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if you want to make money

just write pamphlets telling other people how to make money and sell them on ebay.

simples.

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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:31, archived)

even better

sell a link to a site that sells the pamphlets that tell you how to make money

that way you don't waste any money on pamphlet overhead :)

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discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:33, archived)

I once came across an ebay auction just selling the URL to a flight search website for £2

The seller included a screenshot so I just googled a couple of sentences and found it. I wonder how many people actually bought it. Scary.

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zeltergiset, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:34, archived)

I found an auction selling a load of hacker videos

foolishly, it listed the titles of the hacker videos

searching on google on those titles found the hacker website with the videos available for free :D

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discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:37, archived)

I guess if just one person buys it pays for the auction...

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zeltergiset, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:41, archived)

yeah

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discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:42, archived)

selling..a url?

to a search website?

hmmm.

that doesn't sound as good as your drug dealing or Pasanonic's pyramid schemes, really.

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The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:38, archived)

be afraid

people pay for this shit

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discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:40, archived)

If there's a market...

eBay is weird, though. The same thing (a second-hand video game, say) can go for two very different prices even though the bidders can see all auctions, and thus have 'perfect' information on the market.

But they are lazy :)

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The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:42, archived)

anyone got that link for the bottle of beer that was used in some antarctic expedition

went for peanuts

then the buyer listed it

and it went for like 60 thousand or something

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discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:45, archived)

I bought my watch on ebay last year for about £20

There was an identical one selling at exactly the same time for £60, and it was attracting way more bids. It even had the same auction title and picture.

And of course there's stuff like this...

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zeltergiset, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:46, archived)

I've said it before, and I will say it again.

People are fucking idiots.

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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:48, archived)

reselling of gift certificates makes some sense in that you can't usually trade them back for cash

so if someone gives it you as a gift, it's the only way to 'monetize' it :)

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The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:54, archived)

I think it is more the fact that people are buying a

$50 gift card for more than that :D

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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:58, archived)

hahahahahahahahaha

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discomeats This canoe, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:55, archived)

My 'didn't win'

folder is full of stuff like this. Just checking now there are two identical graphics cards from the same seller and one went for £51, the other for £31 which was above my limit of £20 ( a price which I have bought and resold plenty at )
Some people won't do the work when they want a single purchase.

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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:59, archived)

Not all people are equal

People don't want perfect prices. They will settle for good enough prices, where good enough is based on their financial circumstances, value placed on convenience (cost of delay, time saved shopping etc.).

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numberbruncher - correct by nature, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 2:10, archived)

Tell you what though, it's a hell of a site

Leave a crisp fiver under the big rock by the gate of the suspicious-looking barn just outside Princes Risborough, Bucks and I'll let you know.

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zeltergiset, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 1:41, archived)