Re: C65 on Ebay

On 11/13/2017 09:41 AM, smf wrote:
> On 13/11/2017 07:24, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
> 
>>
>> Yes, and if it were a real auction, it might work. But the way ebay 
>> works it only drives the prices up without any real benefit.
>>
> I understand that sniping in the last seconds means you can get yourself 
> a bargain, but it only works if the interest was so low that nobody was 
> desperate enough to drive the price up to scare you off in the first place.
> 
> I don't trust my details with a sniping service and I have fallen asleep 
> a couple of minutes before an auction has ended and also set an alarm to 
> wake me up, only for the price to be higher than I had previously been 
> prepared to pay (but not as high as I ultimately would have paid).
> 
> If everyone switched to sniping then people will eventually get sick of 
> missing out on items where the price ended up relatively low and decide 
> to just snipe with random high numbers, then decide afterwards whether 
> they were prepared to pay it.
> 
>> My way has worked quite well so far.
>>
> I laugh when people tell me that I've overpaid for something and they 
> say they managed to get it much cheaper on ebay. Then it turns out that 
> they waited six months for an item that showed up with a bad 
> description, in the wrong category, with a low starting price and then 
> sniped it at the end. They then can't understand why everyone doesn't do 
> that when they want to buy anything.

When looking for stuff, I also try the most common spelling errors like 
'Comodore' or 'Commmodore'. Now and then you get lucky. Otherwise, if 
you got it for less than what you were prepared to pay, you didn't 
overpay, after all it is worth that much to you.


> 
>> It would be totally different if an auction on Ebay would be extended 
>> by 5 minutes after each bid.
> 
> I assume you wouldn't use ebay at all then, because "it only drives the 
> prices up without any real benefit."

It depends. I wound certainly adjust my strategy. Lately I have used 
Ebay mostly to get parts that are otherwise hard to find and those can 
be bought right away.

  Gerrit


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