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Handy eBay tools

  • 07-01-2007 7:43am
    #1
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭


    Here's a couple of handy eBay checker sites for us folk that do business (spend too much) on eBay.
    http://www.toolhaus.org/ and http://www.goofbay.co.uk/ebay_tools.html

    For instance I just found out that the lad I use regularly turned over €261,497 in the last 30 days alone! :eek:
    I know it was the Christmas holiday period but....that's mental. I'm in the wrong game :(


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  • #2
    311
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,332 ✭✭✭311


    Is it still safe enough buying stuff on ebay ,without paying taxes?
    I don't have a credit card ,so I've never used Ebay:o


  • #3
    mikeanywhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    I have never had a problem about security. I have also had funds credited back when goods havent been received in fairly quick time too.

    Paypal is generally the safer version as that can take funds from your account directly (only when you say so)


  • #4
    mikeanywhere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    Roen wrote:
    found out that the lad I use regularly turned over €261,497 in the last 30 days alone! :eek:

    Only good if you have the stock to send in the first place. How accurate are those figures as I am sure sellers on Ebay arent going to be too impressed knowing people have a way of knowing that they earned.

    I can the telephone ringing in the tax office with an anonymous tip-off!!


  • #5
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    The usual caveats apply when using eBay, I've never had a problem and bought €$€$€$'s worth of stuff over the last couple of years.
    Just put in a (losing) bid on an EF 200 ƒ1.8 L for the laugh, like I wasn't in enough debt.


  • #6
    leinsterman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭leinsterman


    Good tool thanks for the post ... would never have thought to look for something useful like this ... seems mr hk phooey has made over stg£100k in the last month ... fair play to him ...


    Does anyone know the status of the crack down by the figures of authority on internet purchases ? ... got some investments coming up and would hate to get nabbed by the bad guys ... and thanks to Canon's "harmonisation" of EU pricing ... Ireland is as expensive as ever... but the German option is closed to us!! ... buy Nikon is what I'll be recommending from now on ... despite the fact that I'll be using Canon myself ...


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  • #7
    Roen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,620 ✭✭✭Roen


    mikeanywhere wrote:
    Only good if you have the stock to send in the first place. How accurate are those figures as I am sure sellers on Ebay arent going to be too impressed knowing people have a way of knowing that they earned.

    I can the telephone ringing in the tax office with an anonymous tip-off!!

    True enough about the stock, the guy I use has a physical outlet in HK and I suppose that eBay just gives him the means of broadening his horizons retail wise. The main reason that HK eBayers do so well I imagine is that the pricing policy in Europe and especially in Ireland is skewed.

    I'd say the results returned are deadly accurate as each buyer and item is listed along with it's value and can be crossed referenced to the feedback given and received as well.
    Interestingly the random few people I checked on all from the results page were European based.

    Ebay is public after all, and anyone who wanted to find out exactly what you sold could spend a couple of days checking back through all the transactions you carried out. I think all these sites do is run those queries for you and present them in a palatable fashion.


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