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Re: Too many auctions?
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lugnet.market.theory
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Fri, 26 May 2000 15:15:03 GMT
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In lugnet.market.auction, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Hi,
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> lawrence wilkes wrote:
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> > I cant critise folks for holding auctions, I do it myself, but just as an
> > observation there are now 2500 items of lego for auction on ebay USA. Thats • 50
> > pages to browse. There are over 150 items closing tonight alone.
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> > Hard to keep track. And thats just ebay, and just USA.
> >
> > As more and more sets come up for sale it must depress prices I guess. Some
> > things certainly dont seem to be realising what they did last year. Though
> > perhaps the genuinely rare ones continue to improve in value as awareness
> > increases.
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> For sets, I would agree. This is why I part things out. It is possible that • some
> of these lots are one or two people's mass-listing pulse. It is also true • that
> many of these auctions are for the same thing. My 8480 shuttles on eBay never
> failed to fetch over $120, and that is six instances between February and now.
> (It may, however, be due to my willingness to ship internationally--lately the
> good prices have generally come from outside the US. So I'm all in favour of
> people continuing to declare "I will only ship inside the US," because it • means
> more and better business for me!)
A good point. Those from outside of the US may not always win, but they do help
push the price up!
Scott A
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> This is part of the reason I part sets out. That way shoppers in a crowded • eBay
> market can search for the specific parts they want, I get better prices per • piece
> on sets that are relatively cheap, and the buyer gets just what they need. An
> increase in volume might depress my final price a little bit, but not *too*
> significantly.
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> Anyways, that's my $0.02, going once.
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> best
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> Lindsay
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> [Ohyeah, XFUT -> .market.theory]
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