• ebay
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Anyone have some opinions or tips about ebay? I'm thinking about purchasing some older games (90s-mid 2000s), so are there any things I should look out for? I suppose ebay is a reputable website since it's a well established internet success story, but I don't wanna get ripped off by the sellers.
Ebay is retarded.
Get a seller with a good reputation.
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The best advice anyone can give you on eBay is: Try to get a seller with decent feedback (As mentioned in a previous post) Ensure to pay with PayPal to reclaim your money if all goes wrong.
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^ I totaly saw that one coming for a thread with a name like this.
A lot of people are under the impression that waiting until the last second before sneaking in a higher bid on an auctioned item is a viable thing to do (and also are paranoid that someone will do this to them.) Remember, it doesn't work like that, it works on maximum bids. If you put your maximum in straight away, every bid up until that amount will be automated. Example; if someone bids the starting amount for an item, let's say $10, and you put $20 straight away, your bid will appear on the item as $10.50 or so. If they proceed to put $12, your bid will instantly override theirs at $12.50. Therefore, if someone tries to jump your bid with five seconds to go on the auction, you will still win so long as your maximum is above their bid. Of course, you COULD wait until late in the auction before bidding at all, and then bid your full maximum, but if you're bidding against a savvy buyer, their maximum will already be up, and it will boil down to simply which person was willing to pay more in the first place. Basically, if you're new to ebay, you're likely to go through a bit of a phase of powerbrowsing it and checking everything you've bid on/want to bid on. After a while most people come to the realisation that it's better to put the REAL maximum amount you would pay for something from the start, and then leave it the hell alone and check back when it's over to see if you won. For buying old games, beware of sellers that say a game has surface scratches but still works ok. Even if that's true on their system, it's not worth the risk of it freezing up on yours. If it's dirt cheap, there's probably a reason for that. A side note on games, you really should consider the use of an emulator if it's not essential to you to have a tangible product to play with. Games that came out in the 90's are no longer in production, and are no longer sold by their mother companies. They're not profiting from you buying a second-hand copy online - don't worry about the legitimacy of the issue, because there is no way to make a retail purchase of legacy products like that.
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