Is eBay considered gambling?

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mt_msla
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  • Walkerfan
    Walkerfan Posts: 10,391 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Just like any place else you have to sift through the dreck to find the diamonds in the rough.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

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  • MorganMan94
    MorganMan94 Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Not at all. If a buy something rather it be a coin, shirt, Ipad, whatever it may be there is a 100% chance that is going to show up or I am going to get my money back.

  • BillDugan1959
    BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    If you swallow way too much hopium, your personal judgement can easily become impaired.

    But that is generally not the fault of the sales venue.

  • Timbuk3
    Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I don't think it's a gamble for me. They have return policies and PayPal protection !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • jt88
    jt88 Posts: 3,564 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Better than the auction house because you can return anything you don’t like.

  • mannie gray
    mannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    As a seller, yes. (Auctions especially.)
    As a buyer, not so much.

  • Aspie_Rocco
    Aspie_Rocco Posts: 3,872 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It is a gamble when you are a seller with 0.01¢-0.99¢ Start prices.

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  • Coinstartled
    Coinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Bought an accounting ledger on Ebay and it arrived in an Amazon envelope. If I wanted to buy it on Amazon I would have done so.

    World is getting strange.

  • BillDugan1959
    BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    In small electronics, there are many eBay sellers who have no inventory.

    If you order from them, they have a third party send you the stuff. You pay them, they pay the party with the inventory, and presumably there is money left over for the seller.

    Kinda what APMEX is doing on many items.

    As a buyer, how much time will you spend to find the cheapest deal?

  • Coinstartled
    Coinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 19, 2018 11:06PM
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    @BillDugan1959 said:
    In small electronics, there are many eBay sellers who have no inventory.

    If you order from them, they have a third party send you the stuff. You pay them, they pay the party with the inventory, and presumably there is money left over for the seller.

    Kinda what APMEX is doing on many items.

    Ordered a box of 100 paper clips on Ebay once for a buck. Arrived in a shoeboxed size carton from Costco. Not sure how they all split up the bounty.

  • BillDugan1959
    BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Presumably your order was one of many for the seller. They look at the whole elephant, not just a single toenail. And some sellers/resellers don't make it.

  • ARCO
    ARCO Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Sending coins into PCGS for grading is much more of a gamble😀

  • derryb
    derryb Posts: 38,604 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    No, not with buyer protection

    Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. - Bastiat

  • Namvet69
    Namvet69 Posts: 9,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Only if you're buying from ghina. Peace Roy

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  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    They could open an online poker site.... That would be cool... ;) There used to be a few of those... then the government got involved and closed them down...now they are back in a limited fashion. I have not played the new one's....Could make some money on the old sites. Cheers, RickO

  • ctf_error_coins
    ctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @ricko said:
    They could open an online poker site.... That would be cool... ;) There used to be a few of those... then the government got involved and closed them down...now they are back in a limited fashion. I have not played the new one's....Could make some money on the old sites. Cheers, RickO

    This!!! Real money online poker is NOT gambling as it is a game of SKILL.

  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @ErrorsOnCoins .... Totally true ... Dolly Brunson himself said he could probably win in most poker games without cards....His book is a great read....Definitely a skill based game. Cheers, RickO

  • TwoSides2aCoin
    TwoSides2aCoin Posts: 45,216 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Life is , if you're asking me.

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