posted on November 10, 2007 11:48:59 AM new
I have about 20 items up for sale this week, ending this Monday night. 7 of them have had bids (1 each) since the first day, and there have been NO other bids all week, very odd for me.
I know this is a holiday weekend; I know that people are feeling money-crunched these days, with rising fuel costs and Christmas coming. This just seems strange to me.
Every item (all collectibles) have watchers, so I'm hoping/assuming there were will last-minute bidding.
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posted on November 10, 2007 06:46:30 PM new
my sell thru rate is 10%.
If they are not already thrown out of their house,they are struggling to meet higher mortgage payment or losing money in the stock market!
More mortgages with teaser rates will be adjusted upward in the next 6 months,so dont expect any turnaround !
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Lets all stop whining !
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[ edited by hwahwa on Nov 11, 2007 06:02 AM ]
posted on November 10, 2007 07:43:23 PM new
I think eBay had a real problem earlier this week with indexing items for searches. A batch of my items listed last Sunday did not get the number of bids or watchers I expected.
posted on November 11, 2007 06:06:32 AM new
Ebay has more problems than indexing your items.
It is borrowing a page from Detroit,instead of cutting prices,it is rolling out incentives-free gallery,discount listing fee .
Soon it may have to base the FVF on final bid amount PLUS shipping.
posted on November 13, 2007 01:09:33 PM new
Update: 17 of my 19 items sold; the $$ winner was a Christmas card from Jose Ferrer (sold to one of his sons!) - $50. Turns out all the bidders are getting savvy and waiting until the last hour or so to bid.
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posted on November 13, 2007 03:06:59 PM new
wow roadsmith ... still, ...that is a cool 'buyer' ........... but no. ebay is NOT what it used to be. ... coulda gone for 5 times that in the good old days
but you gotta admit, you've already done very well over your, what was it, 20 or 25 dollars you bought the whole batch of celeb paper for? .... gotta luv it.
posted on November 13, 2007 03:15:39 PM new
Aintrich: I am not complaining. I haven't added up the $$ amounts lately, but I know I've made more than $3,000 on that $20 investment. Plus it's fun meeting the collectors; almost all of them have a personal connection with the celebrity and are very grateful to win the card.
When I listed a Jayne Mansfield/Mickey Hargitay card and said the girl in the photo was Mariska, at least two or three friends of the family e-mailed to correct my error. It's weird to think that people are watching for friends' names in eBay auctions. . . .
I'm really going to miss those cards when they're all sold. I'm trying not to flood the market (started with about 15 Bob Hope cards but have held back half or so until later) with some of the extra cards I have from a given celebrity.
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posted on November 13, 2007 09:54:02 PM new
Roadsmith, I know what you mean. I had a batch of my g-g-aunt's postcards from a 1912 tour of Europe that I sold when I first started on eBay. None of the living relatives that knew her as a middle-age matriarch liked her, so there was no emotional attachment to them. As they sold, I became very intrigued with her. Besides having excellent taste in postcards, she was very witty and flirty in her comments on the back and lacked the hoity-toydiness she acquired when she matured. I would love to have the cards back and assemble a "Travels with my Aunt" display. At the same time, I did make good money on them and most of them landed back "home", in the villages they were purchased. I received many emails that the people and places noted in her copious notes were very meaningful to the buyers. In any case, they are bringing far more joy today than they did in the 80 years they spent in a box in an attic.
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