Most overpriced ebay o'scope

[grumpydoc]

There are some expensive listings on ebay but this Lecroy 9364 is about the most ridiculous I have seen recently - yours at a staggering £8,950.00   

[KJDS]

I can only assume he's gone on holiday and didn't want to lose his watchers by taking the listings down, so he's just ramped up the prices to a point where nothing will sell.

[lukier]

Check the description. They say the price is 10x of what they think is "market value" and please negotiate. Very odd.

This is ABEX. Very strange company in my opinion. Once in a while they list a lot of gear, usually at rather high prices and they explain it is because they had to start adding VAT to the price. I've noticed many other strange fine prints there. For example collection only, only on Monday, no Paypal, only bank transfer and things like that.

Surprise, surprise - no items in their sold listings (I don't know how long eBay keeps that, 6 months?).

What is their business model? I cannot figure it out at all.

[mubes]

I would suspect they negociate offline and sell directly, bypassing the eBay tax.  Never dealt with them though, so that's only a guess.

DAVE

[grumpydoc]

I would suspect they negociate offline and sell directly, bypassing the eBay tax.  Never dealt with them though, so that's only a guess.

DAVE

Certainly a possibility, looking at "completed listings" shows just one item, a HP  8560A which they had listed at £25k and was ended as the item was no longer available.

They have a Phillips 3092 at £3k - bargain

[mikeselectricstuff]

Definitely an odd bunch -no postage even on small items.

[OldSchoolTechCorner]

Check the description. They say the price is 10x of what they think is "market value" and please negotiate. Very odd.

This is ABEX. Very strange company in my opinion. Once in a while they list a lot of gear, usually at rather high prices and they explain it is because they had to start adding VAT to the price. I've noticed many other strange fine prints there. For example collection only, only on Monday, no Paypal, only bank transfer and things like that.

Surprise, surprise - no items in their sold listings (I don't know how long eBay keeps that, 6 months?).

What is their business model? I cannot figure it out at all.

They sold some items, price on that is unreal, not sure they made a mistake, or actually expect to sell that.

[nctnico]

You guys missed this one:
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tektronix-TDS540-500MHz-4-Channel-Digital-Oscilloscope-GPIB-Spares-or-Repair-/2719786920114192A
This is a very early model and very likely to be beyond repair due to extensive damage caused by leaking capacitors. One or two failed messages in the power on screen can be fixed if lucky. Three messages means FUBAR.

[Muttley Snickers]

You blokes should grab those bargains above whilst you still can, we seem to pay a little bit extra for test equipment down here. I have posted this image once before on the forum and I can assure you that it was a real listing on Ebay, he sold 18 apparently but his postage was a bit expensive for my liking.

[aargee]

It might be worth it if they offer pickup?

[RogerRowland]

I spotted the same seller when I stumbled on this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hamamatsu-C2800-OOS-01-Sampling-Optical-Oscilloscope-350-850nm-/271978721881?hash=item3f5331f259

£74,950 ..... hmmm

[george graves]

I can only assume he's gone on holiday and didn't want to lose his watchers by taking the listings down, so he's just ramped up the prices to a point where nothing will sell.

Yep  - this question comes up every week.  Why I don't know.  But that's how you sneak around ebay's rules.  Nothing notworthy here.

[tooki]

I spotted the same seller when I stumbled on this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hamamatsu-C2800-OOS-01-Sampling-Optical-Oscilloscope-350-850nm-/271978721881?hash=item3f5331f259

£74,950 ..... hmmm

I don't even know what an optical oscilloscope is, but now I want one!