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jabut5450
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I’ve noticed that there are certain stores or items that sell things that are listed at an incredibly high prices. At least the price seems incredibly high to me. I have noticed things like Tylenol being listed at $90 when you can buy the same bottle at a brick and mortar store or on Amazon for 25 or 30 bucks.

I’ve also noticed it with basic health supplements. They can be two or three or more times higher than you can get them for somewhere else. sometimes it’ll say in the description that there’s been a few sold. Does that mean they sold at the listed price? Other times it won’t say that anything sold so I’m curious if people actually buy things at these inflated prices or if people are listing them at that price and then if they don’t sell, then they drop the price significantly. Or is it just that I’m missing something and people do spend that much on Tylenol for example.

If they were speciality or imported items I’d understand it more I think. But most of the time it’s not like that.

Maybe it is like this with other categories or items too. I usually only search for health related items.
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byto253
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Not just health, every category has some crazy high list prices.   Sometimes offers are enabled and they take offers at the usual selling price.  Others are just fishing for suckers, or are out of stock and jack up the price to keep a listing alive until they get more stock.

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marnotom!
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@jabut5450 wrote:

I have noticed things like Tylenol being listed at $90 when you can buy the same bottle at a brick and mortar store or on Amazon for 25 or 30 bucks.

I’ve also noticed it with basic health supplements. They can be two or three or more times higher than you can get them for somewhere else.

What's the likelihood of a typical eBay seller obtaining a bottle of Tylenol or Omega 3 for the same price as a big box or brick and mortar retailer, though?

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As byto says it's in almost every category. I searched Tylenol as that did seem insanely high for sure, one thing I noticed is most are for 390 tab bottles, the one I get regularly (and is still a decent size) is 130 tabs so that they are like 3 of the regular. I also don't know if people are using the Made in Canada as an excuse to sell to other countries (I noticed they all showed Made in Canada, even though some had a clearlyAsian sounding user name).

My peeve is people stock piling items to sell here (and other online sites) for tons more money when they become hard to find.  I've seen this personally many times for random items I've been trying to source out myself from K-cup flavours, to printer ink. If my usual stores are out of stock, lo and behold they're always here jacked way up. When my kids were younger I hated running to the store to get something from their Christmas list that was sold out everywhere, except here, where it was 10x the amount.

There will always be some people willing to pay at least a little more for items they want but can't find, otherwise I can't imagine people are naive enough to buy at such inflated prices.

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you state that "I usually only search for health related items. "...so does that also mean you only purchase said items here on eBay?  ...instead of from your local pharmacy or similar local reliable retail supplier of health products?...I could think of many safety concerns for purchasing such products from eBay...

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or are out of stock and jack up the price to keep a listing alive until they get more stock.

This has always struck me as a really dumb move.

I've seen the excuse that it keeps the number sold previously on display, which doesn't seem like a useful bit of information, and in any case could be kept elsewhere. 

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@reallynicestamps wrote:

or are out of stock and jack up the price to keep a listing alive until they get more stock.

This has always struck me as a really dumb move.

I've seen the excuse that it keeps the number sold previously on display, which doesn't seem like a useful bit of information, and in any case could be kept elsewhere. 


They could have their own Google ad campaigns or something and don't want to break the links. Supposedly items with good sales history also get a bump by eBay.

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easoss
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Who in the heck buys a bottle of Tylenol on eBay?

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