[pure-silver] Re: buying photo stuff on ebay
- From: Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:13:29 -0700
On Wednesday, June 27, 2007, at 09:39PM, "Ray Rogers" <earthsoda@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
>--- Dave James <charlie_5oclock@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>Will
>> you still bid if the auction ends (or extends) at
>> 3AM?
Look, its a matter of knowing your own mind.
My max bid is not the price I'd like to get it at, but its the price I'd as
soon not pay for it. So, if it goes away from me, I'm just as happy to see it
go. This way when I miss something at auction I'm relaxed. Time and again on
eBay and at other auctions I've seen silly bidding wars with buyers cought up
in the psychology of "ownership" where they start to think of the item as
theirs and are prepared to pay insane amounts not to let it go.
The bottom line is: unless your investing, something is worth what you are
prepared to pay for it. no more, no less.
My 2c.
Larry Cuffe
>
>Well, that is exactly what I did tonight... in order
>to get two things I wanted!
>
>The problem with the max bid system, in my opinion, is
>that it is inflexible. Yet in fact there is little,
>indeed, very little difference between a maximum bid
>and one a dollar or two higher... so there is some
>room for a certain amount of rethinking and
>manervuering without differing significantly from what
>one initally calculated on spending.
>
>I dont want to offer to pay a 1000 (and possibly have
>to do so) just because I do not know what is going on
>in the othe guys mind...
>
>I guess if you are just buying common items, it is not
>really important, but I think there ARE a lot of
>unique items, and even very similiar things do sell
>over a pretty wide range of price...
>
>> So you're in favor of a system that forces every
>> interested party to be at their computer as the
>> auction comes to a close?
>
>I dont use or look at those auctions as regular places
>to buy daily goods... but rather a place to find
>something special, that I cant find elsewhere.
>
>
>How successful do you
>> think that would be in a 24/7 global market?
>
>dunno... dont really understand the question.
>
>Will
>> you still bid if the auction ends (or extends) at
>> 3AM?
>
>Yes if thats what it takes to get what I want...
>
>> There are very few unique items listed on eBay. If
>> you do a bit of research, you can get an idea of
>> what an item will sell for, and then you can decide
>> how much you're willing to pay.
>>
>> Once you've done that, place your proxy bid and
>> walk away.
>
>Sure, if you dont REALLY care if you get the item or
>not.
>
>The more you want the item, however, the less
>attractive this method becomes....
>
>
>Ray
>
>
>
>
>------------------------------------------------
>> Bill Stephenson <photographica@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Ray -
>>
>> Ever since I became aware of eBay, I've wished that
>> they'd to to what
>> you describe as the "Japanese system". Let's have a
>> REAL auction -
>> one that doesn't end until no one will raise the
>> bid. I'm a regular
>> brick-and-mortar auction-goer, and I know that my
>> bid isn't the
>> winning one until the auctioneer pauses, looks
>> around the room one
>> last time, and then says "SOLD". That's the way it
>> should be - honest
>> competition down to the last bid.
>>
>> If eBay were to set itself up so that an auction had
>> a "target time"
>> at which it would end - but only after a two-minute
>> period of
>> inactivity. Then we could all take part in a real
>> "auction", not a
>> "timed sale" (or something - I don't really know
>> what to call an eBay
>> sale).
>>
>> Until and unless they do this, well...I'll just keep
>> on using eBay as
>> it is!
>>
>> -Bill
>
>
>
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