That's very true, bidding early rises the price and makes other people think. Most often they will end up willing to spend more money than they would bid in the last seconds of the auction. That's why I also never bid at all until last minute. Also, the "sniping" helps hiding how much you're willing to pay. Few months ago I was bidding some lab equipment with 5x B-5445 (one broken, 4 in very good condition, + sockets and 7441s with gold legs), which was worth for me up to 200zł (50zł/tube)*. I didn't bid until last seconds and that's why my "opponent" didn't think I'll rise the base price of 40zł to absurdal amounts of money, so I ended up paying about... 60zł with postage. (4zł ~= 1$) *due to rarity and small useability of the tubes, I couldn't find reasonable prices to compare to
By the way - the best deals are out of popular auction sites. I've purchased 20x LC-631 (used) and 5x Z566M (used) 6zł each only due to fact that seller didn't post his offer on any bigger site. I've found the guy by just googling LC-631 at random. Due to unpopularity of the site I was first to contact him - and I've messaged him 8 days after he posted his offer! W dniu wtorek, 6 czerwca 2017 07:20:26 UTC+2 użytkownik SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F. napisał: > > Nice! Hope at least one is working. > > > > The problem with auction's is, if you bid early.. people have time to > think, and maybe decide to over bid you. On some item's i really wanted i > made my bid in the last 5s. > About spiking prices, this is usually when someone bids high early, like > the price is 1$, he bids 300.-, then it will remain 1$ until someone tries > to bid, and does automatically increase. > > Personally i think buying nixies is a matter of time, i never would buy a > tube for >400$. I just wait - for example, i got 3 working (but a little > dark) CD27 for only 100€ ! > Asking sellers about more tubes is always a good idea... > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/128a1f1c-9ed9-484e-86be-f43efb36c106%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
