As this has moved over to Chat, I'm breaking the rules and posting here as
well as Lace where it originally was.
First, I think it's just quiet because it's the weekend - it often is unless
there's a rally strong thread going.
Carol wrote:
I was
absolutely amazed that the Newnham (Newnham-style?) bobbin winder went for
£1.00 more than it would have cost to buy new, and that was without the
£2.00 x odd charged for postage and package. Is this a common phenomen,
and does it usually happen that things end up more on eBay than they would
be from a supplier
This isn't at all unusual. People decide they want the item and don't bother
to check what they can buy it for, and then auction fever takes over. I
always check the price before bidding. Secondhand books can be checked
through http://www.abebooks.co.uk or .com to see if the secondhand
booksellers have the book and, is so, what their prices are. Lace equipment
through the lace suppliers web sites.
Item number 2379971290 which finished on the 19th went for eighteen pounds,
which is the same price as SMP sell it for. If you click on the underlined
27 bids next to the word history, you'll see how the bidding went. The
bidder spinningweaving was obviously hoping to get it cheaply, but pushed
the price up with 19 bids, when he/she'd have been better off either putting
the maximum he/she was prepared to pay straight away and let others push up
to it or beyond it, or waiting till very close to the end of the auction
(known as sniping, which is how I frequently bid, much to the annoyance of
the person outbid, but it's legal) to do it. Bidding wars are a waste of
time and energy.
There's another Newnham winder Item number 2381593808, and
spinning/weaving has put the opening bid on that. I'd guess the same
amount as his/her opening bid on the previous one, which wasn't nearly
enough. What he/she needed to do was to see what the person below the winner
of the other one bid, because he/she'll probably be bidding the same amount
(or higher) on this one as well. It's unlikely that the winner of the
previous one will bid on this one, but not impossible.
There's a group of twelve modern South Bucks bobbins for sale, and there's
no point in bidding more than 12 pounds on those because Winslow bobbins
make them for one pound each. Looking at the bid history for them
daniellie is obviously keen on them because he/she put in the opening bid,
was outbid, and has bid again.
Bidding on ebay's fun provided you don't take it too seriously. If you don't
win an item, another will come along some time. If someone's prepared to pay
more than me, well good luck to them.
Carol, if you're planning to sell your pillows on ebay, have a look to see
what other have gone for to guauge what you're likely to get. Don't put them
up for sale all at once because, if you've got 12 and 12 people want one,
you'll get a low price for each. Put one up each month, and you'll more
likely get several people bidding on each.
Jean in Poole
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