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It's for 8 valves Shaun so actually a proper bargain.

Did you notice further down the listing they are not only WRAS Approved (no evidence tho) but they also come with free forehead tatoos stating 'Royal D1ckhead'... 🙄 FFS

Personally, I'd keep a copy of that ad to show the tightwads...
 
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ShaunCorbs said:
am i missing something
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It's either someone typing the wrong prices in at the vendor or an auto-pricing algorithm that has lost the plot. Same vendor has a single butterfly valve on offer at £93 so I suspect the latter.

Most extreme example I've seen was a book available new for about £10 on sale second-hand for ca £15k.
 
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As Shaun, it'll be because they have no stock and it's easier to increase the price than remove the listing and upload again.
The previously sold ones will have been at the lower price.

If someone's daft enough to buy at the high price the seller will just buy from someone else and send it on.
You'll find things that would cost a few pounds listed at Thousands sometimes as example above.
 
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snowhead said:
As Shaun, it'll be because they have no stock and it's easier to increase the price than remove the listing and upload again.
The previously sold ones will have been at the lower price.

If someone's daft enough to buy at the high price the seller will just buy from someone else and send it on.
You'll find things that would cost a few pounds listed at Thousands sometimes as example above.
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emailed them so will find out and update you all
 
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ShaunCorbs said:
am i missing something

£154.99 for 8 butterfly lever valves

JOBLOT BUTTERFLY LEVER HANDLE BALL VALVES COMPRESSION FULL BORE -SEE DESCRIPTION | eBay
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Hello Shaun,

"Happy New Year" to You and all of our Members.

I have seen many examples of this ridiculous Ebay and Amazon listings pricing recently.

One of the most ridiculous was for a 5 Litre container of Antibacterial Hand Washing liquid soap which was listed at £119.00.

I had been buying 500Ml dispensers at 65p each from Tesco until they stopped stocking them - 10 x 65p = £6.50 !

I am guessing that most of Us only look through Ebay and Amazon if searching for a particular item but having seen the above pricing and quite a few others while searching Ebay recently I decided to look further into this ridiculous pricing situation.

I found it on MANY Listings - often over £100.00 more than what I would expect the items to be worth !

I agree with Member snowhead`s comments about the reasons for this `overpricing`.

Another outrageous price was for 5 sheets [150cms x 75cms] of Christmas wrapping paper - £71.99 - PLUS P&P !

I have previously bought 5 sheets of the same size Christmas wrapping paper at the expected price of between £4.00 - £5.00.

I will now have a look through some Heating & Plumbing items listings on Ebay to see how frequently this ridiculous pricing occurs.

Chris
 
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