[sdiy] ebay internal shill bidding?

[Bob Weigel]

On 1/6/2011 2:23 PM, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> On 6 Jan 2011, at 20:47, David Anderson wrote:
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>> On 1/6/2011 3:30 PM, Bob Weigel wrote:
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>>> Because they are the only place on the planet with a synth market where you can buy/sell to any advantage.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Regards,
> Tom
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Or I could just do it myself.  LOL.  I'm trying as noted some other 
sites.  So far I got ONE (1) hit from blujay...and the broken english 
tipped me that it's probably someone phishing for my email so they can 
spam me.  Apparently blujay has no isolate for that kind of thing.  The 
only option I see is to reply to the clown.  Forget it.

Sound on Sound is great if..you're in UK.  Looks like a good bunch of 
listings though!  That's actually the most synths I've seen in one place 
off ebay I think.  The US should have a similar site going...but IN THE 
PAST ohhhh..I'm remembering buying a jx10 from a lady in st. louis...and 
I do use the 'lady ' term perhaps inaccurately.  She represented it as 
mint.  I got it and the guy I bought it from...well he saw it and said 
"That HO!"....lol.  It was in fairly rough shape actually and most of 
the key contacts were needing help..virtually none of the buttons worked 
etc.  Many hours of labor later I sold it to someone else and barely 
came out with anything for my time...as back then it was still possible 
to make a local sale in the local music store.

Anyway I've been able to ..using ebay and very limited dollar, build a 
pretty incredible studio/museum here.  I seriously can't see how it 
would have been possible without being one of the early snipers.  So I 
mean I appreciate the opportunity the phenomena afforded but like I say 
we'll see how it works out.  If the guy is straight up and can bring 
evidence forth ... we'll possibly be seeing a diversification.  Just 
wanted to give you guys a heads up on that.  I repeat I don't *know* 
that they're doing this.  The successive incident of barely winning 
auctions when they first went with that anonymous thing... made me 
strongly suspicious and we'll see if it turns out to be just coincidence 
hopefully.  I always hope the best but expect the possibility of the 
worst :-)

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