Chris S
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- Birmingham
The "How much?" or "You're havin' a giraffe!" thread
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Dorset Boy
Well-Known Member
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- North Dorset or a mountain
£5 drop off fee at Bournmouth airport. Total and utter rip off as offically no other way to get there other than by car or taxi
Gwylan
Guru
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- All at sea⛵
Give me a tenner and I'll take it away
FrankCrank
Old layabout
Must admit, not heard of a Sprite before.
A search shows the name used for touring style bikes, and also a mixte version.
This one closely resembles a Twenty, but the rear is different where the chain stays meet the seat tube.
So, a rarity, but worth a ton?
My last Stowaway purchase, a complete and rideable bike, cost a tenner.
There’s an intermittent bus from Bournemouth, but no shuttle as any rational airport would have. All the Taxi companies charge the same exorbitant fare. When we fly we get the train from Poole to Southampton airport parkway and walk the couple of hundred metres into the airport. The train fare is less than the taxo fare and it's a far more pleasant experience.
FrankCrank
Old layabout
Just received a 'seller offer' on this, now for £78.72, which is nice..............and easy to ignore
Gwylan
Guru
- Location
- All at sea⛵
Just received a 'seller offer' on this, now for £78.72, which is nice..............and easy to ignore
How do ther arrive at £78.72?
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
Gwylan
Guru
- Location
- All at sea⛵
FrankCrank
Old layabout
I've had a few of these 'seller offer' deals, and I've managed to resist them all. This takes a special strength of character I think
Hover Fly
He, him, his
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Sometimes I see something I’m interested in, and wait a day or two to see if an offer comes my way.
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
£363 for a tatty, very unoriginal Phillips. It's not even worth that for parts.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256950785258
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256950785258
That seems to be the way ebay works now - watch and wait for an offer.
Irritatingly it seems sellers also have the ability to make offers on items even if you've only just looked at them; which means I get a steady influx of spam relating to stuff I have no intention of buying..
Not sure if this trend towards offers is a reflection of a diminishing appetite for consumption; certainly seems that people aren't falling over themselves to spend their money on non-essentials..
I've also noticed that ebay searches have become increasingly "fuzzy" - often returning results that lack keywords entered or include keywords that were specifically excluded; again forcing you to trawl through reams of stuff you don't want. I wonder if this is ebay's effort to make you buy more crap by unintentional exposure - like shops rearranging their floorplan every ten minutes to prevent you from just going directly to the stuff you know you need.
It seems you might be able to un-enshitificate the search process by putting keywords in quotation marks, but you really shouldn't have to game the search process just to make it work properly.
Yet another reason to shop elsewhere and for new stuff I now try to treat ebay more like an introductions platform - if I can find the seller elsewhere and buy from them direct I'll gladly do so to deprive the site of some revenue; it's often cheaper too.
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Gwylan
Guru
- Location
- All at sea⛵
That's not a Philips, it's a Heinz
I still love eBay!
