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Re: amiga ebay users are they stupid ?
« on: August 26, 2003, 09:12:17 AM »
Generally selling amiga items, you are probably better to go a la carte, that is sell items individually.  Of course that may mean you'll get stuck with that 2400 baud Supra Amiga modem.  But someone who just wants a video card  or a plain vanilla A4000 is more likely to bid on individual items than if the whole thing is rather pricey.  For example, I just won a bid on a Cyberstorm ppc 200 with a 9 gig Scsi drive.  I really just wanted the Cyberstorm, the drive is a nice bonus ( although it probably drove the shipping cost up with the weight) but he could have sold the drive separately and I still would have paid the same price for the PPC card.  One other thing is don't restrict your sales by limiting to where you'll ship.  The old law of supply and demand says that if you increase your demand by selling to more countries, you'll drive your auction price up by increasing the number of bidders.  I find that most people (about95%) will ship to other countries even if their auction is coded "will ship to Germany, US or Lichtenstein only".  It's the ones that say that in the body of their auction that tick me off, especially if it's something I wish to bid on.  I'm tempted to send them a nasty letter saying "Screw you buddy, it's only your own throat your cutting."  But I don't, after all I'm one of those polite Canadians  that say sorry when someone else bumps into me :-)
Oh, by the way don't ship UPS if the package is going to cross  the border.  They are bandits and will hose you brokerage charges like you wouldn't believe.  I've rarely had a problem with the Post, but I've always had problems with UPS.