A couple of years back there was a pretty good example that I observed, albeit
only partially. I had several of the old Cromemco TV Dazzlers board pairs for
S-100, together with the original software, albeit on paper tape, but, for the
collectors...
I'd been told of the sale of one of these for $14K, which quickly motivated me
to search through the basement to find the ones I had. In the interval between
my starting the search and figuring out how to list things on eBay, I saw
another of them sell for $400 or so. Quite a come-down from $14K, but ...
Within a couple of weeks I had the three Dazzlers in hand and started watching
eBay for what I though was the "right" time to list one. So ... up pops a
Cromemco dazzler, and it doesn't even sell for $10 ... <sigh>
The fortunes of war, I guess ...
I'm still waiting for the "right" time to sell stuff.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ade Vickers" <avickers_at_solutionengineers.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 8:08 PM
Subject: RE: Ebay madness
> At 07:53 pm 03/08/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >I w onder what the posting fee is on a starting bid of $25K ?? eBay doesn't
> >care if he doesn't get a bid either, they make a nice posting fee for that.
>
> If he re-lists it (because no-one bid), eBay refund the original listing
> fee if it sells the second time around. I doubt they'll be happy about it,
> but I'd expect to see it come around again with a starting price of about
> $10...
> --
>
> Cheers,
> Ade.
>
>
Received on Sat Aug 04 2001 - 11:00:47 BST