7 Apr
2010
7 Apr
'10
12:03 a.m.
Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
What did I do wrong?
When offered in an open
market with asymmetrical information and indeterminatedesire, if an item sells for more
than certain people on this list think itshould, the people who spent more are
idiots/clueless/scum/damaging the vintagemarket.
When offered in an open market with asymmetrical information and indeterminatedesire, if
an item sells for less than certain people on this list think itshould, the people who
spent less are parasites/snipers/scum/damaging thevintage market.
This is a once a month or more thread. Seriously, do we really need to rehash it?
KJ
7 Apr
7 Apr
12:15 a.m.
I do not have any problem with any discussion that Philipp wishes to
bring up, given his efforts on the group. I do wish that these topics
were brought up in advance, rather than as an after thought, but then
someone else would complain. (not me).
It did bring up several flaws in the exercise, which hopefully will help
others with their sales.
There seems to be more large collections being thinned than in the past,
which concerns me. Usually a lot of material appears here due to an
estate, but hopefully only the stress of the economy is forcing some of
the sales, and not lessening of interest. I am not saying this at all
in Phillipp's case though, just a general observation.
Jim
On 4/6/2010 9:03 PM, Ken Seefried wrote:
<snip>
This is a once a month or more thread. Seriously, do we really need to rehash it?
KJ
2:41 a.m.
On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:15 AM, jim s wrote:
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
There seems to be more large collections being thinned
than in the
past, which concerns me. Usually a lot of material appears here
due to an estate, but hopefully only the stress of the economy is
forcing some of the sales, and not lessening of interest. I am not
saying this at all in Phillipp's case though, just a general
observation.
I can't speak for others, but my own small set of sales has been
purely economically-motivated.
-Dave
8:53 a.m.
Hi,
jim s wrote:
I do not have any problem with any discussion that
Philipp wishes to
bring up, given his efforts on the group.
Thank you :-)
I do wish that these topics
were brought up in advance, rather than as an after thought, but then
someone else would complain. (not me).
I'll announce the next pieces early -
living with possible complains.
It did bring up several flaws in the exercise, which
hopefully will help
others with their sales.
Yes, that was the idea. In the meantime I found out that
eBay makes a difference on which website
you post your auctions. They mention that checking some international options (I think I
already did
that!) will show your auction wherever you want. I won't trust that. So I will sell on
eBay.com next
time. People looking for pdp stuff from outside US do international searches far more
regular I
assume - as most of the stuff is offered in US.
There seems to be more large collections being thinned
than in the past,
which concerns me.
Me as well. One after another. Mentioned that in my reply to the
April 1st message which currently
is not too far from reality to be detected as such immediately..
Usually a lot of material appears here due to an
estate, but hopefully only the stress of the economy is forcing some of
the sales, and not lessening of interest. I am not saying this at all
in Phillipp's case though, just a general observation.
My collection is not
thinned out. It's still growing, making me looking for space. I will probably
sell some items at some point in time. But I usually prefer trading. I personally never
had much
money so I count myself to the class of collectors that swap, get for free and give away.
The stuff
I am selling off comes from someone else whom I help to sell some items he wants to get
rid of. In
turn, I'll get some other sfuff from him. There will be a TC11 controller up for
auction - that's
why I wrote about it. Must be a nice device and seems to be highly desired. I personally
have two of
those that won't be sold.
> This is a once a month or more thread. Seriously,
do we really need to
> rehash it?
Why not? I overlook so much traffic on this list without even
complaining about things I'm not
interested in. So why don't other people partially don't do so? Let's not
start a big discussion
about that. But wasting storage space or bandwidth should be no argument.
Best wishes,
Philipp
--
http://www.hachti.de
3:58 p.m.
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Ken Seefried wrote:
When offered in an open market with asymmetrical
information and indeterminatedesire, if an item sells for more than certain people on this
list think itshould, the people who spent more are idiots/clueless/scum/damaging the
vintagemarket.
When offered in an open market with asymmetrical
information and indeterminatedesire, if an item sells for less than certain people on this
list think itshould, the people who spent less are parasites/snipers/scum/damaging
thevintage market.
Ahhh, a good reference to Gorge Carlin's classic,
"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you
is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
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