https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-BRAND-NEW-UNDRILLED-BRUNSWICK-CROWN-JEWEL-BOWLING-BALL-CIRCA-1963-GREY-/142541408011?hash=item213021470b:g:Dw8AAOSwN7dZ5Nnw




You gotta be kidding me. 

LOL, and he wants the extra $30 for shipping.
Wouldn't want to squeeze the profit margins!

it's missing one word   GOLDEN

He can f******ck off with that price lol.

Don't really blame him for setting the market high to start.  If he doesn't start dropping the price fairly rapidly though he is going to be listing it for months imo.  I sometimes have more money than brains and even I pause before paying triple digits for any ball second hand NIB or not (which is why my older stuff is almost all 2 or 3rd drilled).

The charcoal Crown Jewel was one of the strongest balls in its day, but it's still just a plastic ball.  Probably worth about $50 shipped, possibly more to a collector.  --  JohnP

It was black -- the charcoal substance is from aging. The reason the black Crown Jewel was so sought after, and so strong, was because it was about 55 hardness on a durometer.  No other color Crown Jewel was that soft -- apparently it was a manufacturing error. I still have one, which is a great spare ball.  I can get it to hook and hit on bone dry lanes, but it's nothing special now.

Idiots gonna idiot. 

That being said, it is NOT uncommon for people to jack up the shipping fees since ebay does not get a cut of that.  They only get a cut of the actual sales price...

eBay hits you with a 10% surcharge on shipping these days. I had a flat rate of $30 for shipping.


Attached is a snippet of my bill this month.

Quote from: bowling_rebel on October 18, 2017, 04:39:18 PM

This can apply to almost anything, but mostly see it with music instruments on ebay.

Take old junk.

Put the word "vintage" in front of it.

Try to sell it for like 10X more than it's worth.

That tactic is more effective today than ever due to millennials finally being able to get real jobs now.

Quote from: michelle on October 18, 2017, 05:50:00 PM

Idiots gonna idiot. 

That being said, it is NOT uncommon for people to jack up the shipping fees since ebay does not get a cut of that.  They only get a cut of the actual sales price...

eBay hits you with a 10% surcharge on shipping these days. I had a flat rate of $30 for shipping.


Attached is a snippet of my bill this month.

Yep.  They started that a long time ago because people would sell their stuff for dollars and then charge a ton of money for shipping and Ebay wasn't making any money on that.  Now they hit you with the 10% on the auction sale and the shipping cost.  If you are charging the actual shipping price, I don't think they should take a cut of that... but they do.