Frankly, auction results can only be a guideline, so what difference does it
make, if a poster listed for $45 actually sold for $30?
In the example of the MISFITS lobby card set, that was listed at $999: Since
this set was sold by one the major players in this hobby, I guess we can safely
assume that it sold with a REASONABLE discount, so what difference does it make
if Dave only got $800 or maybe even $750 for it?
I don't sell on eBay, and since my prices are fairly reasonable to begin with,
I usually do not give huge discounts. On the other hand, I HAVE sold posters
for a fraction of my list price at the shop, if I can get half price for
something I had for 15 years, and sell it, that occasionally made sense for me.
On the other hand, would I want a 50% discount on my asking price recorded on
eBay? I don't think so.
In any case, auction prices can only be a guideline: I looked up one US poster
yesterday at both emovieposter and Heritage: One platform sold it for $33, the
other fetched $300 twice There's one currently listed on eBay for $399, and yet
another one sold with Christie's recently for close to $700, so what's the
ACTUAL value of this poster?
Helmut
www.filmposter.net
Am 13.02.2013 um 22:13 schrieb JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia:
> It goes without saying that the sales records that are published by Bruce and
> Heritage are entirely accurate.
>
> Well, I was very surprised to see that some of the sales records that ebay
> publish are not at all accurate. I recently sold some lobby cards to a
> customer in the US. I accepted his "Best Offer" through ebay on each of the
> cards and sent them off to him.
>
> However, I happened to check the listings and they are saying that each card
> actually sold for the original asking price which was quite a lot more than
> he actually paid. I thought this must have been a glitch but on the
> discussion boards someone said that sellers were complaining that the actual
> selling price was recorded when a Best Offer was made. The argument was
> apparently that buyers would expect similar discounts on all of the sellers
> items.
>
> A seller on the ebay discussion board said that, following the complaints,
> ebay decided to publish that the item sold for the original asking price
> rather than the actual price it sold for.
>
> In the case of the lobby cards I sold, the original asking price was 44.99
> but I actually sold each card for 30.00 each. The listing which is there for
> all to see states that the item SOLD for 44.99 which is totally false.
>
> I would be interested to hear what you all think about this.
>
>
>
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