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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: vishwats on February 11, 2004, 09:53:29 am

Title: Did I Pay the right price for this trackball
Post by: vishwats on February 11, 2004, 09:53:29 am: Hi I just won the auction for this trackball..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3273341932

Cost me 25$ + 8 shipping.

Did I pay more or was it a deal ? Please let me know

Thanks

-Vishwa
Title: Re:Did I Pay the right price for this trackball
Post by: Sephroth57 on February 11, 2004, 11:06:12 am: hmm theres no pictures or anything to really see the condition but that looks like an OK deal. you definately didnt get ripped off, as long as the thing doesnt look like crap
Title: Re:Did I Pay the right price for this trackball
Post by: mp2526 on February 11, 2004, 11:36:51 am: Probably not a bad deal, it'll most likely need a good cleaning.
Title: Re:Did I Pay the right price for this trackball
Post by: vishwats on February 11, 2004, 11:41:24 am: I can't believe the image disappeared. The picture did look good when I looked at it last.

I'll post again when I recieve it,

Yes I thought it is a good deal at $25

can I use OptiPac or Oscar USB with this ?

please let me know

Thanks

-vishwa
Title: Re:Did I Pay the right price for this trackball
Post by: Wade on February 11, 2004, 01:05:07 pm: It depends on what it needs. I bought a $20 ebay imperial trackball. But it needed bearings, rollers, a new encoder, and I bought a new ball (for cosmetics). I ended up spending a lot more than I could have bought a new or refurbished one for, straight from Wico.

Wade
Title: Re:Did I Pay the right price for this trackball
Post by: derek1800 on February 11, 2004, 02:48:31 pm: I payed $21 +$10 shipping for betson imperial. The guy said it was only used 25 times and appears to be almost new.
Title: Re:Did I Pay the right price for this trackball
Post by: GroovyTuesdaY on February 13, 2004, 02:12:20 pm: Alot of times the pictures are hosted by some off ebay site and as soon as the auction is over, its get deleted, which kinda sucks sometimes. They are just making room for other pics for newer auctions im sure.

groovY~
Title: Re:Did I Pay the right price for this trackball
Post by: Chris on February 13, 2004, 03:29:48 pm: Quote from: GroovyTuesdaY on February 13, 2004, 02:12:20 pm
Alot of times the pictures are hosted by some off ebay site and as soon as the auction is over, its get deleted, which kinda sucks sometimes. They are just making room for other pics for newer auctions im sure.
This usually happens when people use third-party image hosting.

I bought a brand-new trackball from Happ for $69 on sale (http://www.happcontrols.com/index.html?http://www.happcontrols.com/wp/item_search.html?item-no=56-0100-11HL! (http://www.happcontrols.com/index.html?http://www.happcontrols.com/wp/item_search.html?item-no=56-0100-11HL!)). I spent so much trying to fix up second-hand balls that I finally just decided to get a new one that I wouldn't have to worry about.

--Chris
Title: Re:Did I Pay the right price for this trackball
Post by: vishwats on February 13, 2004, 06:43:59 pm: I got it today,
it looks decent, and rolls little bit rough.
Requires little bit of cleaning I guess,,

Let me see, how it goes..
Title: Re:Did I Pay the right price for this trackball
Post by: mp2526 on February 13, 2004, 07:58:26 pm: I think for about another $20 you can get a set of stainless steel rollers and bearings from the bob roberts. You could probably give yours a cleaning and and see if your rollers are salvagable, or just go ahead and buy new ones and have a pretty good ball for around $50. Not too bad a deal.
Title: Re:Did I Pay the right price for this trackball
Post by: Pyro on February 14, 2004, 03:14:31 pm: I bought another one of these trackballs from this same seller and just received it yesterday. I'm happy with the purchase. It was definitely in need of some cleaning, and I had to glue one inner portion together where the screws connect the halves of the case together, but after a cleaning, it looks great and spins smoothly. I can't wait for my other parts to come in so I can start building my first cp!

Pyro
Title: Re:Did I Pay the right price for this trackball
Post by: Wade on February 17, 2004, 08:53:58 am: You guys realize they are only $50 brand new, right? Sometimes Wico sells refurbished balls for even less, which likely have all new bearings and rollers installed already.

Learn from my mistakes, don't try to go cheap or you'll just end up regretting it and probably spending more money in the long run. I know I have a heck of a lot more than $50 "invested" in my used trackball.

Wade