I'm kinda tempted just to see what happens but that's another $500 I do -not- need to spend right now lol. Thanks OP, you're gonna make a lot of people's night.
Same reason Gamestop had NES Classic systems in stock long after they were sold out. Not entirely sure what the reason is, but I'm guessing it's something along the lines of saving inventory.
Definitely oversold, placed a order and got a message saying they couldn't process my payment. How they even got these is questionable. I'll be surprised if any actually ship.
ups, I refuse to ever buy anything from them ever again.Wow you ain't kidding. I checked and you can easily get one less than 700. By the time scalpers pay tax, shipping, and ebay fees, barely worth it. I remember the day preorders ended people were trying to get 2 grand.
Exactly. Out of curiosity I checked eBay when I saw this thread and did some quick, rough calculations. That's an awful lot of risk and hassle to sell one of these on eBay for such a small amount of profit.
I actually hope you did, since I want to be entertained by the story of how you cope with the debt as you try moving 20 units.
Used my ASPCA account myself.
You do realize that's $10,000, right? Even for many people not living paycheck to paycheck, that's an awful lot of money from one's savings account to have tied up in Playstation 4s for God knows how long. Totally agree on it being more work than it's worth a lot of the time, though!
Napkin math I did suggests the margin on reselling these is near $100 in profit, I guess if you were buying enough it's a quick gain but yeah more trouble than worth to me
I think one of the major factors for it being a bad flip is using eBay. People suck and can easily take advantage of sellers there. So $100 in profit from a $500 purchase with $40+ in shipping is extremely risky, and it would only take one shitball to potentially turn the whole thing into a net loss. $100 in profit from a much cheaper and smaller game or steelbook or something is much more enticing.
Yep, that is a huge risk. And the margin does not cover the crap you would have to go through. It took multiple phone calls to even partially resolve a guy that tried to play the "never picked up" scam with me and waited until the very last second to file the claim to try and game the clock and that was over a single game. I would be very hesitant to risk something that expensive over 20 different auctions. Ebay is ridiculously "buyer friendly", and even with all of the necessary documentation and proof they still get away with it all the time. I had everything in order, and this guy had a loooong history of claiming he didn't receive things judging from the feedback he left others, and while they said they would "look into it" nothing ever happened to him.
I had my ebay account restricted like 10 yrs ago because I sold someone a FF7 PC big box and he said I 'packaged it poorly', when I had put it into a priority mail carboard box that was basically the exact size to fit the box in, eBay is definitely very risky as a seller because they will gladly back buyers and it's hard to really prove anything on your end once it's out of your hands. Nevermind how large the fee incursions go between eBay taking a cut and then Paypal taking their cut
It boggles my mind that this can even be a thing. If the tracking shows it delivered, then that should be that.
Tracking, confirmation, and the name and phone of their post office of the post master that would confirm the package was in a bin awaiting his pickup. He was trying to play the "I didn't get it, refund me now" bit, then pick it up after the refund. The post master said he had several packages, so I assume he was doing this to others as well. When I pushed back he waited until the very last day, phoned them and filed a claim which they immediately refunded him. Took three calls for EBay to give me the money back.
shame that ebay never got the point that they could just act as some kinda shipping proxy and take the risk off the sellers entirely and assume shipping risk
On the flip side, one time ever I was scammed on eBay. I bought a $400 highly rare art book. A week goes by, never comes. Seller claims he’s super busy and apologies. Offers to send me an extra book for the inconvenience. I get the consolation prize a few days later. Another week, no $400 art book. I then get stern and say if I don’t have it by the end of week three, I’m reporting them. They then went no contact.
Okay who tf on CAG is floating $100k month to month? $10k maybe but 10x that? I dunno man.
Not equivalent. The effort and risk to resell is NOT even remotely the same as finding a $100 bill on the ground, and walking away from it.
What a silly thing to say to a representative after a long, convoluted process of trying to get your money back while making them believe you are telling the truth.
Not everyone is making pennies a day. Some of us may be cheap but doesn't mean we're all below the poverty line.
