Most overpriced ebay o'scope - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: grumpydoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2015, 05:24:34 pm
content: There are some expensive listings on ebay butthis Lecroy 9364is about the most ridiculous I have seen recently - yours at a staggering £8,950.00

author: KJDS
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2015, 05:47:42 pm
content: 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.

author: lukier
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 07, 2015, 05:57:19 pm
content: 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.

author: mubes
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2015, 06:11:50 pm
content: 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

author: grumpydoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2015, 07:01:11 pm
content: Quote from: mubes on September 07, 2015, 06:11:50 pmCertainly 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

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2015, 07:42:13 pm
content: Definitely an odd bunch -no postage even on small items.

author: OldSchoolTechCorner
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2015, 08:15:36 pm
content: Quote from: lukier on September 07, 2015, 05:57:19 pmThey sold some items, price on that is unreal, not sure they made a mistake, or actually expect to sell that.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 07, 2015, 08:19:28 pm
content: You guys missed this one:www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Tektronix-TDS540-500MHz-4-Channel-Digital-Oscilloscope-GPIB-Spares-or-Repair-/2719786920114192AThis 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.

author: Muttley Snickers
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 08, 2015, 07:01:33 am
content: 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.

author: aargee
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2015, 08:12:13 am
content: It might be worth it if they offer pickup?

author: RogerRowland
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2015, 08:58:17 am
content: 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

author: george graves
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2015, 11:32:22 am
content: Quote from: KJDS on September 07, 2015, 05:47:42 pmYep - this question comes up every week. Why I don't know. But that's how you sneak around ebay's rules. Nothing notworthy here.

author: tooki
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 08, 2015, 11:38:20 am
content: Quote from: RogerRowland on September 08, 2015, 08:58:17 amI don't even know what an optical oscilloscope is, but now I want one!