Well, I do "Watch" a lot of stuff either because I'm interested in the outcome, or I might want to bid (but either forget, or the price goes above my max before I get there). Unfortunately, Ebay provides little incentive to bid early - you are mostly giving the other bidders more time to find your max and just barely out bid you. The really serious bidders use "sniper" software to submit their bid at the verylast second. I've never done it. I would never pull an auction over a lack of bids, you never know what will happen in the last five or ten minutes.
Pieter E. Roos --- On Fri, 2/1/13, Bob Werre <[email protected]> wrote: Rusty, I have been selling and buying both model RR stuff and photography items for several years now. I've come to the conclusion that both buying and selling is a total toss-up. Sometimes the wind will carry it North, sometimes South and sometimes nothing happens. In the photo arena, I've been told to not fool around with the bids but only do" buy it now" listing. That didn't work any better. I often find the 'watch list' people are less than tire kickers too--but there are surprises too. My pet peeve are those who grab a stock photo from a website and claim the product they're selling is that unit. Also many photos are way too dark and fuzzy--maybe on purpose! Bob Werre PhotoTraxx Attached are a couple of photos of REX models I finished. These now belong to a fellow S Scaler. Some one who started in S Scale with CD models in about 1946. I did have a Suburban and a Mogul on eBay until today. I killed the auction since I had no bids what so ever but I did have a LOT of questions! T My current plans are to go ahead and finish them. Convert them to NASG standards, add more details, change the brass tyres to 303, include operating marker and head lights, and paint black. When I've done that I'll put them back up on eBay and see what happens. The price won't be $117 or $124, more like; $617 or $724. For those interested I had 30+ watchers on the Mogul and 20 on the Suburban auction. Typically guys more interested in what it sells for I would assume than actually wanting to purchase it. If they did want to purchase it they would have bid at least the minimum.
