Check out this ebay idiot!

[MrsMerryHenry]

Add up the opening bid plus p&p...then look closely at the photo!

PMSL

Exuncly, TeamEdward!

Can I at least send you some flower-power 'love makes the world go round' emoticons with teddy bear faces? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease??

Bootiful, thanks! Glistening and in pristine condition!

here's something for you

I'm sorry, that was truly awful. Let me make up for it with something else that made me ROFL

OK, 1) you can't add the cost of the postae really, as that will be spent on the postage, so seller will make less than the ticket price if they go for opening bid, and
2) things don't have intrinsic value because tthey have a price sticker, they are worth whatever people want to pay for them.

Don't see the need to call the seller an idiot.

Proverbial - as TE said above it's the inclusion of original price in photo that we're ROFLing about!

I actually think that the inclusion of the price sticker can work positively, in a psychological way.

a) it shows that the seller has nothing to hide.
b) it proves that the item is originally worth at least £2.50.
c) it proves that the seller has put the item on at a fair starting bid of 99p.

Maybe the seller bought them for her child and ended up not using them (has happened to me) or bought them cheap in a charity shop (has happened to me) or had them bought for her and didn't like them (has also happened to me). She didn't necessarily buy them specifically to sell on ebay.

If you paid £2.50 for something which you end up not using, it's better to get 99p back for it then nothing surely.

And don't forget a lot of ebay buyers live in remotes parts of the UK - I have sold loads of things to people in the Orkneys etc who don't have instant access to Primark, Next etc..

Yeah, I get that Merry henry, I just don't see its any reason to call them an idiot. You can tell from the brand/type pretty much what they cost new anyway, its not exactly a shcoker to see the sticker on it.

Not as idiotic as my DH, who bought a DVD off ebay and it arrived from Amazon in its Amazon packaging - ie the seller "sold" it then just ordered it from Amazon direct to us and pocketed it the couple of quid difference. Really annoying thing (as well as us not checking Amazon first) was that he charged us postage but got free postage from Amazon.

I've also seen vouchers/gift cards go for more than they're actually worth - now that's really silly!