Hey guys. Today I was looking at some lures on Ebay when I found some really popular and cheap (99 cents) lures that shipped from china with FREE SHIPPING. The seller had lots of positive feedback, but I'm still unsure of if it's legit or not. Do any of you guys have experience on buying lures from Ebay?

 

Thanks,

PennBass

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

I been buying some of these. Most of what we purchase is marked made in Japan. They offer some nice looking hard swimbaits. Sometimes cheap works.

When you buy from China, you get what you get. The quality is often uneven and though they are good at copying the external shape of a lure, they often fall down when it comes to the critical internals. I've seen decent crankbaits ffom there and I've seen others that were completely worthless. Try to find some that are molded in Japan - they are a better bet. But don't expect a knockoff of any popular crankbait to be just like the original. They almost never are.

I buy tons of baits on the bay but I only buy known brands.   With those super cheap lures, you generally get what you pay for, IMO.

I would steer clear of those personally. 

Junk

Just bought 30+ Jawbone crank baits at Dicks because they were on sale for $3.00 a piece and even with a lure retriever I am always losing cranks because I throw them into the gnarliest stuff I can find. Color, shape, eyes, rattle all looked good. Got em home and the hooks are tiny and need to be swapped out. Should have saved myself the time and aggravation and got a decent crank

Cheap topwaters are ok but anything that dives im pretty sure they aint tank tested.topwaters are way easier just throw 10,000 in and what floats is what gets packed

We've heard so many times through the years of people finding "great fishing deals" on eBay and CraigsList, only to discover it's a scam or they're sent worthless junk.

 

Buyer beware.

I got the big package of inline spinners for trout, they are decent. Now, I dont think I would trust a jerkbait or something like that if it was suuuper cheap.

Inline spinners for trout in rivers with rocks were we tend to lose many buying cheaper is good.

We thought the made in Japan was junk once look at the fishing industry there now. I have a lot of different stuff from China. Some of there casting reels and spinning reels work great. I think in a few more years all the made in China stuff will be good

Look at my 99 cent casting reel. It a clone of a higher reel.

Inline spinners for trout in rivers with rocks were we tend to lose many buying cheaper is good.

We thought the made in Japan was junk once look at the fishing industry there now. I have a lot of different stuff from China. Some of there casting reels and spinning reels work great. I think in a few more years all the made in China stuff will be good

Look at my 99 cent casting reel. It a clone of a higher reel.

99 cent? is that a brand or it costs 99 cents? lol

It's about $25/$29 now. If u want me to list the exact number, model let me know

Inline spinners for trout in rivers with rocks were we tend to lose many buying cheaper is good.

We thought the made in Japan was junk once look at the fishing industry there now. I have a lot of different stuff from China. Some of there casting reels and spinning reels work great. I think in a few more years all the made in China stuff will be good

Look at my 99 cent casting reel. It a clone of a higher reel.

I remember you posting about that a year or two ago, you never did post pictures...

It's about $25/$29 now.

where did you get it? can we have a link to check it out?

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Ebay Ad #141139172865

On the reel side plate model #DM-120LA. $29

Chinese casting reel.

I have some $9/$16 Chinese spinning reels. Want those numbers too. I bought them for my 5yo grandson but they work great.

Ebay add# 261904992315. Spinnerbaits reel price varies with size. They work I bought two. For the kids

Inline spinners for trout in rivers with rocks were we tend to lose many buying cheaper is good.

We thought the made in Japan was junk once look at the fishing industry there now. I have a lot of different stuff from China. Some of there casting reels and spinning reels work great. I think in a few more years all the made in China stuff will be good

Look at my 99 cent casting reel. It a clone of a higher reel.

They were 99 cents plus $39 shipping..I remember looking at them. Sellers used to avoid fees by having super low prices and jacking up the shipping fees, which ebay did not take a chunk of..now they do and thats why the price went from 99 cents to $30..the actual cost of item plus shipping is the same just the distribution has changed.

Now there $29 & free shipping.

I feel this manufacturer in China was a vendor who made this reel for someone in japan(example) when the order was done they still had the tooling so they manufactured the reel for themselves. It's a decent reel.

And getting back to the original post..bought a bunch of the cheap lures..they all broke, rather quickly..bills snap, some just broke in half..none swam decent..

Now there $29 & free shipping.

Ebay now offers sellers incentives for giving free shipping..

Coming from a engineering r&d lab background I like testing new products. I'm retired its in my DNA. These reels work.

If a cheap reel gets a kid away from the computer and out fishing for a cheap $10/$15 reel that's my point.

Coming from a engineering r&d lab background I like testing new products. I'm retired its in my DNA. These reels work.

I dont question that..just explaining the pricing structure. I'm too in love with my Shimanos anyway..

With these cheaper lures be aware of the metric sizes and lengths don't get duped. The actual size of the lure can be smaller than we expect.

With reels I like trying something different just to see if it works.

I've gotten some really cheap plastic lures.  I don't remember where they were made (don't know if I ever knew) and they did not work at all.  Couldn't tune them to make them run straight.  Just junk.  I took the hooks off and threw the hooks away and used the lures for key chain fobs.