I think that the detailed description is one of the keys to successful selling on e-bay. I have never had the knack of doing that.
===================================== Lightfoot IA was an eBay seller with good feedback. He would take common 2 minute Edison gold molded records and sell them at $30 to $40 each. He was able to do this because of the ad, he told about the artists, the record, when it was made, the weather that day, by the time you read his ad you wanted that record. Records with low catalog numbers like 7 or 40 he pointed this out and they went high. On eBay the ad makes a big difference and with phono items you have to start the price low to get people to bid. Firebottles is a pro at what he does, I have written him several times and I have always gotten a courteous reply. I'll bet he had to sit down when he saw the final price. I do know of machines that have been bid up high and the buyer backed out. About five years ago some bozo put a standard A on eBay. This guy was not a collector or anyone we know. He was an antique dealer and the standard he was selling was so worn that it had absolutely no pinstriping at all and came with a dismal looking horn. He said this machine was mint and in all his 30 years as an antique dealer he had never seen one better and it sold for $750.00 to someone who had probably never seen a standard before. I have purchased a blank weight C on eBay for $80, it had no ad and the photos were poor, I bid the starting offer and was amazed I won. With a good ad and photos it would have gone for over $200 at the time. Steve _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
