Thursday, April 8, 2010

Bargain Hunting On The World Wide Web

By Sarah Bielak

It has not been long ago since I started getting hooked on buying some stuff from eBay. I find it really addicting since you get to see and compare everything that you need side by side in order to know the benefits that you get from each item from the others that you filter out on your product search. Some even offer free shipping so it's not a bad deal at all.


Sometimes, when the seller forgets to bid against your bid on their products which they started to auction of at a ridiculously low price to work its way up, you end purchasing the item for 1/8 of its original price. I had 2 bag purchases that only cost $10 each when the bags cost around $80 each. I ended up paying exactly $10 for each bag and the best part was the shipping was free. I think the seller was planning on starting the bid at $5 only and when someone bids on it, he would outbid the customer until it reaches the price he wants. I guess his plan didn't work on me because I made sure to bid on the item at the last minute. Maybe he thought nobody would bid on the item at the last 1 minute of his auction so he took a rest.


Unfortunately, I happen to be on the look out for auctions that are relating to end. The sooner, the better. It's also a good strategy to acquire stuff from eBay at an extremely cost-effective cost. The next time I looked at for items under the same seller's name, the bags that he had started at a price around $50 for precisely the same kind of bag I got from him. I guess he learned his lesson.


I felt a small terrible for him though. But that did not stop me from looking for more bargains that are ridiculously priced on eBay. I believe they've just about every right to start their auction at a reasonable price to drum up a trade but become a bit of too complacent during the last minute of their particular auction. That's realistically where the problem starts to happen with sellers. They become irresponsible at the last minute just when they need to be on guard most. Anything will be able to happen during the last minute to your auction and there exists nothing you can easily do once the auction comes to an end.


It is either you risk not pushing by means of with sending the things over to the winning bidder and get a negative comments that has a most certain possibility of having your account suspended or banned from the site or you could select to accept your fault and send the product over to the winning bidder for a dirt inexpensive price which you cannot even think of. As sellers, we should know the responsibility that we usually are supposed to be practicing as professionals identical way as we tend to be responsible in obtaining stuff from websites or in the genuine world.


There should be no room for negligence because in the end, we will likely be the one to put up with the consequence and there is certainly no person else to blame but ourselves. As for me, I will continue to hunt for bargains on the net so sellers need to be more vigilant with the merchandise they are generally auctioning off at a ridiculously low price.

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