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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1908370, member: 27832&quot;]As I&#039;ve said in other threads, I&#039;ve been looking for some of the eBay deals that others have been reporting -- 4x (or more!) eBay bucks, and so forth. I discovered that I&#039;d somehow turned off email notifications for deals. I turned it back on a few weeks ago, but I still haven&#039;t seen any of those offers.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, a week or two ago, I started getting these tentative emails to the effect of &quot;you&#039;ve been buying on eBay for a while -- why not try selling?&quot; If they&#039;d been addressed to me personally (as opposed to a mass mailing), I would&#039;ve been happy to explain to them in detail why I went from a Power Seller in the early 2000&#039;s to someone who hasn&#039;t sold in years, starting with &quot;no negative feedback for abusive buyers&quot; and continuing through &quot;<a href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/paypal-dispute.182877/page-2#post-1209656" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/paypal-dispute.182877/page-2#post-1209656">bulletproof scheme for defrauding sellers out of high-ticket items, with no recourse to Seller Protection</a>&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>This weekend, though, I got an offer I can&#039;t refuse: list an item between now and April 26, and if it sells for $50 or more (and you receive payment by May 5), you get a $50 coupon from eBay.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been holding off on selling because the balance of power is so heavily weighted toward buyers. For this, though, I&#039;ll certainly list at least one item. If I put up, say, $4 FV of junk silver at a BIN of $50, it&#039;ll sell within a minute or two, and the buyer is unlikely to try to return it. They get $56 or so worth of silver, and I get (after fees and shipping) $90 for $56 worth of silver.</p><p><br /></p><p>I <i>might</i> try to come up with something more interesting to list, but I&#039;m figuring the way to go here is &quot;pick something that&#039;s sure to sell without problems, with value as close as possible to the $50 threshold, and don&#039;t try to be greedy.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Has anybody else seen this offer?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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