Dumbest seller in ebay history?

Yankees001

Check out this guys auctions and ended auctions. He's losing money on every transaction.

link

This is funny.

Dave

cpamike

Wow, interesting business model. I hope he works for the USPS and can hand deliver all of these.

jrboles

Paul McElroy: A lot of people don't realize that change is a two-way street. You can come in with sixteen quarters, eight dimes, and four nickels - we can give you a five-dollar bill. Or we can give you five singles. Or two singles, eight quarters, and ten dimes. You'd be amazed at the variety of the options you have.

Customer #3: I was driving through Pennsylvania on the tollway, and to save time I was using the exact-change lanes. I had just run out of quarters, and I was getting a bit nervous when I spotted a sign for a Citiwide branch at the next exit. Let me tell you, it was a pretty good feeling.

Paul McElroy: I have had people come in with wrinkled ten-dollar bills to exchange for new crisp bills to put in birthday cards. We can handle special requests like that, usually in the same day.

Customer #4: I'd just returned from a business trip to London, and all the cash I had was a five-pound note. Citiwide wasn't able to convert it to dollars, but they did give me four guineas, two crowns, four shillings, and ten pence.

Paul McElroy: All the time, our customers ask us, "How do you make money doing this?" The answer is simple: Volume. That's what we do.

footlong

kinda like the fellows from georgia buying peaches for 50 cents each and selling them in new york 2 for a dollar. his partner said "we're not making any money", the brains of the outfit replied "we need a bigger truck".

JohnnyD

Guy probably has free shipping available to him - maybe throws the envelopes into the mail drop where he works - and this is an easy way to build up your feedback. When he gets to 100 or so he will put up that fake graded Mantle rookie his dead grandfather left him.

lifeshouldbefun

Feedback Builder. I did it a while back, built the feedback with junk stuff, before bringing out the heavy artillery.
Beware the fake 52 Mantle

TonyC

It probably is feedback building, when you're new to eBay you are limited to 10 items per month. As you sell items, over time they raise your limits.



That said, he should be using his 10 items per month to sell something significant, rather than peddling junk.

therebelas

Just contacted him trying to work out a deal for all the metal paperclips he has in his inventory. Wish me luck.

Stone193

I'm guessing if FB building is the goal? At the same time, one can pick up unwanted negatives. So while the "number" is increasing, the "rating" is decreasing?

Interesting.

mtcards

I would think if you wanted to build your feedback, you would BUY items like this, not sell them

pclpads

Was gonna bid on the paper clips but seller never posted a scan of the backs.

mlbfan2

<< <i>I would think if you wanted to build your feedback, you would BUY items like this, not sell them >>



It's not the same. You can't get 5 stars when you buy something.

zep33

classic

Foo3112

That paperclip is too funny. Usually people who throw in free shipping, its kinda like someone mentioned, they have access to a stamp machine through work or they probably work in the mail dept at there job. Lots of times the post office will deliver the mail and not mark the postage so with careful peeling, it can actually be reused. Happens all the time.

RipublicaninMass

most likely some sort of fraud, back in the old days people would sell PDF files for 1 cent each to build up feedback

Yankees001

I'm glad everyone likes this seller.

BTW, Good luck with buying all the Paperclips. I hope you get a good deal.

Dave

mtcards

I wonder why he stopped selling the pistachio recipe? It seemed like a good seller and he was getting more than just a penny