There's hope... and then there's aggressively optimistic

[Eric Christopherson]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:16 AM, P Gebhardt <p.gebhardt at ymail.com> wrote:

> Noel, I've observed this quite some times now on ebay: Some people put up
>
> auctions for a price and the auctions end with no bidders. Afterwards,
> they re-list the
>
> items long term (so no auction) with higher prices. They go fishing for the
>
> rare number of people interested in these things.
>

I saw something similar recently on Freegeek Portland's eBay store. They
listed a customized Atari Falcon030 and it "sold" for $481. Then apparently
the buyer backed out, so they relisted it, starting at $499. At
http://ebay.to/1P9Zr0y it shows it as "Ended" but I don't see a buyer
anywhere.


>
>
> Cheers,
> Pierre
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Pierre's collection of classic computers moved to:
> http://www.digitalheritage.de
>
>
> ----- Ursprüngliche Message -----
> > Von: Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
> > An: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> > CC: jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
> > Gesendet: 14:59 Freitag, 30.Oktober 2015
> > Betreff: There's hope... and then there's aggressively optimistic
> >
> > I love this person's style:
> >
> >   http://www.ebay.com/itm/281835789336
> >
> > It doesn't sell for $25? Fine, re-list it at $35!
> >
> >     Noel
> >
>



-- 
        Eric Christopherson