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Author Topic: Mk3 VDSL Faceplates going for silly prices on FleaBay  (Read 2159 times)

snadge

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Mk3 VDSL Faceplates going for silly prices on FleaBay
« on: January 14, 2019, 03:16:20 PM »

I wonder if this is anything to do with the bad reports of the Mk4 VDSL Faceplate?

£107..!!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/182872927322?chn=ps

£110..!!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182872926119

.....and the Mk4's are almost given away at circa £5......

£5..
https://bit.ly/2QNalO1

£7...
https://bit.ly/2RqZwGB
« Last Edit: January 14, 2019, 03:22:09 PM by snadge »
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Re: Mk3 VDSL Faceplates going for silly prices on FleaBay
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2019, 03:33:21 PM »

Both are the same seller,  may have temporarily put prices up whilst on holiday rather than cancel the auction.
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Re: Mk3 VDSL Faceplates going for silly prices on FleaBay
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2019, 05:26:47 PM »

It's pretty common.
It can be easier and cheaper to temporarily increase the price high enough where the item won't sell than it is to remove and relist the item.

£10.83 appears to be the last price they sold 1 at.
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Re: Mk3 VDSL Faceplates going for silly prices on FleaBay
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2019, 07:33:26 PM »

I have one NTE5c and I got rid of the Mk 4 faceplate that the engineer gave me and put a BT-telephone-socket-only front on instead. I can do this because I have no phone, only dsl. I used a very short BT-plug-to-rj11-plug cable into my modem - like a much much shorter old dial-up modem cable.

All my other NTEs are NTE5a’s and have either BT-phone-socket (BS6312 431A) fronts or AA (aa.net.uk) DSL-only straight-through faceplates on their fronts. I have some RJ11-RJ45 cables and RJ11-RJ11 cables for them, the former being a (slightly) better fit.
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