Posted by P Pron on 09/30/06 20:23

higgy wrote:
|| "Dr Zoidberg" wrote:
||
||| Like Amazon , play.com now lets people sell second hand items
||| through the site.
|||
||| Bizarrely , just about every single item from a trader costs more
||| second hand than the identical item new from play themselves.
|||
||| I hope they knock this on the head soon as it clutters up a
||| perfectly good site and makes it harder to find the new item you
||| want.
||| It's never going to be any serious competition for ebay either.
||
|| I hate this practice on Amazon, but so long as it's clearly indicated
|| and Play actually carry most of the products, then it shouldn't be
|| too hard to avoid. Amazon has entire departments crawling with stuff
|| that's only available from their traders (and which trader, is not
|| identified until you click the link), this is a pain when you're
|| trying to get all your stuff under one shipping fee.
||
||
|| higgy.

I use Amazon traders regularly, more on new items than secondhand, but I do
buy s/h when the price is right - I've picked up some excellent bargains,
even taking into account that you have to pay postage on each item - I've
got to the point where I buy more stuff from "Caiman" through Amazon than
from anywhere else...

paul

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