Re: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences

2003-08-31 Thread ceforman
Also, as a psychological matter, when a buyer has indicated how high they would go with a bid it becomes very difficult to retreat from that monetary amount. I've personally only been able to do it once (IIRC) and that was in eBay's early days. The seller has the advantage over the buyer in

Re: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences

2003-08-31 Thread Marco Thorek
Hm, I remember years back I found SWM through their website and sent them an email because I wanted to buy some of the stuff they had listed. They actually never replied. When I saw them selling via ebay for prices higher than what their website offered I knew why. Eventually I bought one item

Re: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences

2003-08-31 Thread Edward Franks
On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 09:23 AM, Stefan Lindblom wrote: Ahoy mates!   Just curious about a certain trader on Ebay who seems to be alot into vintage games, with over a 1000 feedbacks. The traders Ebay name and mailadress is [EMAIL PROTECTED]   And I was just wondering if any of you have

Re: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences

2003-08-31 Thread ceforman
SWM have been around for a long time. They are two people, Tony and Paula. They run a small shop out in CA and apparently have a warehouse of older software. They also get some of it fromat least one supplier, though I've never gotten them to divulge any details. For awhile the biggest

Re: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences

2003-08-31 Thread Stefan Lindblom
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences SWM have been around for a long time. They are two people, Tony and Paula. They run a small shop out in CA and apparently have a warehouse

RE: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences

2003-08-31 Thread Hugh Falk
Message-From: Stefan Lindblom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 10:35 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences Thanks for all the feedback guys, highly appreciated. I guess I was expecting to hear just positive things about them

Re: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences

2003-08-31 Thread Dan Chisarick
I've purchased items directly from their website, and from ebay and have generally been satisfied. My only complaint was that once I tried buying a game from their site (Legend of Blacksilver I believe) and got no response for days. Suddenly I see it listed on ebay a week or two later. I

Re: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences

2003-08-31 Thread Stephen Emond
experience I've had, but I wouldn't count on any of their shrinkwrapped stuff being new or even complete. Steve - Original Message - From: Stefan Lindblom To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Ebay trader experiences