Whose buying all the ebay molds?

[ihunts2much]

I looked at the last 7 molds I bid on and saw a pattern in the high bidders, They were different user names, but all had a letter, 3 astrix, and a letter ie., c***p, e***a , a***q. Coincidence or conspiracy?

[GLL]

Those are not user names. EBay assigns a code to each bidder until the bidding is over. The only user name you can actually see while bidding is your own !

Jerry

[10-x]

"feebay" has made a policy of hiding all buyers names with BS symbols. Not sure but "I" figure their days are numbered with the new policy of paypal only.....Credit card rate are fixing to go through the roof...........think feebay/paypal are not going up?.......Hummmmm they own paypal and now anyone doing business on feebay has to use it??????...............let see now........add all the fees for listing up (listing, photos ,ECT) along with the "final value fees" and looks like any "sale" is going to cost the seller about 12% . Wait till this summer........Better off selling it here.!

[ihunts2much]

"Those are not user names. EBay assigns a code to each bidder until the bidding is over. The only user name you can actually see while bidding is your own !"

That solves that, I was starting to wonder what this *** guy was doing with all the molds!

[NSP64]

It is probably to keep people from contacting other bidders to sell them something like they were bidding on without having to list it.

[jhrosier]

It is probably to keep people from contacting other bidders to sell them something like they were bidding on without having to list it.

You got it.
I used to do that from time to time. By looking at the bids, you could see how much a person was actually willing to pay for an item. I made two or three instant sales that way and neither of us had to pay evilbay a penny in commissions. Yep, it was agin their rules but what's wrong with make up new rules that favor the little guy?

The shooting related forums are a much better way to move your spare stuff nowadays, if you are not out to fleece people. That doesn't work in a tight community like ours and sleezeballs are shown the exit real quick, unlike the relative anonimimity of evilbay.

Jack

[cajun shooter]

When you see a bid from someone with only a 2 or 3 behind the name that means thatn is the sales or buys they have completed. My radar goes off on the mold sales of late as these people are rasing the price on all molds. Probably friends or family. If I'm biding on a item and this happens I shut down and stop biding. JUst this past week a 2 person keep rasing my bid so I stoped and he won the item. I then receive this e-mail from the seller stating that he some how found the very same item and that I could have it with a second chance bid. Sounds like a crock from the start. I refused the offer.

[waksupi]

I do know one guy, who casts very little, but buys a lot of molds. He is a shooter, and a collector, or maybe I should say accumulator, or all types of shooting related items. Price is no object to him, if it is something he doesn't have. I imagine there may be a few more of that type around.

[Maven]

"Price is no object to him, if it is something he doesn't have. I imagine there may be a few more of that type around."

After carefully looking at the bidding on molds/moulds on FU-Bay, I've got to wonder whether bidders have more money than brains. Of course, there are bargains to be had, but these are the exception rather than the rule lately.

[Hardcast416taylor]

I agree that they seem to make the rules for business up as they go! I will bid on a mold or 2 and a day before closing the bids have tripled the price. Someone must think the molds are made from old meteroites with diamonds inside them. I also found that by just asking the seller if they would accept a m.o. they all have said yes to date. A friend, yes I have a friend, has tried to sell home made shot on the site. Always gets the boot about 4 days into the 7 day listing. He`s going to try listing it as scrap lead for your own purposes and see how long this listing lasts. Robert

[montana_charlie]

The coded ID's have stopped those 'nasty notes' after the sale...from disgruntled bidders who got outbid. One guy said he had managed to stay as top bidder for six days...so he deserved to win that auction.

It is probably to keep people from contacting other bidders to sell them something like they were bidding on without having to list it.

You got it.
I used to do that from time to time. By looking at the bids, you could see how much a person was actually willing to pay for an item. I made two or three instant sales that way and neither of us had to pay evilbay a penny in commissions. Yep, it was agin their rules but what's wrong with make up new rules that favor the little guy?

The shooting related forums are a much better way to move your spare stuff nowadays, if you are not out to fleece people. That doesn't work in a tight community like ours and sleezeballs are shown the exit real quick, unlike the relative anonimimity of evilbay.

Jack

You think it's wrong to 'fleece' people on a forum (where you are known) but you feel it's Ok to 'fleece' eBay because you can remain anonymous.

Now, maybe you didn't mean to say that you are a 'dishonest sneak thief' when conditions let you hide your identity. And, maybe you didn't intend to say that you are only 'a stand up guy' when lack of anonymity forces you to be.

But that's the way it sounds...
CM

[EDK]

If I have a choice, I buy used moulds, etc. from people on the forums I frequent...it isn't too hard to figure out who is a SOB (or a DOB!) and they don't stick around very long anyhow.

There's a lot of unusual/rare stuff jumping out of people's closets and garages lately....and more to come as the economy stays sluggish or worse. Bargains abound for the guy with a few yankee dollars in his pocket. On the other side, there are speculators who really don't know what they are doing and what a reasonable price is...and people willing to pay those prices. I'm still in shock on what appeared to be a 6 cavity 311 RANCH DOG mould going for $145 BUY NOW in about a day on eBay. A local seller had a MARLIN 336T in primo shape listed 3 times on Gunbroker in the last month ...first two times had a reserve over $500; no sale--reserve not met....last time was a standard auction, no reserve; no bids with a start of $450. Maybe Off Topic, but these two extremes are really amusing.

[NSP64]

I have never contacted someone on -bay about selling like items, but plenty have contacted me after sales end. I was always wary of them, because you don't know who the other bidders were(may have been the seller). I haven't bought anything from -bay since they W/N allow gun parts. Most of my mold purchases/sales have been through here(as you can see I support this site).

I only know why they stopped listing the names or the bidders.

[NSP64]

Bargains abound for the guy with a few yankee dollars in his pocket.

Better spend them now before we have to switch to Euros

[BudRow]

Is it a fact now that Ebay only excepts PayPal as a method of payment?

[Scrounger]

Is it a fact now that Ebay only excepts PayPal as a method of payment?

No, that's a lie. They suggest you use PayPal but the seller has the option to accept other payment if he chooses.

[jameslovesjammie]

I watch ebay for deals, like moulds that are of a design I want and are discontinued, or just plain deals in general. But the old "more money than brains" deal comes up all the time. For example, I was watching a 4 cavity 356637 current production mould. The sprue plate is kinda beat up, and the guy "only cast about 1,000" boolits with it.

Right now, it's at 63.00 with $10 shipping and there's still 3 days left. Midway is selling the same mould right now for $81.00, and their shipping will be about the same. I am watching the mould just for the heck of it. I am willing to bet that when it ends, the price will be the same as a new one, and the guy will have a beat up sprue plate.

[EDK]

I love watching mould sales on eBay....someone gets the "I ain't lettin' that SOB outbid me" syndrome and pays retail+ and exorbitant shipping to boot! AND less than mint condition for the crowning touch.

There are a couple of bids going on now, but neither of them will be the end of the world if I don't get them. I wonder if LYMAN/RCBS has anyone watching the forums and auctions for trends and what moulds need to be designed or re-issued.

[jhrosier]

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You think it's wrong to 'fleece' people on a forum (where you are known) but you feel it's Ok to 'fleece' eBay because you can remain anonymous.

Now, maybe you didn't mean to say that you are a 'dishonest sneak thief' when conditions let you hide your identity. And, maybe you didn't intend to say that you are only 'a stand up guy' when lack of anonymity forces you to be.

But that's the way it sounds...
CM

Your read a lot more into my post than what it said.

What I did was to offer an item that I happened to already have, to a seller who had already expressed an interest in buying the same item for a price that was mutually agreeable. This was after the end of the auction when the potential buyer had not 'won' the item.
I don't see how any of that, other than beating evilbay out of their commision, could be construed as dishonest.

In the future, you might consider using a PM if you intend to call names.


Jack

[JIMinPHX]

Shills?????