Reintermediation (Ebay task)

February 6, 2007 lilmiche

 Well the opposite to disintermediation is reintermediation and we were given the wonderful task of purchasing and selling things on ebay. (i was one of the few who actually put the task up on the forum, thank u)

Ok, so, I often use eBay to browse through clothes, as I am a dancer and a raver, it can be great to find certain pieces for a slightly lower price or find things you may never have found in a shop. Also ‘cyber’ gear is really hard to find other than online and many online retailers have now turned to eBay as many of these items are highly sought after.

I have also purchased cds and dvds from eBay, and my dad often uses it for his business to find cheap golf things (yes, he’s managed to create a business around his favourite hobby, i don’t quite know how he managed that either!) and my brother has bought larger things like an amp, a digital camera and a mobile phone (although this then turned out to be a stolen phone so it stopped working after 6months-why someone took 6months to report it stolen i do not know!).

Anyway, on this particular instance i didnt actually find anything i wanted to purchase so I figured I would just draw on previous experience: I find that the bidding is the best bit. When you find out you are the highest bidder you feel all happy inside until some computer program slides in at the last second and bids 50p higher than you (so frustrating when this happens!) What I always tend to do is click the ‘Watch this Item’ button and then when the bid is about to end, it sends you a reminder email, and if the price is higher than I wanted to pay for it, I dont bid. If it is lower, then I bid. I have snatched up a few things this way and I find I dont then get anxious as to whether someone will outbid me.

As for selling on eBay, I have yet to do this, but I have been intending to for quite a while.I think once I return back to my parents house in a few months I will find myself auctioning off some of my childhood junk that there is no space for (as my room at home is currently the attic substitute as every time I return, more junk has been crammed under my bed!). I think selling my junk will come in useful when my student loan runs out in the summer and I want to do all kinds of exciting things and cant afford to!

In reference to online shopping in general, I love it. I get to have a proper nosey at things I might want to buy and I can spend hours on ASOS just looking at pretty things, in the vague hope that my boyfriend is a mind reader (or secretly gay) and will buy me those gorgeous shoes or GHDs. Alas no. he is niether. so I got Nicky Clarke straighteners for Xmas whilst my housemate has PINK GHDs. Oh well. At least hes not a geek…. 

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