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To: zzeeman

Starting to think these online auction houses, where you have to pay an annual subscription fee just to bid, are a scam. 100%...

Was biding on a wrecked Harley and it turns out there are different levels of bidding access you can “buy” for additional fees and that the professional scrappers and resellers are heavily weighted against public bidding.

All I really wanted was the motor/trans, wiring, brakes, and some other miscellaneous bits... But the bidding quickly exceeded my accounts limits to a point where I’m calling “shenanigans”... “Working bike” bid price for something that cannot be fixed.

*sigh*

At least this worked out well...

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8,680 posted on 07/30/2026 9:09:58 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Dead Corpse
Starting to think these online auction houses, where you have to pay an annual subscription fee just to bid, are a scam. 100%...

You had me with paying to be able to pay. I've no interest in that. I won't join Amazon Prime or Costco or Sams Club because I don't want to pay for the privilege of spending my money. And it gripes my cookies every time I buy a new phone on my Verizon plan because they want a $40 upgrade fee. I can usually talk them out of it if I have the patience but why are they charging me money to NOT switch to another carrier????? Mrs. ArGee is afraid the other carriers are all worse or I'd have waved Verizon bye-bye-bye a long time ago just for that.

8,681 posted on 07/30/2026 11:37:07 AM PDT by ArGee (If ignorance is bliss, Congress is one happy place!)
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To: Dead Corpse

I never used them but I’ve seen some auction sites like that for woodworking and other industrial equipment... seemed like a real bother and expensive just to try to bid for a once in blue moon item...


8,687 posted on 07/30/2026 2:51:00 PM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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