http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-Friends-3939-Mias-Bedroom-Set-NEW-IN-BOX-Free-Shipping-/120998505049?pt=Building_Toys_US&hash=item1c2c12aa59

Let me ask a different way then...and only once. I double posted in my shock. Did 77 people really pay $100 for this $9 set?

If you click on the "sold" listings, they all sold for $14 or $15. I can't tell you what shipping was...

If you click on the "sold" listings, they all sold for $14 or $15. I can't tell you what shipping was...

I noticed the same thing.

Does anybody know why it says $100 now? I wonder if that would skew the eBay market data. It fooled me when I was checking what the set has been trading at.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-Friends-3939-Mias-Bedroom-Set-NEW-IN-BOX-Free-Shipping-/120998505049?pt=Building_Toys_US&hash=item1c2c12aa59

Let me ask a different way then...and only once. I double posted in my shock. Did 77 people really pay $100 for this $9 set?

I have seen this before - When stock gets low, the seller will increase the price (to stop any further sales), and then when they get more stock, they will lower the price again. In this case the listing either expired or the seller realized that they wouldn't be getting any more to sell.

Does anybody know why it says $100 now? I wonder if that would skew the eBay market data. It fooled me when I was checking what the set has been trading at.

The $100 is just the current asking price (not what the buyers paid) - so no, it wouldn't skew the data.

I have seen this before - When stock gets low, the seller will increase the price (to stop any further sales), and then when they get more stock, they will lower the price again. In this case the listing either expired or the seller realized that they wouldn't be getting any more to sell.

 

I was going to say this and you took the words right out of my mouth.

 

They do it too so they can keep the listing up if they run out of stock early - they listed more than they had.

I have seen this before - When stock gets low, the seller will increase the price (to stop any further sales), and then when they get more stock, they will lower the price again. In this case the listing either expired or the seller realized that they wouldn't be getting any more to sell.

Yup. I saw someone list a Darth Vader alarm clock for $3,200 since they were OOS and waiting for more. Larger stores like to do this so that they don't have to take down a listing and then put it back up with the listing fee, and I don't really blame them, though it is annoying to see listings like this.

Most sellers state that they do this in the product description, some don't though.