What Am I Missing?

[Charles Rice]

I'll start right off by saying I don't do e-Bay, but I do watch it now and then just to see what things are going for. I saw this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/MONTBLANC-MIDNIGHT-BLACK-INK-BOTTLE-60-ML-BRAND-NEW-IN-BOX-/171654302746?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27f764cc1a which is for a bottle of MB Midnight Blue (it's listed as black). So tell my why it's listed for MORE than normal retail by at least $7.00. Would anyone buy it???

 

It strikes me that there are at least a few thieves there.

Edited January 30, 2015 by Charles Rice

[Helen350]

Probably not the true FP diehards who know how to keep watch on currect market pricing. There was an ink I saw recently which was going for $100 a bottle, because it is no longer sold here in the States. I laughed, as I continued to do my pricing homework. Unfortunately, there just might be an extremely small segment of buying populace, who will break down and buy an overpriced ink. Like yourself, I am beginning to wonder why this overpricing issue is being seen on Ebay. In the past week I was pricing an Iro ink that was going for $29 on Ebay, which was selling for $16.69 on Amazon. Big price difference.

[Barkingpig]

A few $ more for ink is easier for me to understand than seeing a Krone pen on Ebay today for $400 that Fountain Pen Hospital currently has on their site for $189.00 ( MSRP is $450) I can see not "shopping around" for a bottle of ink when it is a smaller purchase. BUT surely people check about before buying a $400 pen? And it isn't as though FPH is a "secret" it is practically the only pen store remaining in the largest city in the US!

[Charles Rice]

I suppose that there are those who believe if they get something on e-Bay that they are getting some kind of great deal. There's one born every minute.

[stephanos]

There is a difference between an item being offered for sale at a particular price and its being sold at that price.

[Sasha Royale]

Many people think in terms of "price = cost + a fair profit". Sometimes, the question, to be posed,

is "How badly do you want this one ?"

 

What's the online asking price of Super Bowl tickets ?