[sdiy] ebay internal shill bidding?

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 6 Jan 2011, at 20:47, David Anderson wrote:

> On 1/6/2011 3:30 PM, Bob Weigel wrote:
>> Because they are the only place on the planet with a synth market where you can buy/sell to any advantage.
> 
> Not true. You could set up a shop on your site. For someone with the right skills, it is very easy to get your shop products in google's search engine results, under the Shopping tab. It's hard to get better exposure than that.

I'm inclined to agree about this - eBay is not the only game in town. I was browsing the SoundOnSound reader's ads the other evening and found a whole pile of interesting synths that *aren't* on eBay. Prices for some were cheap (£250 for a brand new blofeld), and for other (classic) items they were expensive (£3000 for a Prophet 5 V2.2) but that's probably an accurate representation of supply/demand. At least we can be sure that it's not down to shill bids or last minute sniping.

Set up a shop, Bob, and leave eBay to their own devices if you don't like them. You can use all the 12%'s you save to pay a web designer to do a good job and get you a decent google ranking.

Regards,
Tom