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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: sixty on Wed, 16 February 2011, 10:45:59

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Post by: sixty on Wed, 16 February 2011, 10:45:59

wrong forum, so many sub forums are way confusing. imav: please delete this thread.

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Post by: sixty on Wed, 16 February 2011, 10:58:46

Haha, very true.

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Post by: chimera15 on Wed, 16 February 2011, 11:36:57

Quote from: ripster;296124

I'd leave it.

Kind of a Zen statement showing the futility of Capitalism.

Or properly reflecting the Economics of Ebay.

For there IS no such thing as a "Good Deal" on Ebay.

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(http://www.mikeonads.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/supply_demand_11.JPG)

(with rare microeconomic exceptions)

You need to add Chinese dumping into that though, then there are.

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Post by: DanGWanG on Wed, 16 February 2011, 11:50:50

I think of rebates in the same rhetorical manner.  Though I guess, these days, they actually have tracking and use pre-paid gift cards.

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Post by: snerual on Wed, 16 February 2011, 12:07:58

Good thread!

I don't mind eBay and you can still find some decent deals there, especially when the product description is lacking, or the seller doesn't know much about the actual product. That said, I found the local classifieds to usually have much better pricing.

On that note, here's my contribution to nothing:

(http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/6057/nothingd.jpg)

(Hey, where else than a 'nothing' thread can I post my kiddy rubber dome board on geekhack, right?)

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Post by: chimera15 on Wed, 16 February 2011, 12:10:31

Quote from: ripster;296161

I dunno.

DealExtreme is a classic example.  I get 3 cree flashlights at great prices after waiting 3 weeks.  1 of which doesn't work.  RMAing it would cost more than the flashlight is worth.

Is that a good deal?

I bought 2 lcd lvds driver cards that drive old laptop lcds and turn them into standard vga monitors/tvs from China for like $50 each.  

The only other ones I could find in America were several hundred $.  One failed, the other has lasted me several years.

http://cgi.ebay.com/5451-Audio-LCD-Controller-Board-laptop-LVDS-DVI-VGA-/270695963921?pt=COMP_EN_Networking_Components&hash=item3f06bc9d11 (http://cgi.ebay.com/5451-Audio-LCD-Controller-Board-laptop-LVDS-DVI-VGA-/270695963921?pt=COMP_EN_Networking_Components&hash=item3f06bc9d11)

With that, a 15 inch lcd I bought for about $50, and a used wacom intuos3 9x12 that I bought off ebay for $200 or so, they cost more than $300 used at the time I made a home made wacom cintiq  that costs thousands of dollars from wacom. I'm still winning, by a lot.

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Post by: bugfix on Thu, 17 February 2011, 06:04:11

I suggests using this thread as the online equivalent of benches in shopping malls, so that we can recreate between browsing shopping threads.

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Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 17 February 2011, 06:35:39

Nothing.

That's typically what I find in this section of the forums.

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Post by: mr_a500 on Thu, 17 February 2011, 06:43:47

I just did a search on eBay for "nothing" and I got: "31,108 results found for nothing".

There's a whole lot of nothing on eBay.

(On a side note, there are "11,748 results found for junk" and "4,290 results found for crap". Check this out. (http://cgi.ebay.com/LIQUID-ASS-Believe-me-CRAP-NASTY-stinks-/140510907920) )

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Post by: DanGWanG on Thu, 17 February 2011, 10:18:41

We should sticky this thread.

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Post by: noctua on Thu, 17 February 2011, 10:46:10

Pity! Wild Duck, is present on deskthority.net..