OppoFood
Senior Member
I would just like to point out that all is not what it seems at this eShop.
I was actually following this. It was up at $200 for couple of hours and then the price was dropped to $9.87 and was "Snapped up" in the space of 2 seconds. They do the same with other "Hard To Get" SACDs too. Only yesterday Depeche Mode Violator SACD was $120 for a couple of hours and then in the last few seconds the price dropped to £10 and was "snapped up" immediately.
There is probably a term for this behaviour like "Shill Bidding" for auctions.
They are probably hoping that somebody like piotrus will advertise the sale on a forum like this. Oh look Love Box for $10.
You will see a lot of Can, Diana Krall, Bob Dylan Eric Clapton,Kinks, and Classical SACDs for $10 also, and these are only worth a tenner anyway so the prices are not altered in these cases.
I watch this seller with interest due to the 'bargains' that appear which I miss.
I posted earlier that I bought but did not receive The Wall for a few pounds. When it did not appear I was not suprised, they gave some rubbish about failing QC blah blah blah. Whereas another SACD arrived, bought at the same time and had passed QC despite having major cracks in the case.
What I can't settle in my mind though is that with the number of listings they have there is bound to be a few unhappy customers. Over 65,000 feedbacks in the last month.The tally of nuetral and negative is around 2000 in that period but the same negatives keeps arrising.
I counted once their listings in a day to see if there was a time when the listings came on line, thinking of business hours etc. They were listing something like 15,000 a day all they way through the day (almost 8 pages 200 per page).
I would love to know who bought Lovebox and lets face it if you saw it avaialble "Buy now" for $10.00 are you going to wait around for a reply to a question? They will refund if the item is wrong.
I also cannot understand how listing Violator for $120 then dropping it to $15 is a Shill Bid, I thought Shill Bidding was false bids to drive the price up. Lets face it Lovebox $10, $25, $50, $100 - all going to be snapped up as a bargain, hell even $200 would be a good buy!
Don't get me wrong here I do not trust them and am not defending them I am just intriuged (some might say obssed lol) by this company and its actions and would like to figure out what they are up to cause it seems weird to me.
They also changed their name around 6 months ago from zoverstocksuk which is very similar to an Amazon seller still trading, could be that the name change was due to a conflict in names, could be the same outfit.