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Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits
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Date: 
Wed, 6 Jun 2001 16:50:23 GMT
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Matt Penney writes:
Why are the Prices so low at Ebay right now?  A friend asked if I would help
him out by helping him sell off his collection.  Ebay isn't bringing the
results I have commonly seen in the past.  *shrug* Any gueses? Should I wait
before posting more of his collection?

At a guess, I'd say that it's a combination of eBay finally reaching a
market saturation, and the blah economy starting to trickle down to
secondhand markets.

By market saturation, I mean that enough people are aware of and using eBay
that the general trend is shifting towards deal-finding, and away from "just
saw it, gotta have it, might not see it again" buying.

'Course, I'm not an economist or anything like, so I'm probably out to lunch.


$0.02

James



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(...) Well your reasoning sounds logical to me... and eBay Germany is doing even worse than eBay USA... now since I'm mainly an eBay BUYER I'm not complaining :-) Indeed, there isn't much that isn't offered at least once a month on eBay at the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
  Re: tips wanted: Selling Custom Kits
 
(...) Yep, I think so too. Seems like sales (at least on BB) started to trail off about mid-April. They are just now showing renewed signs of life. I think this is somewhat cyclical. I saw something similar happen (although now quite as intense) (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.theory)

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Why are the Prices so low at Ebay right now? A friend asked if I would help him out by helping him sell off his collection. Ebay isn't bringing the results I have commonly seen in the past. *shrug* Any gueses? Should I wait before posting more of (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jun-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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