Posting eBay auction links: what's your opinion?

[Chas]

I think it is a good thing.

I was an eBay vendor for four years and like to think that I know a bit of how it works.

It is an auction and if you didn't win it is because at that time, at that place, for that sale someone wanted the goods more than you did. If it is only worth £50 to you and someone else bids 60, you really can't get upset - they wanted it more. People call themselves, serious bidders, but truth be told, all they were after was a bargain and they themselves were part of the process of running up the price when they gave up.

At this moment an eBay search for 'kilt' brings up 30,274 separate sales. That is without searching for 'highland', Celtic, Scotland or Scottish. Who is going to sit down and post all those sales for us - nobody. But the odd sale, that rare tartan kilt, that unique jacket, a particularly fine kilt pin - there is nothing wrong with bringing those to the attention of the membership.

Because there is no cabal, no dark underclass, no necromancers waiting to pounce on the good sales and steal them away from us. Just people who want them more than we do.

Regards

Chas

[Panache]

I think it is a good thing.

I was an eBay vendor for four years and like to think that I know a bit of how it works.

It is an auction and if you didn't win it is because at that time, at that place, for that sale someone wanted the goods more than you did. If it is only worth £50 to you and someone else bids 60, you really can't get upset - they wanted it more. People call themselves, serious bidders, but truth be told, all they were after was a bargain and they themselves were part of the process of running up the price when they gave up.

At this moment an eBay search for 'kilt' brings up 30,274 separate sales. That is without searching for 'highland', Celtic, Scotland or Scottish. Who is going to sit down and post all those sales for us - nobody. But the odd sale, that rare tartan kilt, that unique jacket, a particularly fine kilt pin - there is nothing wrong with bringing those to the attention of the membership.

Because there is no cabal, no dark underclass, no necromancers waiting to pounce on the good sales and steal them away from us. Just people who want them more than we do.

Regards

Chas

I agree with Chas. I have looked on E Bay for one of those wonderful old antique brass cantles among other highland kit and in general just give up. Too much stuff. I do appreciate those X Markers that spot something that I and the rabble might appreciate that would have gone unnoticed among the thousands of other offerings.


Cheers

Jamie

[English Bloke]

... I was an eBay vendor for four years and like to think that I know a bit of how it works.

... People call themselves, serious bidders, but truth be told, all they were after was a bargain ...

I bow to your greater experience Chas. I am far from a serious bidder but in regards to bargains, I thought that was the whole point!