Occasionally you will see ridiculously priced items on E-bay
I recently responded to a seller asking if the decimal point was in the wrong place because I too was amazed at the price of the item I was interested in.
There is a good reason for it.
Here's what the seller responded back>>>>
"They're not actually $534.93...it's just a trick eBay sellers use. May sound strange, but here is why we temporarily raised the price:"
"EBay sellers have selling histories on each item they have - this particular item records all of our sales on this item from the past year or so. Many eBay sellers will temporarily raise their prices (by a large amount), in hopes that buyers will not buy their item during that time, usually because they are out of stock. This way, no one buys their item (hopefully!) and they do not have to cancel their ad. If a seller cancels or ends their ad, they lose their entire sales history. Sales histories of items are pretty important to many sellers, so you can see why they would rather raise their prices than to cancel their ad."
(Thanks to Ibuy.isell for the info)
TiM
