Thread: Questiong about bidding on Ebay

Originally Posted by HarleyFXST

inexperience,lack of knowledge,Ebay is full of crap........take your pick. If you have read the beginners wiki, you will have already seen warnings about Ebay. Heed them.

oh, wasnt looking for razors on there. I already read bout all the crap ones on there.

Originally Posted by prezdead

OH! I think ill have to figure out how to do that.

there's no way to figure out what you need to bid to win, everybody's maximum bids are kept secret until somebody goes higher than that.
you just have to decide how much are you willing to pay for something and then bid that amount.

Originally Posted by prezdead

oh, wasnt looking for razors on there. I already read bout all the crap ones on there.

The exact suggestion is not "do NOT bid on ebay!!!!1!" but rather "Don't bid on ebay until you have the expertise to evaluate the items by yourself". I think six months of experience is recommended, but this is always individual. There's a thread called Ebay 101 by Joed that can act as a test. Worth to read otherwise too.

As said, this is because of the plethora of things that can have damaged the razor permanently.

And not just razors - I don't know what you were looking at there, but the evaluating principle works well for other, less fickle, items too.

Ebay has a help page discussing automatic bidding. They mentioned the auto-bidding as mentioned by JimmyHAD. They also mentioned that if sniping (might not have used this term) occurs outside of Ebay equal to the bid of someone who bid within Ebay, the Ebay bid wins.

I think I remember that correctly.

Even a long time collector can mess up and buy junk if they are not careful. At least this old man has done so. Whether new at it or a seasoned veteran collector look at the photos carefully. If there are any questionable issues or some possible defect that isn't shown ask questions. Even then be aware that a lot of these sellers don't know anything about razors and may mislead with no intent to deceive. They just don't know what they are looking at. I've gotten some great razors on the bay when I paid attention but some real clunkers when I didn't.

I agree that one needs to be careful using auction sites. But you CAN find gems that you don't pay thru the nose to get IF YOU'RE CAREFUL and use some common sense.

Heres my finds (except for my grandfathers Brummel-Werk, Shumate and the new DOVO I purchased..) and they were NOT over a hundred bucks per razor.

I think I did fine - and you can too. Just use common sense and remember the saying "Caveat Emptur" which means "buyer beware"!!

GOOD LUCK!

Cheers!