geekhack

geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: didjamatic on Tue, 01 June 2010, 16:09:43

Title: Model M Space Savers
Post by: didjamatic on Tue, 01 June 2010, 16:09:43

$100 BIN (http://cgi.ebay.com/NIB-Vintage-IBM-Clicky-PS2-SpaceSave-Keyboard-M-1397681-/250643219718?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item3a5b800506#ht_500wt_957)
$100 BIN (http://cgi.ebay.com/NIB-Vintage-IBM-Clicky-PS2-SpaceSave-Keyboard-M-1397681-/250643219271?cmd=ViewItem&pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item3a5b800347#ht_500wt_957)

Title: Model M Space Savers
Post by: nowsharing on Tue, 01 June 2010, 16:15:02

I bought those by asking the seller to change the price to BIN for me.

Title: Model M Space Savers
Post by: didjamatic on Tue, 01 June 2010, 16:22:02

Yeah, congrats.  They don't have any more either, I already asked.

Title: Model M Space Savers
Post by: didjamatic on Tue, 01 June 2010, 16:33:55

Posting from phone while reloading my laptop at work after installing the wrong version of 7 on it... So I was lazy in my congratulations.  I will send balloons and confetti later

Title: Model M Space Savers
Post by: nowsharing on Tue, 01 June 2010, 16:39:48

Thanks all! I'm still in shock that I won these. I came home from a walk and read the email saying that she changed the auction to BIN and almost had a heart attack scrambling to get them.

Quote

Boy, what a quick $199 if you just turned it.

And give up those cute blue logos? Never!...OK, my plan is to actually sell one back on Ebay to justify keeping the other.

Title: Model M Space Savers
Post by: kishy on Tue, 01 June 2010, 16:45:55

Quote from: nowsharing;188751

my plan is to actually sell one back on Ebay to justify keeping the other.

Sounds like what I did with the dual Industrial purchase...except you might aim a little higher price-wise lol

Title: Model M Space Savers
Post by: nowsharing on Tue, 01 June 2010, 17:21:33

Ebay sellers are generally not the smartest folks. Some certainly are, but they're the exception.

This woman just wanted the quick money, and thought me the fool for paying so much for her wares. They all want quick money.

I had an interesting purchase last week however.

I saw a boxed M with 6 days left at $0.99 w/$50 shipping.

The seller told me (in typical ebay seller stuttering caveman dialect) that the shipping would actually be around $10. I asked to buy it for $30 shipped, he said sure! I told him to just end the auction early or make it BIN and I'd take it. Days start passing and he wasn't responding to my emails, and no one was bidding.

The auction (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120571851183) ended at $0.99, and of course the seller starts demanding the $30 that "we had agreed to."

Here, for your amusement, are my communications with that seller:

Quote

yes shipping is around $10.00

Quote

yes it comes in box

Quote

R u still want n item  thanks

Quote

sounds great

Response to my offer

Quote

its not that amount i believe we had a set price do you remember

Despite the fact that I told him that I had decided to just bid because he hadn't ended the auction.

Title: Model M Space Savers
Post by: kriminal on Tue, 01 June 2010, 17:22:00

Quote from: webwit;188759

I once auctioned something on ebay which I thought was of no value and a bunch of idiots started mailing me with their questions and quick deal proposals. Thanks for the alarm, suckers.

there are some people out there that think model m spacesaving is of no value.. might be OCN members...

Title: Model M Space Savers
Post by: nowsharing on Tue, 01 June 2010, 17:28:51

Quote

The problem with his strategy is that for every sucker he finds, he warns of 9 others.

The problem for the sellers is, when I find a great auction it is generally mislabeled. So even if they did suddenly come to their senses, the only option they would have is to just start from scratch with a new auction, and I've never seen that happen.

Title: Model M Space Savers
Post by: Half-Saint on Wed, 02 June 2010, 01:04:52

#$%!@#%& I am so green with envy! :D

Title: Model M Space Savers
Post by: Buckling_Summer on Wed, 02 June 2010, 07:59:13

Me too

Title: Model M Space Savers
Post by: ricercar on Fri, 04 June 2010, 13:09:10

duuuude. sweet.