(01-12-2018 06:21 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote: Hello!
(01-12-2018 05:47 PM)Michael de Estrada Wrote: If you are foolish enough to overpay for something that is available from someone else for far less, then shame on you for not doing your research.
Where I live, ripping of "foolish" people is called fraud. And this is what I think of it as well. Imagine my wife or my mom who both know I collect calculators want to buy me a birthday present. They will soon find out that about the only remaining source for such stuff is eBay. Not knowing much about calculators and not knowing much about eBay they may end up buying stuff from people like this (ex) Coburlin. He has good quality products that no one else has and 100% rating. I cetrainly wouldn't want that to happen. And would it really be "foolish" of them to do it? What kind of research are they supposed to do?
Luckily there are other examples of calculator collectors who (at least partly) finance their hobby through buying and selling stuff wihout ripping off the poor "foolish" ones among us. For example "datamath-calculator-museum", "frodo_baggins_uk", "typenkorb" or "waterhosko" (who manufactues and sells mostly home-made replacement battery packs for ridiculously low money) and a few more. (BTW: According to the forum rules we are supposed to state our own eBay name when writing down other people's names. If anyone is interested I will PM them my eBay alias, but I won't write it here next to my real name as every internet harvest bot will then be able to link the two).
Regards
Max
This is exactly why I sell stuff on eBay as auctions. Let the market decide what something is worth. No one is going to cheat me out of something because they are a shark and I don't know the detailed ins and outs of a specific item pricing. Sometimes I am even surprised at the price something I have sells for, when I had no idea.
.....Art
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