ebay stuffs

[someone]

I think this question is relevant to this board. I've been surfing around ebay to see what kinds of things people sell and their prices. I notice that a lot of things people sell there are brand new with tags (at least what the sellers claim them to be), yet they are sold for a very cheap price. I wonder where those sellers got their cheap products to sell. They must have gotten them extremely cheap otherwise there's no way they could make some money. any thoughts anyone?

[Lord Majestic]

any thoughts anyone?

Unwanted gifts for example -- statistically 0.27% of population have birthdays every day.

[chodges84]

I'vw always thought that they just don't make much money. On smaller items anyway. Once you get into items that will sell for a few hundred pounds it becomes more worthwhile.

Either that or they buy thousands at a time.

[bhartzer]

The feds just broke a huge ring here in the Dallas area recently where people were stealing new stuff and then selling it on Ebay.

In one instance, they would see something in a store, try to sell it on Ebay, and if it brought enough money in the auction the seller would then "go get it" from the store.

All I can say is, "Buyer Beware".

[HughMungus]

Some people know how to get off-sizes, discontinued stuff, stuff with bad or wrong labeling, broken boxes, returns, etc. In other words, stuff that isn't quite up to snuff for a retailer.

[sabai]

A lot of people use drop shippers on ebay... and a lot of people source stuff from abroad

[Essex_boy]

I stumbed across a great way - ring suppliers of products stocked by major chainstores and ask them what they do with the returns.

[markbiz]

Not everything you see on ebay is authentic, even though they will state that it is. I know some people who found this out the hard way, lol.