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Re: Mini Auction - 6273 - Rock Island Refuge
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 9 Mar 1999 03:55:57 GMT
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cjc@newsguy.comIHATESPAM
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 1999 17:38:02 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley)
> wrote:
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> > If you as a seller want $1,000 for your set that normally fetches $200
> > it doesn't matter how many buyers you have - you still won't make it.
> > Unless, of course, you find the random moron who would be willing to
> > abide by your wishes instead of using common sense.
>
> Actually, Mike, if you're the _only_ one offering that set at that
> time, the random guy willing to pay $1k _might_ not be a moron. Just
> like people willing to pay 2-3 times retail for SW sets _now_ aren't
> necessarily morons, just very, very impatient... And probably quite
> simply with enough money that they don't really care if it costs them
> that much to get stuff _now_ instead of in a few months.
While I suppose there are people to whom $800 is so insignificant that
it isn't worth waiting for another to come along, I don't know any of
them. I can't imagine even Larry doing that, primarily because it has
been my experience that foolish people don't do as well by themselves
as Larry obviously have. And throwing $800 away on impatience is
foolish.
$100 maybe. $200 perhaps. $800? Nope.
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| (...) I'd say if you have multiple sellers competing to the point that lower prices are offered that annoy you then you don't quite HAVE that seller's market. If you as a seller want $1,000 for your set that normally fetches $200 it doesn't matter (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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