Trends on ebay

[JAC]

To see sellers attempting to oversell their items.

Example 1)
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Selller: ferro9999

BIZZARRE 486 DX2 SX807 OPENED CAP ???

Item number: 120161223199


"INTEL A80486DX2- 66 SX807 WITH OPENED CAP, I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS OPENED BUT I HAVE THE SUSPICION THAT THIS IS LIKE AN ENGINEERING SAMPLE OR OTHER SAMPLE"

"ITEM NOT TESTED FOR FUNCTIONALITY, ONLY FOR COLLECTION
NO MISSING OR BENT PINS, THE CPU IS PERFECT"


This is just bull droppings. No picture of the top of the cpu either. I think eBay call this keyword spamming. I call it attempting to deceive. Also, how the heck can the cpu be perfect with the cap missing??





Example 2)
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Seller: rare-chips-4-u again.. really talking out of his bottom. Everything is MEGA RARE, RARE and/or MINT. Yeah right.

Buyers should be careful when a seller uses the majority of the listing to sing the praises about cpu/chip collecting. Most of his listings, no, all of his listings are like that. The listings hardly spend any time talking about the actual item up for sale. This is a classic tactic used by salesmen to stir up the emotions and make you feel good about your purchase - whilst this may appear harmless on the face of it, I am sure many buyers will part with more money than they should, or can comfortably spend. Lotterys use the same trick.. they sell you the dream, not the reality. This is not the spirit of eBay, and whilst you and I might not be taken in by this, many buyers are.

Also dont forget the shill bidding on this user, this person was/is KKSELLS

[D.8080]

Ferro9999 isn't a member here?

I noticed his strange descriptions, the one you talk about made me laugh.

[Unzlbunzl]

ferro is a lucky guy, sold him 4 willamette ES for 33, he sold 2 of them for 100+ already - arggh

have you seem the "sealed with glass" chips? 89€ for pentium 90 - lol

[andamus]