Originally Posted By Jafar30 I've ordered from Amazon before, but mostly things at or around full price. My question is on the used items for .01. Is that all you really pay? I imagine I'd still pay the shipping costs.
Originally Posted By jnemo I have purchased items that were used from Amazon. Never anything at that price. The two things that come to mind are first check the score of the seller and see if anyone has had any problems with the seller. Twice I have had problems with sellers on Amazon. Once they did not ship for two months and just recently I ordered two pair of swim shoes and they only sent one pair. They did refund the money but it took serveral days for them to answer my email and that was only after I sent an email to Amazon. The second is the shipping, you do have to pay that.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Usually anyone on Amazon or ebay that shows .01 as a starting price -- covers themselves with very high shipping costs...just a personal thing but I avoid those sellers
Originally Posted By Jafar30 That's what my fear was. I think I may be better off buying something at full price or at a discounted price through Amazon.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 Indeed - if you buy used and I occasionally do there for my college daughters text books -- pay the extra few dollars ( for me on text books still way cheepere) and go with someone with good feedback and more significant transactions --on books always watch how they are shipping -- try to get them to use US priority mail - or pick someone who does-- those who use 'media mail -- it can be weeks and weeks before you see your purchase
Originally Posted By Labuda I only buy stuff used through Amazon if I REALLY am willing to kiss that money goodbye with no return on investment for weeks or months - I have no patience for media mail, and even those folks who say they ship within 1-2 days usually NEVER do for me, so I never get anything in less than a week or week-and-a-half. Forget that! I'll just use my Amazon Prime and that new A9 thing.
