That bid seems rather ridicilous to me, whatever the reasons for making that bid was in the first place.
eBay is such crap, anyways, I'm really seldom using it. It seems people can do pretty much anything on eBay and get away with it. Retracing of bids is really boring. Often people bid insane amounts to scare of other interested buyers, then before the retrace option runs out they retrace their bids and have many less people to fight against. I did see a really not that rare ACE OF BASE PROMO CD (no, I am not joking) going up to $1500... just to be retraced. What joy the seller must have felt when it went for, like, $150 in the end. Not.
In theory... my Amiga collection would be worth something like $10000 or even more if were to look at some previous auctions and their bids.
Maybe I should try to sell my mint F-18 Interceptor, claiming its RARE, demanding something like $150? I guess there must be someone finally not being able to restrain from putting a bid, believing the claimed rareness.
I'm so fed up with RARE, SHRINKWRAPPED, ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME auctions! AAAAAAAAAARGH! But if people fall for it... well, then its nice for the seller. On occasions things are rare, but too often they are not. What disturbs me the most, though, is that when a wave like this sweeps over the world, everything is suddenly so expensive... because people that doesn't care anything at all about all the "crap" they have had stored in a closet for years, because they have been to lazy to throw it away, suddenly realises that they can sell it for big money...
...but fortunately something else happens after a while, when the market has been flooded with these "rare" items... then the items don't get sold, because the buyers can see that the items are not really that rare, and then the prices drop again due to lost interest from the buyers.
I sold my SNES - Secret Of Mana (EU release) in good condition on a Swedish auction site. It was almost NEVER up for sale at the time. I got it sold for $150. One week later there were SEVERAL auctions up on the same site, with really high starting bids... (I had my starting bid down at $40, I think) ...and no one got any bids. Just some weeks later the game was rather regularly put up on the site, but with humane prices. Sweet.
Considering the A500 auction... I don't find that one really THAT insane, considering all the books that came with it. The A500 in itself have no real value, though... I would never pay more than $20 for the computer in itself (with nothing included besides a PSU). Or, actually, I would never pay anything at all to get hold of an A500... but that's just me.
