11 Jan
2015
11 Jan
'15
12:18 p.m.
My point is only that, why unnecessarily
make it harder and/or more costly for
the eventual real buyer? That's not
collegiality either. Sellers with no
knowledge of what they're selling are
using "apparent interest" as their
primary calculus on their pricing, so
excessive interest that isn't even real,
just inflates their expectations to
beyond reasonable.
I'm not talking about ripping anyone
off. I'm talking about keeping things
REASONABLE and win-win fair.
Auctions are not collegial -- they're
competitive, and since when is
competition a negative? But one form of
collegiality would be the non-serious
people not making things harder for the
serious people.
- J.
On 1/11/2015 11:34 AM, Sean Caron wrote:
Sheesh! Not so collegial! My take has always been, if
you find a hidden
gem, great, but if it gets blown up and the item's got buyers swarming and
the price is shooting up, c'est la vie... Nobody owes us cheap additions to
all our personal collections (though of course it's nice when it happens
anyway). I do miss the "old days" when so much of this stuff was just
generally available for the taking, nobody would have ever thought to fight
over it!
Best,
Sean
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:15 AM, js at cimmeri.com<js at cimmeri.com> wrote:
On 1/11/2015 4:50 AM, jim s wrote:
I talked to him at length and got a little more
on the story. ...
... [snip]
I'm willing to say that my impression of the guy is that he had very high
expectations of what he had stored...
No wonder. As a buyer, the worst thing you can do with any seller is
have a
bunch of people calling up, expressing interest, and informing the
seller that he has special items and that there are special groups of
people out there who are interested. Now the seller's beliefs in a high
value are confirmed.
It's far better for a potential buyer that the seller thinks he has junk
only a scrap dealer is interested in. Scrap dealers don't pay diddly squat.
The more who call, the more the sellers hopes are raised.
Why people who have no actual capability of purchasing these items are
calling the seller up and taking up their time, is beyond me. All you do
is raise the difficulty of negotiations for the actual guy who might end up
buying the items.
Any actual buyer is fully capable of getting all the answers they need
without your interference.
For the similar reasons, as a frequent buyer, it also highly annoys me
when systems on eBay or Craiglist are found and rebroadcasted here. Now,
my chance find has been made aware to a much wider audience, the
competition shoots way up, and I have to pay more.
Of course, there's sellers here too who benefit from the rebroadcasting.
But I say, let them broadcast themselves.
- J.