I have just been asked 'are you sure it's a 1MB graphics card,and not a 1 GB card,you might be mistaken'
I'm selling an old Cirrus logic card btw ,don't ya just love the youth of today 

FalconFly wrote on 20.06.09 at 23:30:58:
I'm convinced that Saturdays are whoppers days,they must let them out of the loony bins (asylums),it's a dead cert

Leveller wrote on 21.06.09 at 04:18:48:


I do it sometimes, but I state that I'm aware of the rules and placed bids, so I also make an offer a seller cant refuse that easily. We can always agreed upon "winning the auction at any cost" and paying the fix amount you offered. Sometimes the amount is bigger than the last bid, sometimes smaller - but its never too far from the amount offered and its always a matter of luck

I will never forget a guy who refused my buy-now offer for some rare SIMM RAM. In the end he only got 50% of my offer. I bet he was sorry, but I was not

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I never do it for normal Items, as there are like 50 other identical "Buy it now" offers on Ebay at the same time.
If the guy is in such a hurry, he should pick any of those offers.

Also a good one :

Auction Description reads (in bold letters) :
Used for 1 month but basically like new. Latest BIOS has been updated, just insert your CPU and you're ready to go.
Item ships with original sales receipt from May 2009, you have full warranty.

Q : dear seller, is the item okay ? ...and most important, is the original receipt included ??

First : How - on earth - can someone participate in EBay but can't read big, bold letters ? Maybe I should increase Font size even more or include an alternative Auction description for the visual impaired ?
Second : What does the description sound like ?? Like I'm selling non-functional junk, that just happens to be like new, looks brand new as well and comes with full warranty ?!

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And again :
- Item already has multiple bids placed

Q : What would be your fixed price?

...Dude, that's a 7 day running auction, had I intended to make it a "Buy it Now" type sale, don't you think I would have made it one ?!
If you want to know the sales price, buy a time machine and travel to next Sunday or wait 6 days until the auction is over...
Yet another soul that did not quite comprehend how an EBay auction works.

...these folks never stop to entertain me.

It's not the basic asking in the case of rare or old enough items that do not have other Buy-it-now offers listed that I find annoying, neither the question to ship outside of original planned regional shipping.

It's the repeated requests to violate old EBay rules that I question (asking sellers to cancel an auction that already has bids placed).

Additionally, all people I encountered just wanted to save money and strike an easy deal (as if I was in a hurry to lose money and do cheap giveaways), not few even tried to make it outside EBay.
I hate that. If they want hightech goodies, they'll have to put their purse where their desire it - or leave it if they can't afford them.

When they succeed with that on others, they may have struck one deal for themself. They'll lose one next time when someone else plays the trick on them.
In the end, IMHO nothing gained but alot lost - the trust in the working system that is being corrupted.

ps47 wrote on 29.06.09 at 20:33:13:
I saw that myself,just what the hell is the guy selling,I can't understand it at all,if it was for the Aston Martin near the bottom,I'd defo consider a bid

A classic,this is one for the all time most dumbest questions EVER asked,I'm currently selling an AMD Athlon xp 2200 cpu on ebay,this is gospel btw,I was asked if this would fit in a Pentium 4 socket 478 Motherboard,after I fell off my seat I calmly replied,no,you need a Pentium 4 socket 478 cpu,where do these people come from