How to be a pro at ebay

[hardtofindinthefuture]

ive seen people who get cheap PC parts from ebay, but how do they do it?!

 

If anyone has any tips, that would be great!

 

[ARikozuM]

I don't think they allow those kinds of services. 

[Canada EH]

You need to search and follow and bid. I have gotten some amazing deals on ebay.

[hardtofindinthefuture]

1 hour ago, ARikozuM said:

I don't think they allow those kinds of services. 

what?

1 hour ago, Canada EH said:

You need to search and follow and bid.

ive tried that, and at the last minute the price shoots up on the stuff i wanted to buy

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Just now, v0nn_toaster said:

ive tried that, and at the last minute the price shoots up on the stuff i wanted to buy

That's how it works because everyone does that "wait and then swoop in at the last second" strategy.  I think it's basically luck lol

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, v0nn_toaster said:

ive tried that, and at the last minute the price shoots up on the stuff i wanted to buy

Most of the bidding happens in the last 30 to 10 seconds. Be prepared to watch a price go from $10 to $70 in that time

[Canada EH]

2 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

ive tried that, and at the last minute the price shoots up on the stuff i wanted to buy

 

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

That's how it works because everyone does that "wait and then swoop in at the last second" strategy.  I think it's basically luck lol

Yes that is what I do, I set the price in my mind and a minute away, I go just above bid, and set max bid. But sometimes there are no other bidders. Like old ipods and old cell phones for example. Like iphone 5 for $25.

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Thanks to everyone so far

 

Any tips for searching for items that most people wouldn't find?

[Emanuel_M]

Some buyers have a bot that will automatically bid for them, therefore winning the auction or like they say sniping the deal.

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Just now, Emanuel_M said:

Some buyers have a bot that will automatically bid for them, therefore winning the auction or like they say sniping the deal.

huh...

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2 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

Thanks to everyone so far

 

Any tips for searching for items that most people wouldn't find?

you can find fake GPUs searching "750 Ti for nvidia" for example.  The key is the "for nvidia" part - it shows it's not a real one or it would just say "nvidia Geforce <etc>".  Buy it, notice that it's a fake, complain and get refund, hopefully get to keep card, repeat for infinite free average cards lol

[Canada EH]

2 minutes ago, Emanuel_M said:

Some buyers have a bot that will automatically bid for them, therefore winning the auction or like they say sniping the deal.

Yeah that no doubtly is true.

They have multiple accounts.

[hardtofindinthefuture]

6 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

you can find fake GPUs searching "750 Ti for nvidia" for example.  The key is the "for nvidia" part - it shows it's not a real one or it would just say "nvidia Geforce <etc>".  Buy it, notice that it's a fake, complain and get refund, hopefully get to keep card, repeat for infinite free average cards lol

well i see your logic but what if i want CPUs and other things

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1 minute ago, v0nn_toaster said:

well i see your logic but what if i want CPUs and other things

once you collect lots of 550 Tis and maybe some actual 750Tis if you're lucky, you could resell those (legitimately, as in, say what they really are instead of calling a bios-flashed 750 Ti a 960 lol), and then use the money to buy CPUs

[hardtofindinthefuture]

12 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

once you collect lots of 550 Tis and maybe some actual 750Tis if you're lucky, you could resell those (legitimately, as in, say what they really are instead of calling a bios-flashed 750 Ti a 960 lol), and then use the money to buy CPUs

and how effective is the method lol 

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1 minute ago, v0nn_toaster said:

and how effective is the method lol 

I guess it depends how hardcore you go at it.  @iamdarkyoshi has had some success with this but it's certainly not a get rich quick scheme

[hardtofindinthefuture]

6 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I guess it depends how hardcore you go at it.  @iamdarkyoshi has had some success with this but it's certainly not a get rich quick scheme

what if i dont want to do that? got any other tips?

 

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3 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

what if i dont want to do that? got any other tips?

 

Well that's just one thing I know of Other than that, I suppose just keep an eye out for sales where people clearly don't know what they have and have under-priced it, or things that they are selling cheap because it's broken but you are pretty sure what the cause is and you know how to fix.  You can also buy crates of "broken" CPUs by the pound and either extract and resell the gold, or just test the CPUs - you might find a surprising number actually work perfectly still

[hardtofindinthefuture]

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I suppose just keep an eye out for sales where people clearly don't know what they have and have under-priced it, or things that they are selling cheap because it's broken but you are pretty sure what the cause is and you know how to fix.  You can also buy crates of "broken" CPUs by the pound

how do i find these ads? searching "broken intel" doesn't really yield anything helpful

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1 minute ago, v0nn_toaster said:

how do i find these ads? searching "broken intel" doesn't really yield anything helpful

Some permutation of the words "CPUs for scrap gold recovery" should do it

[hardtofindinthefuture]

7 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

people clearly don't know what they have and have under-priced it, or things that they are selling cheap because it's broken but you are pretty sure what the cause is and you know how to fix.

aaaand how do i find these

[Canada EH]

I dont think that method is really worth the hassle. Depends if you got a good paying job or not. Time is money, money is time.

 

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6 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

aaaand how do i find these

Those are things you will just sort of stumble across, but odds are you will have better luck with whole systems than with individual parts.  Also watch out for the opposite effect - people massively overpricing things because they don't know how bad it is lol

[hardtofindinthefuture]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

whole systems

about those, when i look up like dell dekstop i just get shitty ads like these

how do i look up like oem systems for not overpriced prices 

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1 minute ago, v0nn_toaster said:

about those, when i look up like dell dekstop i just get shitty ads like these

how do i look up like oem systems for not overpriced prices 

The language used will be that of someone who doesn't know what they are doing, so it will be very sparse on details (intel CPU, for example), or it will be excessively verbose (Intel® 4th Generation Haswell Core™ i7-4770K Processor, 8M Cache, up to 3.90 GHz, for example, as if they just copy pasted from some system info tool).