Maybe... maybe not. It is incredibly easy to "buy something from
yourself" on Ebay if you want to do that to try to set a retail price to
use in later (possibly private) negotiations -- you only pay a couple of
percent to Ebay if you do that, not like the 19% it would cost you at
Heritage. Or some joker may have bid it without ever intending to pay
for it -- Star Wars items can attract a oddball crowd. I'm not saying
either thing is what happened in this case, I have no way of knowing,
but the zero feedback rating of the buyer is often a red flag.
There's no denying it is strange that a powerhouse record-price-setting
operation like Heritage could only get about $5.5 K for this set 6
months ago and now someone manages to sell it for double that amount out
of the blue on Ebay. While anything is possible, I find it hard to
believe that there a people willing to spend $12,000 on a set of movies
posters on Ebay who don't also regularly frequent Heritage auctions. Why
didn't whomever just paid $12,500 simply bid for this set 6 months ago
on Heritage and pick them up for a whole lot less? But maybe his ship
only just came in recently (the stock market has been on a tear for the
past 6 months), or maybe he just wasn't paying attention 6 months ago
when Heritage auctioned them. Auctions are like the weather -- you can
sort of predict what is likely to happen based on past events, but
random lightning strikes, hail storms, freak down pours, or an new
player or unexpected bidding war can always strike and make a joke of
all the carefully calculated predictions.
-- JR
Brek Anderson wrote:
Fact: Jealous critics, price Czars, and ebay format experts were all
wrong. Walter proved to be the smart one. Love it! Cheers to the seller!
Brek
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roland Lataille" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 11:17:00 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: Re: [MOPO] 15 2001: a space odyssey posters on EBAY for
$10,625 sold on Heritage
*The difference is that you start your auctions at 99 cents. This
seller starts at $10,625 and as you say on your web site - "Fact:
Buyers tend to ignore auctions with high starting bids". *
I just checked EBAY and they sold for $12,500! You just never know who
is on EBAY and what they are willing to pay.
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*From:* David Lieberman <[email protected]>
*To:* [email protected]
*Sent:* Thu, November 26, 2009 2:28:48 PM
*Subject:* Re: [MOPO] 15 2001: a space odyssey posters on EBAY for
$10,625 sold on Heritage
hmmmmm......we buy stuff all the time from Bruce, Heritage, other
auction companies, Ebay, other collectors, and other dealers from all
over the world and routinely sell them for 2 times or even more than
what we paid for them.
or maybe I've been hallucinating all the years and I should start
looking for a new job too.
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Well, if they make there living asking for double of what someone else
paid for the same set, they need to find a new job. No one is going to
pay that amount.
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