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Old 11-29-2010, 02:37 PM  
Jakez
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Originally Posted by Roald View Post
Friend of mine works for one of the biggest dutch travel/free time bidding sites and like you say, they profit pretty well on most of those deals.

My mom is a frequent visitor of the site and she always thinks she got a steal while in reality its not even that big of a deal. Ofcourse you actually do get a slightly better deal then the normal price but overall its just about giving people the idea they get a great deal imo
Yeah thats how im guessing the majority of the auctions end but my cousin has gotten things for like $5 that retail for $500-$700. I guess its just luck and knowing when to stop bidding? If I understand correctly the items are bought by the people running the site and they make money off from people bidding because each bid costs like $0.75. So they can afford the let things go for so cheap because the profits from people bidding adds up.

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