Getting Outbid on Games on Ebay.

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GL2814E

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So who has had this experience?

Recently I have been trying to bid on older games that are now available for the cost of a rental on Ebay. I've won Army of Two for $8.00 so far.

But what usually happens is that when I bid, it looks like I will get a game for a steal of like $2.00 + S&H, and then some tool comes along and actually pays more for the game then they would buying the game from Walmart, used at GameStop, or downloading it from Xbox Live.

WHY?!? How can anyone be that friggin stupid? Is it that secretly the gaming companies are conspiring to keep cheap used games off of the market? WHY?!?!?!?

Why can't I get a game for a obscene bargain? Why must there be jerks who are willing to shell out more clams than something is worth? It would be one thing if I would keep losing to someone who bid a little less than a new copy is worth or what have you, but to keep losing to people overpaying? Ach it confuses the crap out of me.

Seriously I am not really worked up about this, but I am really curious as to why this happens.

Also I want to know if it just me or everyone else. Is it the nature of Ebay?

And before some tool inevitably asks, yes I checked for this thread on the Search Bar. Not seeing it, I went ahead and added it. If you can find it, good for you. You went above and beyond a casual users effort. And you are still a tool.
 

Quiet Stranger

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GL2814E said:
Sev72 said:
More money then sense is your answer.
It just seems so dumb...
Same thing happened to me with a Statue of Spider (Transmetropolitan) it was like a buck one day and then by the end of it.....well lets just say I wouldn't have been able to afford it
 

Capachinola

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Getting outbid on Ebay is why Ebay exists. Its how the seller and Ebay make money. People are addicted to it.
 

Davrel

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Ebay is a pointless circle-jerk - if you want games for guaranteed low prices, just pirate them wait a few months until after their release. With PC games you get the added benefits of patches being available too.

GL2814E said:
And before some tool inevitably asks, yes I checked for this thread on the Search Bar. Not seeing it, I went ahead and added it. If you can find it, good for you. You went above and beyond a casual users effort. And you are still a tool.
I approve of this.
 

Da_Schwartz

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Never on a game no. But once on a comic, i went looking for the first appearance of Juggernaut for my friends b-day. checked all the local shops couldn't find one. ended up in a last minute bidding war that ran about 40 bucks and was eventually outbid by someone with a user id that was the same name as the comic shop i was at a few hours earlier. -_-