"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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On 2009-02-03, Greg O wrote:
"Ignoramus13011" wrote in message

Agree? Disagree?


Prices on EBay have never made any sense. I bought a Play station game
for
my daughter a while back. There were two sellers, offering the same game,
new, unopened, very similar description. The one auction went for close
to
$100, but the other game, that bidding ended maybe 1/2 hour after the
first,
I bought for $35.

Well ... a few years ago, I was collecting tri-mikes (precision
three-point contact internal diameter micrometers), and there were two
auctions running at the same time for the same set (three or four mics,
two setting rings, the extension tubes, and the wrenches, all in a
nicely-fitted wooden box). Actually -- the poorly described set was a
little more complete, though I forget what was missing from the other.

One had lots of wonderful photos and detailed descriptions, the
other had a much less detailed description, and only a couple of photos
-- enough to tell me that it was the same, and that it was what I
wanted.

The poorly described one closed a couple of hours before the one
with the wonderful description, and I opted to bid on that
poorly-described one as the bids were *already* significantly higher on
the wonderful one. IIRC, I got the poorly-described set for about three
hundred less than the wonderfully-described one, and was thankful that
the later one was drawing most of the attention of those who were
interested. I don't know at this point, but the wonderfully-described
one had the feel of a "Reliable Tools" auction of the period.

I really would have expected more competition for the
poorly-described set since there were two hours or so between them to
give people a second chance at the well-described set, but apparently
most were too dazzled by the description on the second set -- so I got
the first set for a very reasonable price. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

I built up a collection of about three dozen Vise Grip 11R, and other
various clamps by simply watching "Vice Grip" auctions.

Steve