Ebay Vs. Ag Online

I am beginning to think that Ebay is a waste of my time lately. The prices there are "through the roof". Where is the savings? You can find a deal, but more not than often. I also detest and have very little patience for drawn out auctions.

I have started buying straight from AG the majority of the time. I am just so happy that I got the majority of the retired items I wanted before Ebay went "nuts". AG online prices are far better than Ebay these days and their SH prices cannot be beat. I also have to pay CA. sales tax, but I still think I come ahead.

Will Ebay ever return to being "The Garage Sale" of the Internet???

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Agreed!!! everything too expensive!!! I went to look for Bitty Twin girls and they are more expensive than getting BOTH twins from AG! They range over $50 each! while both the girl and boy at AG are $79!

I haven't bought anything off ebay in so long! I've gotten a few current AG items for a little less than retail, but I normally look for retired stuff for Kirsten or Felicity. Although Lissie's stuff always goes sky high in price! Otherwise, I just order direct from AG. Ebay has been a madhouse lately! [img]confused.gif[/img]

Ebay's definitely gone nuts. I frequently look for things I want, but...agh. Expensive! My one problem with ordering from AG online is that I usually want to get pm items...especially when it comes to the dolls. I know that's picky, but...Yeah. I can't help it.

-Janine

All I want from ebay is a cheap fixer upper pm doll... [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img] I just want a doll who can travel... I suppose I could get a cheap doll from walmart or something and have travel...but...I dunno.

I agree. You can't just get an item for a low price. Now it has to be twice what it used to be!!

I saw a kirsten with cut hair and a lense falling out and silver eye going for 48 or so! WHOA!

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Originally posted by J9S:
Ebay's definitely gone nuts. I frequently look for things I want, but...agh. Expensive! My one problem with ordering from AG online is that I usually want to get pm items...especially when it comes to the dolls. I know that's picky, but...Yeah. I can't help it.

-Janine

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I agree with you Janine. I want A LOT of PM stuff and with E-Bay being so nuts lately I have to lay off for a while if I want to actually save money on purchases.

I'm upset that prices are high AND there's nothing good this month. I can't find anything I like ... except one retired dress that's BIN for $45. Sorry, no. I just want to shake some sellers.

Some prices are just ignorant, too. There's no reason in this WORLD to pay over a hundred dollars for an Elizabeth before shipping! Seriously, I can get a brand new doll off the website for some of these prices!

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ February 27, 2006 12:01 AM: Message edited by: Bean Bunny ]</font>

A lot of Ebay prices sicken me. Especially some BINs for stuff I can get straight from the official site. Somebody is selling's Addy's lunch for 33 bucks, her hari ribbons for 13 (I don't even want to buy them from AG because I can just cut some ribbons for less than a dollar at Joanns) and her work shoes for 24! That's a 3 times mark up on her work shoes! One reason I'm glad I know how to sew is looking at the costs of so many things. People are so greedy!

I personally am very perplexed by the prices on ebay. I understand when an item is retired or hard to find - but when I see the same thing on ebay going for twice the price as it is new from AG I find it infuriating.

Every so often you do see someone who does get a good deal which keeps me going to ebay to check but it never seems to happen to me.

I hav found however, that if you have a price in mind and you are willing to wait, the item you are looking for for the price you want does eventually come it. Often we only want things because they are the "flavour of the month" and of course that means the price goes up because of all the bidders involved.

Now that I have a PM doll (I've never seen a Mattel doll in person) I want more PM. For some reason I am attracted to the things that are hard to get - grrrrr.

Juliette