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Re:Inside the strange world of Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage by mmagin on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:35PM (#12177320)
eBay doesn't generally help shoppers make a good decision. Beyond the fact that the web site is a mess, they don't seem to care at all about listings which seem to attempt to match searches with results that aren't what people are looking for. For example: listings only selling the original box an item came in and not the item, listings for a part or manual - both of which make "price: low to high" searches useless.

Looking for certain used electronics (recently music synth stuff, in the past vintage test equipment), I tend to have to select a lot of filtering options: "North american sellers only", "Condition: Used", etc.

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Re:Inside the strange world of Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage by Tempest1981 on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @11:27PM (#12178144)
Amazon has 1 page per product, with all sellers listed, even "used" iirc - nice. eBay is indeed a mess.
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Re:Inside the strange world of Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage by brokenmachine on Thursday July 28, 2016 @02:18AM (#12178664)
The thing I find most annoying on ebay searches is sellers who list multiple items on the one listing.

So if your search is ordered by price, it will show their listing first when in reality, the actual item you're looking for is much more expensive.

I have no idea why ebay allows this to happen.

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Re:Inside the strange world of Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage by Grishnakh on Thursday July 28, 2016 @12:11PM (#12181131)
Amazon is just as bad, if not worse. (Not trying to excuse Ebay here.) I'll frequently do a search on Amazon and see some ultra-low price on something, then click on that to see the product. Half the time, the product page will have a bunch of different options, and the ones you want all cost far more, and only the ugly pink one is cheap, or the one in extra-extra-small. Or sometimes, I won't even be able to find the one at that ultra-low advertised price. Or it'll be in the "other sellers" section, along with a gigantic shipping fee.
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