Found some eBay sellers such as Loopmobile or Greengadget (Mobileworld) increase their prices during the black friday promotion.
For example, an Apple watch was listed at around $650 but when the 20%/22% promotion discount is out, they increase it to $850 which means you still get the same price as before or even higher (850 * 0.8 = 680).
A bit disappointed.
Seems like I am new and naive đ
uncle jack always comes for visit during the silly season
They've been doing this for a very long time and dissapointing all of us since 6-7 years ago.
Discussion in 2023 titled 'Price Jacking during eBay Promotions'
In last weekâs article, news.com.au referred to a Life Hacker report which revealed Allphonesâs eBay store was recently caught selling the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 for a massive 20 per cent off.
But the pre-sale price was listed at $1619.99 â a huge $120.99 mark-up on the recommended retail price.
At the time, an eBay spokeswoman confirmed the seller had been removed from eBayâs 20 per cent off tech promotion, as they were âin breach of our retail promotion terms and conditionsâ.
âWe have measures in place to ensure sellers arenât artificially inflating their pricing â specifically to benefit from the sale discount,â she said.
They say they have measures in place, but I wonder if they actually enforce such measures.
eagle eyed shoppers might actually have noticed that eBay removed the ability for you to see the sales history of an item by clicking on the number of items sold — you used to be able to see how much the item was previously selling for.
Very true. I've noticed noticed some "changes" in the way we're able to view previous sale details ….. or lack of. I guess if buyers lack the ability to be informed then they're less likely to inform others of shifty behavior.
What a pity ebay still allows ,or looks away from, fraudulent listings. (item locations, for one. Clearly BS claims by sellers for another)
So I'm not buying their effort.The spotlight on this stuff might make them act occasionally, but the rest of the time it's a free for all . If they allowed a search tool to block all sub 98% ratings, the ebay website would suddenly sponsor tumble weeds. The ACCC should be cleaning them up. The govt was happy to allow Gerry's GST add on. Why not a minimum trading standard compliance like all other retailers?
"We have measures in place" Sure-sure
Sales is code for 'come in spinner', as often as not.
None of these business are ever selling at a loss on their lowest price.
Buy it when you need it. Don't review prices after you do.
The whole COL circus has enabled automatic price jacking. And even when fuel prices are 20% cheaper than this time last year, freight costs linked to all purchases has popped up at the 'automatic' rate at the retailer.
Funny that.
"COL circus", what is that?
Cost Of Living. You know, the excuse every single business is using to milk us dry. (ergo jack prices automatically without ANY reason other than "because we can"?
Got ya, COL (CoL?) Cost of Living. I've never seen anyone use that acronym before.
The only time this worked in my favour was when I was claiming the item on tax. The invoice from the seller is for the marked up price which helps at tax time.
Also, if you plan to claim back the expense at work, even better!!
For the Green Gadgets, I bought quiet a lot for them, on eBay especially as the only market with 15%+ discount. I haven't noticed this yet.
Are you sure you didnt confuse with the different price of item condition level?
Absolutely not. I even check their website listings. However, they are good at customer service and you can easily return the item without any cost.
Check the eBay listing past price? https://www.ebay.com.au/bin/purchaseHistory?item=
enter in listing number after =
I got an S22 Ultra 256gb (as new) from mobile_world_au for $620 using a Black Friday code. I haven't seen the 256gb go for that price anywhere else and I've been looking for a couple of months now
I bought my S22 Ultra 512GB in excellent condition from Green Gadget back in August. The item condition is as always almost as new, no noticeable scratches.
I bought it at $759 with only $15 discount ~ $744. I noticed it wasn't available often, thus the soonest Green Gadget had it, I bought it without waiting for the bigger discount.
Donât worry, Colesworth have been doing this for years.
Memeber since 2020, Ebay has been pulling this stuff from the start !!
I'm not saying it's OK of them to do that but
for some items the sellers aren't making a huge margin, so we shouldn't be shocked that they raise the price to allow for these "sales".
eBay sellers actually have option to do or not to do the promotion - if they can't make profit, it's better they do not join.
Is there nothing we can do to report this behaviour? These greedy deceptive people repeatedly get away with it without any repurcussions.
Since the beginning of time this tactic has been used.
You have to know your prices compare with their competitors. Black Friday sales are nothing special never have been. I guarantee next week most deals you will be able to find elsewhere.
You only figured this out now?
Amazon and major physical retailers have been pulling this stunt for years.