Great question! I wonder about this ALL the time. I see it as hurting the
lowest end items quite a bit. Why should anyone buy an item just because it
is cheap, if they really don't care about it? There are surely going to be
lots more items next week or next month, so why not hold that money for a
while and buy something else with it that you like a lot better?
Maybe rich speculators from other hobbies are/will be putting their money
into our relatively tiny little hobby? That helps for a little while, but
then they almost always get bored and sell back everything they bought
within a year or two, and even if they lose, that doesn't help the hobby
very much.
Did I see correctly that there were over 800 passed items at Heritage? If
so, that too might be a sign that too much is being offered, to where it is
over-whelming the number of buyers.
But if that is true, then it just means that it is the best time ever to be
a collector, because if there is an "over-supply" it HAS to mean there are
some good (and great) deals out there!
Bruce
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Helmut Hamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> maybe you're right, and it is eBay that's dead. Then again, anybody bids in
> the last seconds these days, so I still have some hope left!
>
> However, this brings me to another topic I have been thinking about for
> some time:
>
> At the time being, there are constantly TONS of material on offer: eBay,
> three major Heritage auctions a year, 1500+ lots from Bruce every week, and
> so on.
>
> So far, we see new 'world records' quite frequently, and the next 'bigger
> than ever' auction event always seems to be just around the corner.
>
> What I wonder is: How long can the market eat up this constant flow of
> material?
>
> Is the decay of the poster market on eBay just the self-deserved downfall
> of a corrupted system, or will it be exemplary for the hobby?
>
> Remember, a few years ago eBay spiralled poster prices into new dimensions,
> very much like some live auctions do today.
>
> I wonder: Is the hobby actually prospering or are we aslready in a bubble
> that's going to burst sooner or later, like the New Economy did?
>
> Let's hear some opinions on this.
>
> Helmut
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Helmut Hamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote;
> frankly, I wonder if horror and scifi is dead? So far, most of these posters
> are basically a GIVEAWAY!
>
>
>
> Maybe you are misidentifying the corpse. I think it is eBay that is "dead",
> not horror and sci-fi!
>
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
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