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James Brown wrote:
> 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.
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 moment, that sure makes for low(er) prices. Just look at Metroliner
/ 7740 prices for instance, almost half of what they were about 1.5 years
ago!
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Jan-Albert "Anvil" van Ree | http://www.vanree.net
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