I have seen some strange things on eBay, but ......

I have no idea how this guy plans on surviving, He has got to be paying eBay a fortune.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/nostalgiastop/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=200&_trksid=p3692

He has nearly 23,000 items listed on eBay, but only 276 for his feedback? And they are not all $0.99 items. Even at $0.25 per listing (and a lot are 1 day listings, he owes $5,750 just in listing fees. HUH?

 

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I'd say he has some serious issues and he may not even know it yet.

 

Free listings day. im guessing most his stuff is junk too

 

Yep! But they are not free and he has about 400 items costing > $100.

 

GOT AN HEADACHE for LOOKING on it! I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO THINK ANYMORE on that LISTING..URGHHH..So many cheap stuff...BUY BUY BUY!:thumb:

 

No need to guess.

ALL of his stuff is junk!

 

i get emails from ebay all the time for free listings,one time was for 100, another was for a free day, he probably just took it to the extreme!

 

I wouldn't say his stuff was "junk", he actually has some nice modern Canadian stuff.
But he charges too much for shipping. $4.79 for ONE comic book is ludicrous.

 

Here's another strange Ebay item:

A 4000-year old Sumerian head:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190683538946

 

ohhh. Free shipping.

 

I think $1.5 million is a bit low.

Must be several waiting to snipe this last minute.

 

Yeah.....those rich, greedy hoarders!!! I hate them so much!

 

I often wonder what the logistics were on that many listings by one individual. It takes me a few hours to photograph, edit, write a decent description and upload approximately twenty auctions. I realize there are "auction assistant" tools available, but even so, the time invested for this many (and there are sellers with many more than the one rlm was referring too) seems hardly worth the effort. Then there's the packaging (and locating the correct item) and shipping. A nightmare if you ask me. How many "assistants" do you need to operate a business like that?

 

This is why you have kids. My friend gets his 13 year old to post his stuff for him. That's why you see "prolly", "errerrs", "err mail only", and "only paypal excepted" in listings.

 

And this guy listed over 10,000 items yesterday evening and I only say that because eBay limits your search results to 10,000 items. And there were over 3000 coins listed yesterday His coin photography is pretty descent (or his ability to copy photographs?).

 

Is this the seller?

 

As long as you dont use any of the extras I thought theres only a fee if the item sells now?

 

My guess is, he collected stuff and is now deciding to sell it all and hopefully quickly. Perhaps he's retiring or needs the money for other reasons, who knows, who cares, not our problem if he doesn't sell enough to pay the eBay fees.

 

Makes you wonder if he is going to get a whole lot of payments in, take the $, and then disappear without shipping a single thing.

 

It's happened before. I remember one guy (in 1998 I think, about the time I started selling) who was selling high end collectibles (llardo or similar). Had over a thousand positive feedbacks. Then he was hit with some major personal problems, so he went for the the eBay "kill", listing hundreds of items he didn't have. Collected the money (it was all checks or M.O.'s back then, so delivery times were much longer) and disappeared. Of course, after a few incidents like that eBay began revamping their system, but it was a long time until the current buyer protection policy came to be.

Edit - actually it was 2002; just found the USA Today article:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002/03/01/ebay-fraud.htm