This week's eBay soakers

SSCBen · Post by **SSCBen** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 9:43 pm

Man, I forgot about those foreign eBays! Sometimes you can find some soakers in really great condition there.

Spinner · Post by **Spinner** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:39 pm

Yes, sometimes

Neuro · Post by **Neuro** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:07 pm

I guess I see what he means.
http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search. ... etaEndSort

Spinner · Post by **Spinner** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:49 am

I guess I see what he means.

Me or DoomSoaker? :huh:

Neuro · Post by **Neuro** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:05 am

you. ebay uk looks pretty bare...

Spinner · Post by **Spinner** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 5:25 pm

Yes. Grr. The 'best' thing recently was a CPS 1-3-5 for about £13 inc. p&p. thats about $20-25...

The dark ANNIHILATOR · Post by **The dark ANNIHILATOR** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 5:56 am

Yes. Grr. The 'best' thing recently was a CPS 1-3-5 for about £13 inc. p&p. thats about $20-25...

Actually the shipping cost from USA to UK is cheaper than from UK to USA. Some sellers can even ship it by groundmail(or boat to be more precise), to make it less expensive. Instead of waiting till someone in the UK puts a CPS soaker on ebay(the CPS 1-3-5 is XPBackfire-esque) , just buy a CPS 1000, CPS 1200, CPS 2100 or CPS 1500 in the next months on the US ebay. Those shipping costs are not as much like a MXL for example.

SSCBen · Post by **SSCBen** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:46 am

The shipping for a MXL may be as much as the price. :Hey, that's funny.: Well not really.

Spinner · Post by **Spinner** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 9:27 pm

Hence the quote marks around "best"! :Hey, that's funny.:

About your later comments, yes, I look very frequently on the US ebay for soakers, and was rather glum to see the latest 1000s go. Unfortunately, any emails I send (generally after I see no bidding taking place on an item - I feel then I'm in with a chance) just meet with refusal to ship to the UK.

What do you think is a reasonable p&p charge for a CPS?

The dark ANNIHILATOR · Post by **The dark ANNIHILATOR** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:23 pm

To UK, I would say $15-$20. Anything more than that, and they might overprice it. You should ask for Airmail and ground shipping.

The dark ANNIHILATOR · Post by **The dark ANNIHILATOR** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 8:50 am

The ebay list above has been updated to February 22.

SSCBen · Post by **SSCBen** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:13 pm

How about someone in th US buys it for you spinner, and then they mail it to you. I know I couldn't do that(nearly broke), but I bet someone else could.

Someone should buy that XPBackfire-esquepy 1-3-5 and "repair" it so that it has one nozzle. It might be as good as what it replaced, the CPS 1700.

Spinner · Post by **Spinner** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 6:08 pm

Originally posted by DoomSoaker@Feb 22 2004, 09:13 AM
How about someone in th US buys it for you spinner, and then they mail it to you.

Yeah, that would be good. I've forgotten - were we talking about any particular Soaker?

EDIT: Just noticed an SC600 on offer on eBay UK. Unfortunately it's in Germany, so shipping would be high. And someone else has bidded for it already.
SC 600

EDIT: WOW! Just look at what's available for a search on 'Super Soaker' on eBay Germany!

SSCBen · Post by **SSCBen** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 7:03 pm

Yeah, I always check out the foriegn eBay's. Remember http://www.waterbattles.com/ ? It's a German site, they have reviews of a few of those forieng soakers.

The dark ANNIHILATOR · Post by **The dark ANNIHILATOR** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:20 pm

Yeah, I always check out the foriegn eBay's. Remember http://www.waterbattles.com/ ?

I emailed the german site. They are willing to give stats for the european soakers, if you are interested.