On Jun 13, 2005, at 6:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am really in the dark here. First you say ebay is not an auction.
Then what have I been bidding on for 8 years with almost 1000 wins
and many more items that I was outbid on? Just the other day for a
Wasp Woman insert i came in third. Was I outbid in an auction or not?
No, you were outbid in an auction-like sale with a beat the clock
endgame. In my opinion, for it to be a true auction there should be a
fair-warning type scheme at the end. Ebay is a hybrid of a true
auction venue. When listings feature a BUY IT NOW option, it is even
more of a hybrid.
Secondly--If a person is willing to sell something at a price and
another person is willing to pay that price, then why isn't that the
value of the item? Are you saying that regardless of when two people
enter into a contract where one sells and the other buys that the
value they have established is wrong and that only someone else can
tell them what the item really is worth?
No, I'm saying that two other people may enter into an entirely
separate contract
to buy another item of that same type. Taking into account that there
may be
differences in condition etc, if one buyer buys a one sheet for saw
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA on ebay for $5000 and another man buys a one sheet
for LAWRENCE OF ARABIA privately for $8000, what is the VALUE of those
items? What I am trying to assert here is the fact that the item sold
on ebay for $5000 does not LIMIT the
estimated value of that item at $5000. Many people seem to think that
ebay is the end-all and be-all in establishing the worth of things in
the area of collectibles.
It is not, in my view. That is all I meant.
The old saw that an item is "only" worth what a person is willing to
pay is a cliche,
but is does serve to illustrate that values can range over a fairly
wide area. As a seller I encounter people telling me that a poster
that I offer them for X dollars sold on ebay for Y dollars and I
should match the Y dollar figure.
I just tell them to go buy what they want on ebay. I am not ebay.
Ebay is not the only game in town.
K.
I have no clue as to what your point here is. Please explain as I
just can't figure it out and believe me I am not being sarcastic
here. I just cannot understand your point.
Claude
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