Originally Posted by Nixte

Before the change of Ebay's tangible good ruling you could always sell a document saying you will give the buyer the location of an online shop that will provide him the "item" for such an such price ... similar to all those wholesale lists ... (Nowadays you would have to sell it in the cd format ... but the hassle is not worth my time)

What you did then was to:

List a popular item with the description that you will sell them the "online location" of the product for $. They would buy it for $ and your online delivery script would send them a document with the link to the online shop that sold the item for $ (of course that link was an affiliate link for whatever online shop you were promoting) And you always could include an upsell

i think you could still pull this of by listing on the website and domain catergory since you are allowed to send websites and domains via online.

Depending on what you are selling, this might get you flagged pretty fast ... but there are now several scripts out that automate the sales of CDs. I saw one even in the download section .... so I might get into this again...

Originally Posted by r-webb-k

i think you could still pull this of by listing on the website and domain catergory since you are allowed to send websites and domains via online.

Originally Posted by RandomStuff

The whole paying above retail thing really has to do with people's desire to win. They start bidding on something low, and get attached to it, they WANT to win, and in that desire to win, they throw reason to the wind, and end up paying more than they wanted to, but they WON damnit, and they're proud of that.. LOL! (at least, this is my take on it, I'm sure someone that has taken some psychology classes can chime in and give the name for this/confirm this? hehe)

I second this, human tendency for this, well there is always a first time self pawned buyer

this works have been doing this for a long time