5X eBay bucks

galaxy27 · May 18, 2015 9:33PM

5/19, 8 AM to 5/20, 11:59 PM PST

On purchases of $100+

Check your messages...

Raulsmaster · May 18, 2015 9:59PM

I'm all over it!...already have some things sized up

Dboneesq · May 18, 2015 10:20PM

Just received mine.

Edited to add: I know the OP listed the time, but don't forget it doesn't begin until 11:00am Eastern Time! I know a couple of people bought a few items last time about an hour or so before the bonus began!

belz · May 18, 2015 10:27PM

trying to save up for the national...grrrrrrr.

billwaltonsbeard · May 18, 2015 10:42PM

Once again.......I got no message

DanBessette · May 18, 2015 10:58PM

<< Once again.......I got no message >>

I usually do, but not this time.

LarkinCollector · May 18, 2015 11:09PM

<< 

<< Once again.......I got no message >>

I usually do, but not this time. >>

+1, though I've seen some come through late. Sometimes up to an hour or two after the bonus begins.

JBrules · May 18, 2015 11:17PM

Received mine.

kingbeeswax · May 18, 2015 11:47PM

Got it. Starts in 13 minutes

pdub1819 · May 19, 2015 12:00AM

Got mine...luckily an auction I am following ends within the next two days!

kingbeeswax · May 19, 2015 12:02AM

It started!

addicted2ebay · May 19, 2015 12:39AM

Got it! If only it was not maxed out at $100.

KbKards · May 19, 2015 12:44AM

Just ask the seller to "break" in two lots. In lot one for $1000 you get the front, and in lot 2 for a $1000 you get the back.

Davis · May 19, 2015 12:59AM

I've gotten the last few but not seeing this one. Bummer.

Gemyanks10 · May 19, 2015 1:03AM

I just received mine, better late than never. Now have to find something to buy lol.

ThoseBackPages · May 19, 2015 1:05AM

lots of listings ending the next two days!

VitoCo1972 · May 19, 2015 1:20AM

I've generally stopped receiving these altogether. Such a bummer. I always took advantage.

seebelow · May 19, 2015 2:44AM

i still have yet to get one.

Ironmanfan · May 19, 2015 2:57AM

I got one (got one last week as well)

Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to use it however.

IMF

lahmejoon · May 19, 2015 5:06AM

I created a new ebay account a couple of weeks ago and didn't receive one in either of my accounts.

Stone193 · May 19, 2015 5:14AM

I have never been offered this promotion.

Either I don't spend enough? Or too much?

aconte · May 19, 2015 5:20AM

I think Grote just bought the only thing I was looking at.

Darn Mets fan!

aconte

Smittys · May 19, 2015 5:39AM

<< Just received mine.

Edited to add: I know the OP listed the time, but don't forget it doesn't begin until 11:00am Eastern Time! I know a couple of people bought a few items last time about an hour or so before the bonus began! >>

That would have been me LOL

vintagefun · May 19, 2015 6:27AM

I can't help but wonder if the onset of eBay Bucks can be tied to the overall increase in prices. I have a small list of wants of cards over $100. I like to wait until I get a Bucks offer and then I browse those cards. What I keep finding are the cards I'm looking at with BINs are already priced at VCP high for the grade, or sometimes, the grade above. With auctions, you have to hope the auction is set to close within the offer period. In those cases, it can get ugly. Back in November, I ran into a nice card (PSA 6) I wanted, that presented well for the grade, and it coincided with a 5X offer. I justified a bid well over VCP because of the Bucks. I'm guessing the other guy did too. I was the underbidder, and we demolished the previous high. A few weeks later there was also a 4 and a 5 coming up with 3X offer. I won both and set a new high on the 5. If I back out the 6% bucks, I actually paid closer to avg...but VCP can't tell that and thus both the High and the Avg. go up.

I just looked at 3 of the cards I'm wanting. Found examples of each that I'd be happy to own. But even with the 5X, can't justify it, as they all already have BINs either over VCP High or well over the Avg. and a ways off from recent sales.

Just wondering if BIN sellers are pricing higher with assumption that Bucks flow about 5 times per quarter?

Maybe I'm reading too much into a few isolated examples.

Curious.

ElvisP · May 19, 2015 8:51AM

Don't understand sellers sometimes. I am looking for a particular card and the VCP is $183. Only 2 examples on feebay now, $395 and $390 and one of those has a qualifier. This seems to be becoming the norm unfortunately. I got the 5X email and I buy a little and sell a little. I do have pretty high feedback. It says it is for VIP's? Maybe it is based on the amount of feedback?

jfkheat · May 19, 2015 11:23AM

Again, I am excluded from this. I have a hard time believing that the people that get these emails are chosen at random like Ebay claims.
James

charrigan · May 19, 2015 11:33AM

Definitely not random.

Dpeck100 · May 19, 2015 11:42AM

It says a bonus for our VIPs. I haven't been buying or selling much so no telling what it takes to be a VIP.

ndleo · May 19, 2015 12:47PM

I have a buying and selling ID. My selling ID has gotten the last 4 offers including the 5X offer. My buying ID hasn't received any of the last 4 offers.

WalterSobchak · May 19, 2015 10:30PM

<< It says a bonus for our VIPs. I haven't been buying or selling much so no telling what it takes to be a VIP. >>

Ditto. I haven't bought a card in a month, and I've sold exactly one card in the last year or so. The card sold for about twenty bucks.

byronscott4ever · May 19, 2015 11:07PM

I've bought two cards in the last two months and one was free with previous ebay bucks and I got this offer. I got a selling promotion a while ago that probably had to do with me not selling for a while which I didn't use but should have but I agree that the logic behind who gets these and who doesn't is strange.

shagrotn77 · May 19, 2015 11:21PM

I forgot to activate the promo before I paid for an item.

I called eBay and they said I'd have to get the seller to refund me and pay again. Hopefully he'll comply.

Nathaniel1960 · May 20, 2015 12:27AM

Its glitchy like that. I "activate" the ebay bucks promotion, and sometimes it shows up and sometimes it doesn't. Last night, I activated, it showed up, I did best offer and won, and when I went to pay, it didn't reflect on the "You Won" page (it showed the normal ebay bucks amount). So instead of finalizing payment through paypal, I went back out to the home page, activated it again, went back to the "You Won" page, and it showed up with the 5%. I usually need to do this in order to make it work.

JWBlue · June 6, 2015 3:33AM

So what is the consensus on this.

I used to get the offers all the time. I have not bought much lately.

Is the bottom line that offers are only sent to regular or frequent buyers?

Dboneesq · June 6, 2015 6:19AM

<< So what is the consensus on this. I used to get the offers all the time. I have not bought much lately.
Is the bottom line that offers are only sent to regular or frequent buyers? >>

I have purchased very little lately and get the offer all the time.

seebelow · June 6, 2015 6:26AM

i would like to figure their method out...ive still yet to receive an offer..not even 2x bucks...hmmm

gemint · June 6, 2015 6:47AM

<< I've generally stopped receiving these altogether. Such a bummer. I always took advantage. >>

Me too. I haven't received one in about a year. Guess I'll have to create a low feedback buying account.

jfkheat · June 6, 2015 7:30AM

After not getting included for 18 or so months I did get it the last time it was offered. Every time I asked someone at Ebay about it I was told that the people that got the offer were picked at random. I don't believe that is the case.
James

Edit to add: I never received the actual email from Ebay but it was in my Ebay messages.

5X eBay bucks

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