----- Original Message -----
From: "John Allain" <allain_at_panix.com>
To: "CCTalk" <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Price Check on Aisle 5
> I made a good sum by knowing the resellers in my area of speciality
> and then contacting them carefully, for example not dumping my whole
> list on them, but just starting with the one thing they liked the most.
> ...and eBay is just too useful to ignore. Offering on eBay with a reserve
> set is a way of asking the world for a price on a thing.
> Here's a nice reseller listing site http://www.processor.com/
>
> I for one would not find a list for sale posted to classiccmp as
offensive,
> especially from regular members, at not-frequent intervals. Jim and
> Pat have done it, for example.
>
> I think priceguides per se. are nuts. I have a HotWheels that's supposed
> to be worth $250 according to one of them. But think about where price
> guides are best used, on the table at the big sale so you can open it up
> and show an otherwise unknowing buyer what all the sellers want him to
> hear. "Hey, it's not me, the price is right here in this book.", the book
> being
> published by the sellers of course.
>
> John A.
I remember a story about a collector of the old metal lunch boxes that had
1000's of them. he then decided to publich a catalog with some prices in it
and started a new collecting craze that made him a bunch of cash. Most
people will toss anything they dont want unless of couse there is a catalog
for the item out and then they want to get its "real worth".
If you want to see something funny take a few $250 baeball cards into a
store selling them and see if they want to buy any even for $20. Something
made in the millions that every collector has one of cant be worth anywhere
near $250 that some company making catalogs says it is.
I personally know what I want and how much I want to spend on an item and
wait patiently untill I find it in the condition and price I like. I hit eba
y maybe 2 times a day and see what prices are like for the items I still
want. One week it might go for $100, next month I pay $15 for one in better
condition. Some people get caught up in bidding (and I would bet they are
competing with the sellers brother pumping the price up for something he
wont buy) or just buy the first item they see that they want.
Received on Mon Sep 15 2003 - 12:06:00 BST