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Middle-Earth => Esgaroth Marketplace => Topic started by: Hobbit_Pizza on October 22, 2009, 09:57:43 PM

Title: OMG eBay flood
Post by: Hobbit_Pizza on October 22, 2009, 09:57:43 PM

Did anyone see the 3000+ foil cards listed as singles today on eBay? I've never seen such rediculous pricing. There's 63 pages! It worse than Spam!  :down:

Title: Re: OMG eBay flood
Post by: MR. Lurtzy on October 22, 2009, 11:50:08 PM

Yeah, it looks normal to me as well.

Title: Re: OMG eBay flood
Post by: Hobbit_Pizza on October 23, 2009, 07:05:39 AM

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1%257C72%253A2558&_nkw=lotr+foil&_sop=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

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Title: Re: OMG eBay flood
Post by: rubbercarp on October 23, 2009, 07:39:46 AM

Page 1 of 2 for me ...

?

Title: Re: OMG eBay flood
Post by: scowiii on October 23, 2009, 11:20:05 AM

Still don't see 3000 foils listed separately.

Title: Re: OMG eBay flood
Post by: Hobbit_Pizza on October 23, 2009, 12:33:04 PM

Wow they are all gone...thats so strange. Seriously, they were all there. Hopes up? I don't htink so...FOTR common foils were all $1 or more, and FOTR foils were $30 and $50...someone was screwing around. I'm glad they're gone either way.

Title: Re: OMG eBay flood
Post by: Hobbit_Pizza on October 24, 2009, 12:36:36 PM

Okay it's back again. This time I've got screenshots to prove it:

(https://lotrtcgwiki.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi66.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fh263%2Fclaudiazi%2Febayflood.jpg&hash=96880f754cb12b522719d2b462a23377ea86d4a3)


(https://lotrtcgwiki.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi66.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fh263%2Fclaudiazi%2Febayflood2.jpg&hash=d5159b02dacd08b85dfd9db65ace52f0e7ecb19f)

Title: Re: OMG eBay flood
Post by: rubbercarp on October 24, 2009, 01:05:27 PM

Still not seeing those kinds of results.

Not sure why you're getting those query results.

Title: Re: OMG eBay flood
Post by: MR. Lurtzy on October 24, 2009, 01:24:30 PM

87 results for me. :-k

Title: Re: OMG eBay flood
Post by: Ulmo on October 26, 2009, 07:13:17 PM

I got 2779 results.

Title: Re: OMG eBay flood
Post by: OneFathom on October 27, 2009, 07:13:51 AM

You get that many pages because the majority of those cards are "Buy It Now" items.  If you look for LOTR foils with the "Buy It Now" option, you'll get most of the same cards.  I'm on ebay every day looking at them and not much changes except for a few auctions that end and any new items listed overnight.

Title: Re: OMG eBay flood
Post by: Hobbit_Pizza on October 27, 2009, 08:52:37 AM

After investigating this bizarre scenario, I've discovered the cause. Search results vary from one IP address to another. I performed the same search from two different locations and had a variance of almost 3000 results. After googling the topic I found that eBay has so many multiple databases that depending on your IP (or your ISP) you may yield totally different results.