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**SpeedGrid** · 02-14-2013

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**REDCRAPGP** · 02-14-2013

Nope but you take a chance anytime you sell something online that it might now go for what you thought it would go for. No choice other then abiding by the t&a and selling it to that person. When I lost something on eBay and make sure its something that's going to sell if its only worth a few bucks and not something that's going to have a few buyers wanting I don't bother.

**dsmuts** · 02-14-2013

Who the hell buys cassette tapes?

**REDCRAPGP** · 02-14-2013

Thats what I was thinking lol

**DirtDog** · 02-14-2013

I sell stuff on eBay but I start the bidding at what the minimum amount id want is...takes longer to sell sometimes but totally worth

**coolone** · 02-14-2013

Simple law of economics...

A product or item's value is only what someone is willing to pay for it...

Not what you think it's worth, lol...
Happens all the time.

**SlowNA06** · 02-14-2013

It's entirely possible that someone bought them to sell in their own eBay store. Dat profit margin.

**RareGMFan** · 02-14-2013

First of all, you don't even have to do a reserve. Start the price of the auction at the bare minimum you'd accept for the items. I do this on all my auctions, especially since there are no listing fees for the 1st 50 items each month, regardless of starting price, or buy-it-now options. Second, you thought you were going to get $40 for 40 blank cassettes?? What gave you the impression blank cassettes are worth $1 a piece? Not everything old and "vintage" is collectible, or sought after. You got about what those cassettes are worth in reality (not in your mind).

Audiophiliacs may indeed search eBay for vintage items, but by definition, an audiophiliac is an elitist/snob looking for high quality/end stuff, not just "old" stuff. For example, they may look for old records, or high end used turn tables, because many of them feel sound quality of vinyl > CDs/MP3s. Cassettes, on the other hand, sounded like garbage by comparison to modern forms of media. Not even the most expensive cassettes and cassette recorders could make your copies sound remotely close to the original (not that those were great to begin with), not to mention they loose even more sound quality/playability as they get used and worn out. There was no logical reason as to why you'd believe they'd be worth anything today. It's so annoying when people think something is worth money just because it's old, and/or "rare".

**Ricky21** · 02-14-2013

Yea it does suck for that to happen. But old and rare are 2 totally different things lol

**34468 RANDY** · 02-18-2013

I have a dozen or so of those in Chrome still in their wrappers so I think I will pass. Last time I used a cassette, it was so brittle the tape got all bunged up in my machine.

**Explicit_Spade** · 02-19-2013

I wish I had a ghetto blaster to record some cassettes for my truck. I had a Van Halen cassette, but I lost it. I wouldn't say 40 blanks would be worth $40 though...

When I'm buying on e-bay, I look at all the items for sale I'm interested in (Unless I find what I consider a good deal on something ending soon). If I see two of the same thing ending around the same time and one has bids, but the other doesn't, I'm going for the other one. That almost always ensures I pay a lower price. Usually these auctions are 1, 3 or 7 day auctions that start after a longer auction.

The way this works in my favor is people who had already bid on the other items get notifications that they have been outbid or the item they bid on is going to end, so they bid more.

On the other hand, if I get outbid, I will be a douche to the other buyers and bring the price up for the sellers benefit. There's a tactic for this that I use, to ensure I don't end up getting an overpriced item I tried to inflate, but I'm not going to mention that here.

I would rather deal with people on forums than online auctions anyway. Most times on ebay sellers don't give me the answers I want about what I'm buying, where as I can continue communication on forums.