I guess I have bought or sold things on ebay around 70-75 times with only a
couple of bad experiences that weren't bad enough to scare me off. Recently
I put a Vivitar 728AF/Nikon flash with a Wein slave trigger on my watch list.
It went a whole week without a single bid and I bought it in the last minute
with the minimum bid of $20 just to get the slave trigger. I put the flash
back on ebay with a $5.00 starting bid and, with 3 days to go, it is at
$20.51. I sure like the price on my slave trigger. Now is a good time to
buy on ebay. Prices for comparable items are way below what they were six
months ago. K1000s sold for $150 a few months ago, but I sold one last month
in Mint- condition for $100. Seems like I have had the same kind of luck in
the stock market recently ;-)
On Thursday 14 June 2001 18:01, you wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, aimcompute wrote:
> > Thanks for the KM info Bill.
> >
> > I had a bid on a camera that sat at $56 for around 2 days. All of the
> > sudden now it has jumped up to over $107. It's hard to believe that no
> > one else had bid on it for that long. I realize that can happen and be
> > totally legitimate.
> >
> > When I see it shoot up like that after little action, it makes me
> > suspect. Just call me paranoid.
>
> I (and I'm sure most ebay-savvy people out there) never bid on an item
> until at least 5 minutes before the end. Knowing this, you have to
> keep in mind that a low price on something ending in two days is no
> indicator of what the final price will be.
>
> The best indicator of final price on ebay is the price of similar
> auctions that already ended. The best way to get bargains there
> nowadays is to catch something with a low "buy it now" price as soon
> as it's listed.
>
> j
>
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