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Originally Posted by Rukia Kuchiki
...on amazon I found some cloth covered disposable diapers made by tena. they were a case of 60 for 36.00$ And I found the same kind on ebay for 40.00 - 45.00$
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It is great that you're able to find a brand name adult disposable diaper for approximately the same price per diaper as a brand name baby disposable diaper! Huggies cost around $0.50 per diaper packaged in the megapacks in my area. AFAIK, adult disposable diapers are twice as much or more in price per diaper than the baby ones (Not surprising since it is more "area" to cover!
). It is no surprise that you may find a cheaper price for a product outside of eBay. You won't always find the cheapest price for a product on eBay in the "Buy It Now" format compared to outside of eBay. Whenever I shop for anything online, I usually first check out Froogle (a.k.a. Google shopping ->
https://www.google.com/shopping) to get a general idea of the current asking prices for a product. Next, I search on eBay for the same or similiar quality product (In both "Buy It Now" and auction formats) sorting by "Price + shipping lowest first" and then compare all the prices (As well as the quality of the products offered). As far as the prices of the products sold outside of eBay versus their counterparts being sold on eBay in the "Buy It Now" format - Whichever seller has the lowest price (While still offering a quality product) gets my business. I also use the lowest price found to determine the range to spend ($0.01 up to the lowest price found) for the product when bidding on an auction or making an offer (For a product in the "Make Best Offer" format). I have experienced that in most times this strategy works but sometimes all the research is "flushed down the toilet" whenever skittish buyers enter an auction and drive the price up to insane levels (Just like what happened with the Curity baby diapers auction).
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Originally Posted by Bandit Keith
...you can find more cloth diapers if you search ''Adult diaper'' instead of ''adult cloth diaper'' as I've found atleast one extra page of cloth diapers in that search method albeit most of them are the AIO type for the most of the extra page(s) still you can find extra none aio types, Yes you end up sifting through disposable diaper pages but when it has more adult cloth diapers to find I figured you'd want to search that way aswell. ...
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Thanks for your advice. I am aware that a broad search term will yield more results than a narrowed down one. My search up above using "cloth diapers" would not have yielded the Curity [baby] cloth diapers if I specified "adult". The main reason that I do use a more narrowed down search is because I don't want to sift through multiple page listings for "disposable diapers with a cloth like cover" (Though I'm sure that Rukia would rather prefer to do so.
). After performing a narrowed down search, if the lowest price listing that I've found is within reason then I'd consider it the most likely candidate [Target acquired
] but I would also broaden the search and double check the latest lowest priced results to make sure that the listing that I was most satified with is indeed the best choice. Sometimes I do find a better deal than what I thought was the best choice but most times, I find that the choice that I gravitated towards turns out to be the best choice afterall. By using the method I described, I tend to save some time and target the best candidate more quickly by not having to sift through the extra results that are priced more than the choice that I targeted. Once I've focused on a target listing, the only extra results that I would even consider examining would have to be the lower priced one(s) with the same, comparable or even better quality of product.