This time of year some people have money to spend on higher dollar stuff. But ebay puts a quick damper on the collecting jones.
start with a small 1 ounce widget that is worth about $1/dozen, listed on ebay for $19.99 plus $17.95 shipping.
Knowing that ebay sucks bigtime you search the web instead, Then you have some douchebag secondary sites (read: fake store or spam -ei a site that calls itself joe blow's widget store but it's not a store at all, just a feed of ebay listings which all link straight back to ebay) embedding the stuff, leading to it getting picked up by these shady price guide sites... Next ebay idiot that has the same thing sees it, lists it for insane prices.... well you get the picture.
Market price manipulation based on garbage, lies and sky high greed. The widgets were never worth that, NEVER EVER sold for that much no matter how many times they got listed for those outrageouss amounts.
There is so much garage sale leftover crap on ebay (and now the fake stores and price guide sites) that should have just stayed on the curb night before trash pickup it's not funny. No way is anyone going to buy that crap.
Not to mention shipping, seen the majority of items wanting waaaaaay too much. $95- 175 to ship a <20lb, $20 max item? Really? you lose, douchebay. No wonder everyone files for the money back gaurantee. Nothing left there but scammer vs scammer.
