Amiga and Commodore massive inventory on eBay

[amigadave]

TheMud wrote:
This is the second time this year that this man sells his business :-O ... How can you sell the same stuff twice :-O ... *LOL*

This is the third attempt to auction it.  The first had a starting bid of $2000 and received no bids.  The second had a starting bid of $5000 and had the same result.

I think he just doesn't have time to mess with it anymore and the overhead is $320 per month to keep the stuff.  I think most of the good items have already been sold and there is not much good hardware left.  The software is hard to sell for much profit, just look at eBay to see that even NIB items only get about $10 to $15 plus shipping.  Some don't sell, or sell for only 99 cents to $5 each.

Anyone interested in participating in a group bid, send me a PMail.  I will be out all day today but will check messages tonight.

[amigadave]

Kin-Hell wrote:
Gee, the poor fella! His starting price for that lot was $5000.00 on eBay a while back. That amount was well under what his actual Inventory was worth. He must be gutted!

Best of luck to him.  :cry:

Well, to be fair to the buyers, the prices listed for all of his inventory are a bit out of date and therefore inflated.

It is the overhead of having to pay the storage unit charges that is a killer on the deal, so unless the buyer can work at starting and completing enough auctions each month to pay the rent and make it worth his time, it won't pencil out to be an attractive purchase.  I for one don't want to work for $3.00 an hour searching through all the un-inventoried items and taking pictures to put up with the auctions.  That process is time consuming.  As for the items that are already in inventory, I am guessing that the prices have to be reduced to get them to sell more quickly to make the rent and pay the owner for his time.  That is just the way I see it, but don't take my word for anything, as I am the current high bidder, so I am prejudice about this topic. :roll: