Actually, Ebay is just like Fishing, You through your line out, if the right
fish comes along......
He may re-list this item that had no takers the first time and BAM! , the
second time around it
sells. Happens to me all the time. IIRC, an NOS MP2100 sold for over $1000.00
about 2 months ago.
Go figure. Greg
"Eric L. Strobel" wrote:
> somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 12/19/01 5:00 PM, the entity
> known as Samuel Jacobson transmitted the following from
> jacobson98_at_earthlink.net:
>
> > My initial reserve was for $699, thus I was making a whole $50 (not
> > unreasonable due to the extras that come with the unit). I then received
> > some rather harsh messages, which I admit I found rather hurtful as I was
> > only asking mainly for the money I put into an eMate (originally a non-new
> > unit at that!!!), and I lowered my reserve to $650 which meant to myself
> > that I was/am going to loose money. I still do not think I was unjustified
> > in my pricing, especially for what I was offering.
>
> You are obviously under the mistaken impression that what *you* paid has
> some relation to what's reasonable to expect to get from it. Shoot, I'd
> love to get the $3000+ that I spent on my 512k Mac + Imagewriter + external
> 400k drive back in 1985, especially since I put more money into it getting
> the upgrade to a MacPlus and maxing the RAM out to 4 MB. {Dang! For a while
> I had one hot machine! :-) } But, computer equipment just doesn't work that
> way. The darn thing is basically worthless. And the 660av that I invested
> nearly $3000 in will probably sell for $20 if I'm lucky. Face it, there's
> not a person out there that cares what you spent originally. That's not
> being mean-spirited, that's just being real. What you spent matters exactly
> zero in determining what it's worth NOW. The market on eBay simply doesn't
> support an eMate at roughly THREE times the going rate (OK, my factor may be
> slightly off, as I haven't looked lately.). If you're gonna sell something,
> you need to know the market you're selling into. (I'd suggest the price
> guide at http://www.thisoldnewt.com/index2.html in addition to simply
> watching eBay for a while.)
>
> Think of it this way... When you sell your car (or trade it in) you look up
> the Blue Book value and go from there. What you paid for the car (and its
> features) never enters into it.
>
> - Eric.
>
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>
> Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
>
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