The general rule with eBay and other internet purchases: if it looks too good to be true, it probably is
Hell, the New York Times just did a piece on an internet eyeglass vendor that was deliberately dicking people over, it's an unfortunately common occurrence
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
edited November 2010
It's a knock off. Looking at the dude's feedback he's sold dozens of these for a fraction of the retail price.
Well if the picture is indeed what he's selling, it may just be stolen goods. That's an unreasonably good knock off if that's the case. It could just be a picture of an item he owns and he just sells the knock offs.
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OnTheLastCastlelet's keep it haimish for the peripateticRegistered Userregular
It's either a knockoff, or it's stolen. The fact it has a tag with a UPC on it means it either came from store stock that had already been tagged (since were it to come directly from the designer, it would only have the designer's tag on it as every store has different UPCs), or they're sticking fake tags on it to make it look like it was purchased from a store. Either way, there's no way they purchased it for any amount that would make selling it for $39 profitable.
:edit: Also, if you check the other auctions they're running for those scarves, every single tag is identical, all the numbers are the same, which I'm guessing wouldn't be the case for a company trying to keep track of how many of each color they're selling. So I'm going to go with the tags being bogus.
Ebay is used by such an incredible number of people that any product sold on it averages out to the correct price almost every single time. If you see something selling for significantly less than it should be worth, there is a reason, and it isn't "I'm the lucky person who found it cheap!"
Maybe a store went out of business and this guy bought a box of it for $1000 in an auction himself. Maybe he's banking on a low bid to drive it up. I mean Let's say he has 40 scarfs in that box and he's willing to eat a little bit of money in the hopes that 10 of those auctions make it past $100. Lots of scenarios. If it were me I wouldn't be looking for a deal rather than "Would I like to wear this?"
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not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
The general rule with eBay and other internet purchases: if it looks too good to be true, it probably is
Hell, the New York Times just did a piece on an internet eyeglass vendor that was deliberately dicking people over, it's an unfortunately common occurrence
the other way around works like that too, some guys went on amsterdam main street with some real rolexes , selling them for 200 euro. no-one wanted to buy them
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Deebaseron my way to work in a suit and a tieAhhhh...come on fucking guyRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
Even if it were stolen, the criminals could get a much better return with a lot less legal exposure by using consignment shops.
The general rule with eBay and other internet purchases: if it looks too good to be true, it probably is
Hell, the New York Times just did a piece on an internet eyeglass vendor that was deliberately dicking people over, it's an unfortunately common occurrence
the other way around works like that too, some guys went on amsterdam main street with some real rolexes , selling them for 200 euro. no-one wanted to buy them
Well, this was just him proving that no one trusts such a deal, right? That's because in real situations no one would be doing that!
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Hell, the New York Times just did a piece on an internet eyeglass vendor that was deliberately dicking people over, it's an unfortunately common occurrence
:edit: Also, if you check the other auctions they're running for those scarves, every single tag is identical, all the numbers are the same, which I'm guessing wouldn't be the case for a company trying to keep track of how many of each color they're selling. So I'm going to go with the tags being bogus.
Maybe a store went out of business and this guy bought a box of it for $1000 in an auction himself. Maybe he's banking on a low bid to drive it up. I mean Let's say he has 40 scarfs in that box and he's willing to eat a little bit of money in the hopes that 10 of those auctions make it past $100. Lots of scenarios. If it were me I wouldn't be looking for a deal rather than "Would I like to wear this?"
the other way around works like that too, some guys went on amsterdam main street with some real rolexes , selling them for 200 euro. no-one wanted to buy them
Well, this was just him proving that no one trusts such a deal, right? That's because in real situations no one would be doing that!