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I've been buying and selling on Ebay for years, not to make money, but to try out lots of different things. One seller stands out both for the amount of things he/she sells and the number of times I've been beaten to a sale. Betteroffblu.
This person makes thousands of buys and sells and I think is almost singlehandledly responsible for pushing prices up for Nikon users. I occasionally check the just listed "buy it now" auctions to try to catch a good deal. Betteroffblu very often gets there first. I have to admit he must be obsessive and have a good system, because he ends these auctions within a minute or two of them being listed. I wish I knew how he did that.
Then of course he turns them around for sale. I see, for instance, that he's bought a number of Cameta 28mm/1.4 demos for $1500 and resells them for $2600. Seemingly any good deal is snatched up by this seller and resold for a higher price.
This seller is also apparently not a nice person. Here's samples of feedback he's left for others:
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=betteroffblu&Dirn=Left+by&Many=ON&ref=home
I suppose the reason for this nasty feedback is to have leverage to try to get his own negative feedback "mutually withdrawn".
What really annoyed me today was that I read one of his auctions. He says: "An Open Letter to ALL; Ebay has been a fun way to explore my hobby and has afforded me the privilige of having dealt with MANY,MANY WONDERFUL people". As if he's sharing his wonderful good fortune with others.
I know he has a right to run a business, but he's inserted himself as an extra middleman, raising prices for all of us.
DAB
This person makes thousands of buys and sells and I think is almost singlehandledly responsible for pushing prices up for Nikon users. I occasionally check the just listed "buy it now" auctions to try to catch a good deal. Betteroffblu very often gets there first. I have to admit he must be obsessive and have a good system, because he ends these auctions within a minute or two of them being listed. I wish I knew how he did that.
Then of course he turns them around for sale. I see, for instance, that he's bought a number of Cameta 28mm/1.4 demos for $1500 and resells them for $2600. Seemingly any good deal is snatched up by this seller and resold for a higher price.
This seller is also apparently not a nice person. Here's samples of feedback he's left for others:
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=betteroffblu&Dirn=Left+by&Many=ON&ref=home
I suppose the reason for this nasty feedback is to have leverage to try to get his own negative feedback "mutually withdrawn".
What really annoyed me today was that I read one of his auctions. He says: "An Open Letter to ALL; Ebay has been a fun way to explore my hobby and has afforded me the privilige of having dealt with MANY,MANY WONDERFUL people". As if he's sharing his wonderful good fortune with others.
I know he has a right to run a business, but he's inserted himself as an extra middleman, raising prices for all of us.
DAB