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Selling PS3 on ebay?
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So, I've got the chance to pick up a PS3 with a 30% discount (through work). Do you reckon it'd be worthwhile buying it and whacking it on ebay to see if I'd make a profit on it?
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ETA: Dont forget to take into account the sellers and paypal fees
it'd be a risk, but with your discount off you should at least make RRP.
You'll probably make a profit but the moaning git inside me says that if you don't really want to keep the console, why not let someone who'll actually wants it buy the thing?
The shifted release date and the high initial price of the unit will probably mean that supply is pretty high compared to demand.
But you could get lucky and find a gullible smuch willing to dish out mega bucks.
Given the xbox 360 is so imbedded now in Europe and everyone knows the inital ps3 release games are shite (yes Resistance, you scrawny boring shooter, I'm looking at you) it might be worth thinking about this seriously. You'd need to make sure you get the console before the offical release to make any serious money, and that it's one of the pre-release UK models.
I reckon you'd probably come close to the RRP if it was a european model and you had it in the next week or two. Any longer than that or not a UK model, well you might be surprised and disappointed by what you make - like others I'm not convinced this is automatically going to sell out, or that any real demand exsists.
Oh and I think ebay has instituted a policy for ps3 on ebay.co.uk - you will have to have a console in your hand to photograph or the listing will be pulled.
Don't expect the kind of crazy Wii or Xbox 360 price rush.