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Ebay Auctions 2014

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We have offices in Latvia and Lithuania and some of my colleagues work in that area.

I'm almost tempted to ask them to call and speak to the seller and see if they can arrange a viewing just to see if it's legit or not. But at £650 + £200 shipping it makes it a fairly pricey SF2.
 
My Twister ebay auction at 0.99p start or on here under the trades section. I bought it to play for a bit but bored of it now and have no inclination or time to do anything further with it

It is sold or traded as is with no implied restoration. I fixed it all to get it to play to the standard i wanted so i could enjoy it for a bit, nothing more


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=301192487449
 
99p start ! How can I not be tempted on that.... :) Looks like I'm digging deep again.

Good luck with it Jim.
 
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I have a JD for 900.
cab is fair but you dont play the cab :D

playfield fully stripped and rebuilt.
9 new balls, new rubbers,new manny cards, judge dreads back light, new front flipper rebuilds, new gold legs and bolts.
recent dmd.
All plastics and metals cleaned bright, ramps flametorched.
Overall a mint playfield with a ton of leds
All new nuts washers screws plastic protectors and foam taget pads, oh and judge decals.Oh, new translite frame plastics and latch

downside, was working before but possibly where ive connected stuff back ive made an error so balls keep ejecting and flippers dont work.
for someone who knows about these faults, be an easy fix and a great table.
cost me to buy 1050 and spent at least 100

thought id tempt you boys hehe

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Shame you're not closer would have been fun to help you sort it .....


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My Twister ebay auction at 0.99p start or on here under the trades section. I bought it to play for a bit but bored of it now and have no inclination or time to do anything further with it

It is sold or traded as is with no implied restoration. I fixed it all to get it to play to the standard i wanted so i could enjoy it for a bit, nothing more


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=301192487449
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Very brave indeed to start at 99 p! :)


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Very brave indeed to start at 99 p! :)


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I reckon that's how to sell a pin on ebay though (although I agree it takes balls to do though!). Those high 'starting price' or 'reserve' sales never seem to do so well - it'd be interesting to try and capture the data about starting prices / BIN / reserve / end prices and do some analysis on it. It'd never be perfect knowledge because of the offline deals that happen, but if one of our supremely IT literate members could write a little script or something to capture the data (assuming there is a way to get hold of the data by a program), that'd be a worthwhile analysis afterwards.
 
The problem is it could take years to get enough data to be statistically useful.
 
Agreed, statistical significance would maybe be an issue, but any knowledge is better than none. Let's not look for problems heh :-)
 
The problem is already there :P

When I looked most ebay pinball tables go unsold. (or did in the 3 week period I looked last Nov)
 
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When I looked most ebay pinball tables go unsold. (or did in the 3 week period I looked last Nov)
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But I was only suggesting we might be able to gather data and look at it in a scientific way. Whilst I know very well that it wouldn't be statistically significant due to the sample size, I'm not following your logic. "The problem is it could take years to get enough data to be statistically useful."...a vaguely statistically correct observation, but I wasn't suggesting anything more than some useful guidance, I wasn't looking for a 'theory of ebay' so sample size is fine :).

And your second comment confuses me. "When I looked most ebay pinball tables go unsold. (or did in the 3 week period I looked last Nov)". How can the counter argument to gathering a statistically small sample size be to offer your own personal limited sample?
 
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Whenever i have sold anything on ebay starting on 99p has often been the difference between it selling or not.

Super low prices get bidders emotionally committed and once they have chosen to bid they are quicker to chase that high!
 
Matti B said:
Whenever i have sold anything on ebay starting on 99p has often been the difference between it selling or not.

Super low prices get bidders emotionally committed and once they have chosen to bid they are quicker to chase that high!
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Very true.
 
Already at over £200, looks like a gokd choice

99p starts are the way to go whenever I have sold anything of value on eBay, sometimes going over the value due to a bidding war between buyers
 
Matti B said:
Whenever i have sold anything on ebay starting on 99p has often been the difference between it selling or not.

Super low prices get bidders emotionally committed and once they have chosen to bid they are quicker to chase that high!
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When I used to buy and sell a lot of vintage synths, they'd often not sell at a fixed price but when relisted as auction starting at £1.00, after ten days, they had bid up to more than my BIN. Crazy but the emotional attachment/comittment thing does seem to happen.
 
Agree with comments above. 99p auctions get more people interested and you can end up with bidding frenzies. I've seen it lots of times.

Jim's auction appears to be doing very well :)
 
99p start is the way to go! But, it does take balls. Think I would do it for a sub grand pin but not for an A lister. As much as anything else I think a 99p start gets more potential bidders in, some of which will then hopefully remain for the long haul.

Doesn't seem so far to be working as well for Chris' Hook though.;) Come on, it's got be be worth far more than the current £11.60!

The one I really don't get is the £800-ish start and then a huge reserve?!?:cuckoo: What's the logic behind that? An initial price that puts lots of people off and then one you still have no intention of selling at. Don't think I've ever bidded on a machine that's been listed like that
 
It's interesting reading all your comments regarding 99p starts. When I sell stuff on eBay I almost always use a BIN (Buy-It-Now) listing. Recently I've sold items such as a MacBook (£250), R/C helicopter (£75), vintage synth (well... Novation BassStation Rack £175), various Japanese N-gauge model railway items including trains (£100, £70, 2 x £40), buildings and scenery, a fold bicycle (£75) , etc. All of has sold within several days of listing. For me, the "secret" is to set a price that I think is reasonable for the item on offer and ask myself "Would I buy it at that price?" It's also very useful to search for similar items and then check the "Completed Listings" option to see what did and didn't sell. The next most important thing to do is put together a good set of photos and good description stuffed full of details. I also use HTML to enhance the description visually and for higher value items I then link to a set of externally hosted hi-res photos (I have my own server and domain but you could just as easily use a free service like Flickr).

A few days ago I sold a CPU cooler BIN for £9.50. Although I didn't do an HTML description due to the value I did add plenty of detail about why I was selling it, exactly which computer I'd removed it from and that I was also adding a little bonus:

Stock Cooler Master AMD CPU cooler removed from 100% working PC (Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 motherboard with AMD FX Quad Core 3.8GHz CPU) after upgrading to super-sized monster fan for over-clocking! No damage, I've cleaned out all the dust from under the fan and inside the cooling fins, and removed the old heat sink compound. 4-pin power connector. I've also included half a tube of Cooler Master thermal heat transfer compound which should be more than enough (you only need a thin smear and these small tubes usually contain enough for 2 to 3 fittings). ​

I'd upgraded the cooler on my son's gaming PC because he wanted to try over-clocking it, so a perfectly serviceable OEM Cooler Master cooler would just end up sitting on the shelf in the garage. I'm perfectly happy with the price and doubt it would have gone for more in an auction. In fact, checking completed sold items I think it would only have made half that on auction. Sometimes the beauty of BIN is getting an item quickly.

The last time I listed an item for a 99p auction (a brand-new-in-box Crabtree brass light fitting that cost £18) it went for... 1 bid at 99p. Ouch!
 
Is this guy just talking ******** about the colour here? I've never heard this before.
Originally the listing said unfaded artwork but clearly he has had people get in touch and he has now ammended his description. So what do we reckon here?

http://ebay.co.uk/itm/281343986700
 
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So what do we reckon here?
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Bullsh*t.......it's faded to f*ck! It's just an reasonable condition BR from what I can see with a faded and tatty cab.....I'd say £800 but the fact the guy is bullsh*ting about the game would make me worry about what else is wrong with it :)
 
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Bullsh*t.......it's faded to f*ck! It's just an reasonable condition BR from what I can see with a faded and tatty cab.....I'd say £800 but the fact the guy is bullsh*ting about the game would make me worry about what else is wrong with it :)
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Yeah, me too. It's pretty local so I was going to bid on it. But now I will just leave it. I'm not sure why the guy is so adament that it is not faded. Most BRs are faded like that anyway. Bull****ting about it is just weird.
 
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