From: Galactic Stone & Ironworks <meteoritem...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] AD... Time to get back to work
To: "Mexicodoug" <mexicod...@aim.com>
Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com, nwa...@comcast.net
Date: Sunday, September 27, 2009, 2:37 PM
Hi Jim, Doug and List,
eBay is a fickle mistress.
I have heard one well-known dealer describe eBay as "a hell
for
sellers and a heaven for buyers."
I've been selling collectibles on eBay for about 10 years -
since the
days before PayPal (remember BillPoint?) and the behavior
of other
eBay members has always confused me. I try to make
sense of the whims
of the market and just when I think I have it figured out,
the bidders
(or the sellers) throw me a new curveball.
I concur with Doug's conclusions about watching a cheap BIN
item.
There are many reasons behind this phenomena - some
financial and some
that are quirky at best.
I have a cheap $10 USB Wi-Fi dongle on watch right
now. Why? Well,
it's a little complicated, but here goes - I have a
backburner project
right now that involves building a "Wok-Fi" parabolic
amplifier to
boost my wireless internet reception. I discovered
this need for this
while staying at a rental beach cottage whose promised
"high speed
internet connection" was slower than dialup and more
sporadic than
Robert Downey Jr. The project requires a few
ingredients - a
parabolic dish (or facsimile there-of), a USB Wi-Fi dongle,
and a USB
extension cable. I searched the web to find a
suitable dongle (hold
your jokes) and found this one on eBay. I am not
ready to buy it yet,
because I don't have the other parts rounded up yet.
My wife's
birthday (and our wedding anniversary) are both next week,
so I am in
a cash pinch at the moment. I put the dongle on
watch, so I can go
back and easily find it in a couple of weeks when I am
ready to
assemble the amplifier. Why don't I just BIN because
it's only $10?
Because, as sad as it sounds, $10 makes a difference to me
right now -
money is that tight.
But, I do have to agree that if money is no object, then it
makes
little sense to put a BIN item on a watch list.
Either use the BIN or
move on to something else. But, who is to say what
motivates each
watcher?
Best regards and clear skies,
MikeG
On 9/27/09, Mexicodoug <mexicod...@aim.com>
wrote:
"I have a question that has puzzled me for some
time....... On a cheap
item, $20- buy it now, why would anyone bother to
watch it? "
Hello Jim !
Maybe the IRS.
$20 is more money than 2/3 's of the current eBay
prices in the
collectibles category.
Maybe they debate between (grocery shopping and
cooking a romantic home
cooked steak dinner for two), or (some old rock or
40-kopeck (USD
$0.01) postage stamp).... so they put it on a watch
list so it doesn't
get lost.
Or maybe long on bids and with a fixed perk budget.
Losing other
auctions, he would pounce on the $20 thingy.
Maybe she is 11 years old and $20 is her week's
allowance and she is
waiting for her "paycheck". Or ditto, retired, fixed
income, unemployed.
Do you happen to have several of the same items for
$20? Maybe one of
your competitors thinks $10 has been the standard for
whatever the item
is, and he may be thinking, let's see how quickly Jim
sells these at
$20 !
My money is on the latter,
Kindest wishes,
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Strope <nwa...@comcast.net>
To: Meteorite Central <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 27, 2009 11:51 am
Subject: [meteorite-list] AD... Time to get back to
work
After playing all summer, I find that I must get back
to work. So I
have
started listing on ebay again. All items so far are
buy it now listings
with
some of them accepting reasonable offers. Noteable
items are a complete
Portales Valley Stone, nice Esquel slices, complete
Millbillillie,
Gibeon,
Planetaries etc, Link is below:
http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=catchafallingstar.com
I have a question that has puzzled me for some
time....... On a cheap
item,
$20- buy it now, why would anyone bother to watch it?
It is only $20-
and not
an auction where you would want to know where it ended
or wanted to bid
at the
last minuite? What is the logic behind cluttering your
watched item
list with
this kind of cheap item?
Good luck to all as I have some exceptional items
offered and plan on
adding
more in the next few days.
Jim Strope
http://www.catchafallingstar.com/
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