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Re: Where have all the bidders gone?
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Sat, 29 May 1999 06:20:33 GMT
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Bill Katz <billk@wald.wald-kramer.com> wrote:
> I just launched an auction this week, and it appears all of the bidders
> have left r.t.l. (and lugnet). It took 3 days to get an opening bid
> on a Guarded Inn, and I still have only 10 people watching, and half
> of those are likely just to be watchers. Has the traditional r.t.l.
> auction become obsolete? Parts only? I really like running my own
> auctions. There's fun in watching the bidding, the occasional
> programming to keep things running smoothly (although never quite
> as smooth as Todd's :-) ). I like building up a rapport with
> people. Am I going to be forced to eBay to get a decent price?
Well, I figured I would check in on the 6067, the only set I'm really
interested in, in a few days or a week, see how the bidding had
progressed. If it had hit ridiculous levels I could then forget about
it, but if it were still reasonable I could jump in.
> Mike says eBay is a lot easier as a seller. I can believe that.
> And I don't relaly like it as a buyer. I hat having to watch over
> things for the last few seconds.
I hear you, it does kinda stink as a buyer sometimes. Much easier as
a seller, though.
Almost as easy, though, is how I've started doing single lots for each
piece on JABA. A few of the lots aren't selling, either because the
asking price is too high or the interest too low, but almost
everything else has, and quickly. I'm shooting for an hour and a half
per night to add 10-20 items, until I have all my extra sets parted
out, which will take me the rest of the year, minimum.
> I've got a bunch of Lego to sell over the next few months. I've
> got a couple hundred sets I'm moving for a gentleman overseas,
> and I've just started sorting a collection of over 100,000
> pieces. Maybe I should run the parts sales myself, where it
> doesn't make sense to have an eBay lot that sells for 15 - 50
> cents, and sell the sets elsewhere.
Maybe you should. Rather than use the script you're using, though,
and I say this just because as someone who has run an auction with it
I know how difficult it is to use as a bidder compared to eBay (or the
eBay-type interface of EveryAuction), I'd suggest you use EA. If you
can make the script you've been using work, EA will be cake.
> BTW, what have recent eBay prices been on 6067s and 6080s, used
> but complete?
Too high, as usual.
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| Put them on SeriousCollector would be my vote. I think the Demlow technology is last year's news. Too hard to use. People like web based stuff. That should NOT be taken as a slam of the work the Demlow brothers have put into it, or of your work, (...) (25 years ago, 29-May-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| I just launched an auction this week, and it appears all of the bidders have left r.t.l. (and lugnet). It took 3 days to get an opening bid on a Guarded Inn, and I still have only 10 people watching, and half of those are likely just to be watchers. (...) (25 years ago, 29-May-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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