sniping tool right at the last minute - it only stokes them up otherwise.

[Guinny_Ire]

They're morons bc/they don't know any better. I use to shop there, before I found any of these boards. Now I only bought Jap 7.7 RCBS dies (the laugh is I have a type 38) when I first started attempting to accumulate what I believed I would need. Eventually, like me, they'll figure out by shopping around that there has to be a middle man more reasonable than what is offered there.

[SquirrelNuts]

I think people get caught up in things they want, and do not shop around.

I came across a batch of specialized drill bits for a rotary cutting tool called a RotoZip several years ago. I couldn't use them, so I put them up on eBay. Wouldn't you know it that out of close to ten auctions I put up for them, all but one ended over the retail price for them at a hardware store or Home Depot.

[Smokey Joe]

Landric--It happens at "real" auctions, too. I've gone to several of those where 2 or more bidders just went nuts against each other, and the final price for an item was just astronomical.

When my parents-in-law sold out of dairy-farming we lucked in on the GREAT side of that. It was a beautiful day, and the auction was well advertised. The guys buying the cows bid like those were the last cows ever to be sold. There were collectors fighting over my FIL's elderly tractors--and the 2 decent tractors went well, too. The Amish guys from down the road wanted all of his pull-behind equipment. There were antique collectors who bought almost anything old, dirty, and rusty, from the basement.

The ultimate was a pile of rusty junk. Literally. I know, I piled it. Bent steel fence posts, broken iron castings, ruined fenders off long-dead trucks, etc. All the steel junk that accumulates on a farm. Nothing but scrap iron. Two guys bid it up to a point where I actually asked the auctioneer to call a halt, and pointed out to them that it was ALL rusty old junk. The response? "Let us bid, let us bid!" One of the guys beat out the other, and paid up, and gleefully hauled it all away. Ye gods.

When you're the seller, "Auction Fever" is a wonderful thing!

The ONLY way to make out at an auction is to know your prices, pick a "top bid," and stick to it.

[Landric]

The madness continues, the loader is now up to $36.50.

[Landric]

It sold for $45.63. One could buy two Classic Loaders at Midway for that!

[jcwit]

A fool and his money will soon be parted.

[Roccobro]

God bless stupid people! :)

Justin

[2RCO]

Back before Ebay became evil. I used to sell a good deal of items and they'd often bering as much as double the price that I had them for on WWW.2RCo.COM.

[scrat]

holly crap the auction ended at 45.00. i checked out ebay a few weeks ago looking for some birchwood casey bluing kit. some guy was selling a kit for 20.00 and a shipping charge of 8.00. i even asked the guy if he would go down. guy replied very rudely telling me to basicly screw off. so i went to cabelas and bought one on line for 14.99 think 5.00 to ship. i copied the link and put it on his page

[moosehunt]

Everybody that buys on e-bay isn't a moron! There are decent deals there if you use your head. Over the past 3 months I picked up 3 nice used scopes there that were just what I wanted, turned out to be in the condition promoted, and I got quite decent prices. All 3 were upper end quality scopes. I also watched many go overpriced, true, but not with my money! I watched one excellent scope go way below what it was worth, had to really hold myself back, because in truth, I really didn't need it, but someone got a real fine deal. So it's not really kosher, I don't think, to knock any and all who use e-bay. Just use it with inteligence and patience.

[ChefJeff1]

I think you have to have patience. I got a lee loader .357 for $20 +$5 shipping, pretty fair i felt. I did see a lee leader go for like $76 or something, that's crazy. there's a target model for .270 now at like $63, maybe a collector item though.

[BLJimmy]

How come the stuff I sell on Ebay always goes for bargain prices?:confused:

[GP100man]

gotta be the (vintage) boxes!!!

GP100man

[otblue]

Yes there are people that pay stupid prices on eBay but occasionally it makes sense, just not to the casual observer. eBay is worldwide and many sellers will ship just about anywhere and for a reasonable or actual cost.

If you are after something specific especially of relatively low retail price and you don't live in the USA it is often cost effective to pay over retail and save on the postage compared to a mail order warehouse assuming that they ship anyway.

Check out the conditions for international orders on some of the big USA suppliers. Cabelas shipping is 45% of merchandise price and they won't ship much related to guns, not even cleaning gear. Many others simply won't ship outside CONUS or if they do they add significant extra charges which if spread out over a large order aren't too bad but on a single item end up making inflated price on eBay actually a good deal in comparison.

[Walkalong]

Everybody that buys on e-bay isn't a moron! Nope, folks are just saying some are. :)

[Smokey Joe]

GP 100 Man--gotta be the (vintage) boxes!!!
That could be it--collectors often seem to be more interested in the packaging--especially if pristine, even more so if still factory-sealed--than they are in the merchandise inside. To each their own obsessions, I guess.