Clay and Devon have got it right.
One of the reasons I leave it to the last minute is, as Clay says, if the
item has gone higher than I want to pay, I haven't wasted my time putting a
bid on early on in the listing. I also wait because another of the same item
might be listed with either a
Just spotted on ebay - 'Rosaline Lace' starting bid required £75. In the
description presently selling on Amazon UK for over £180 pounds. No, the
price currently being ASKED for on Amazon is over £180.
There are now currently 4 copies of the book which sold recently for £1.99,
with opening
Its ludicrous! Well Jean any lacemaker who is looking for a second-hand
copy of any lace title, has you and Clay to thank for advising them of how
to go about bidding for a book on e-bay. I have bought and sold (not for
some time now) on e-bay, and like yourselves, wait uuntil the last few
There are however some books that command ludicrous prices everywhere. a
particular (non lace related) book I've been after for quite some time rarely
if ever shows for less than £240 and many times goes for between £250 and £400
second hand! I believe it's original list price only 15 years ago
I buy and sell on Ebay and I have always found it great fun and it has put me
in touch with lacemakers all over the world, some of whom have become firm
friends. No one is forced to buy anything at any price. I sold all my sister's
lace books for her last year as she no longer wanted them. People
Some people may be interested in my review of Church Lace: Being Eight
Ecclesiastical Patterns in Pillow-Lace that can be found at BookDepository:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Church-Lace-1874-Milroy/9781171618447/message/fDIwMjAwXjQw#error_box.
(It is under my civil name by mistake, but it's
Hello All! The auction world is not perfect. Perhaps there is a suspicion
that the seller is bidding up the item? If you have ever attended a live
auction, you may know that the seller sometimes has a friend place a strategic
bid, usually with the result that the bidding goes higher. Don't
Hello Jean and everyone
It seems to me there are bid reminders, and also through 'watch this
item' that you can set.
For anyone's interest, ebay itself has tips and strategy on how to bid,
On 9/19/11, Jean Nathan j...@nathan54.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
The disadvantage of leaving bidding till
On 19/09/2011 17:21, bev walker wrote:
Hello Jean and everyone
It seems to me there are bid reminders, and also through 'watch this
item' that you can set.
For anyone's interest, ebay itself has tips and strategy on how to bid,
Thank goodness for the 'eBay app' for my phone. Before I had
Bev wrote:
It seems to me there are bid reminders, and also through 'watch this
item' that you can set.
I do this, but I can still forget and turn off the computer half an hour
before the end time. Unless something grabbed me by the throat and shook me,
I could forget with even 5 minutes to
Hi Fellow Spiders,
Thank you Sister Claire for pointing me to your book review! Since joining the
altar guild am always on the hunt for church lace sources. I'd seen this book
listed on Amazon and considered seeing if it was in the IOLI libarary. I'm one
of those old fashioned folks who likes
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