6 Apr
2010
6 Apr
'10
8:25 a.m.
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 07:02:19 -0400
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: eBay disaster
From: shoppa at trailing-edge.com
Hi
Such words as rare or vintage in the title are a waste and often
are so over used that they may even cause the auction to be
over looked.
I suspect his main problem is that there are few people that
have drives that use these platters. Without notifying them that
there is one available it is unlikely that they look every day.
Advertising is needed.
Some items, new in the box, are worth much more than a used one
out of the box. I don't think a disk platter should get much more
than 1.5 to 2 times the price. It just isn't the type of item one
would want to put in a glass case to look at.
In most cases, a combination of poor title and lack of advertising
in the right places are the most common causes of poor sales.
As for searches, I found that one has to explicitly select locations
when not in the US. I doubt any of the US searches ever even
saw the platter. This didn't used to be true but seems to be
that way now ( good work ebay ).
Dwight
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could someone please explain me THIS?
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190385486840
I myself have put up something for sale that I was sure was "dear"
and "valuable" and "rare", and it got no bids at all. Obviously the
rest
of the world didn't agree.
Certainly telling the whole broad world that what you have is rarer
then hen's teeth and ultra-desirable is a common ploy, so common that
it means little.
I'm guessing that the people who use RK05 packs have metric buttloads
of them and don't need anymore, new or not. Certainly that describes
the existing RK05 users I know of.
Tim.