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Someone's selling a couple of my shield bosses on e-bay.
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 10:45 am
by Mad Matt
There's someone selling a few things on e-bay among them are a couple of shield bosses I made. Thought you guys might be interested. They're both still at only $15. The pics he took aren't very good you can see better ones on my site.
My regular retail price for these is $25 each. But I don't have any stock right now. On e-bay they usually go for betwen $25-$45 but that's with the better pics.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=310&item=2700168782http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=310&item=2700168905------------------
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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 12:41 pm
by Edric
Seems you are kind of shooting yourself in the foot posting this Matt.
Pretty cool of you though.
Might have to pick one up myself.
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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 1:14 pm
by Galileo
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">From the auction listings:
Take advantage of this chance and bid early and often.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Oh yeah, get in a bidding war against yourself if no one else bids! [img]http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/rolleyes.gif[/img]
If someone bids the highest they're willing to pay the first time, then they won't "have" to bid often.
Sorry, a bit of a pet peeve of mine.
Matt, is this guy just buying from ya to resell on ebay (thereby reducing your market)?
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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 1:15 pm
by Mad Matt
Not really. I don't have any bosses in-stock at the moment and don't expect to before the auction ends.
They'll both sell no matter what. Both have a bid and there's no reserve. So I'm really just continuing my service to a past customer by helping them get the best price for something they don't want anymore.
Galileo: I have a few customers who re-sell my shield bosses. I sell them the bosses at a wholesale price and there is a stipulation that they can not re-sell the bosses on e-bay when I have stock. Therionarms is one such reseller and was recently given permission to re-sell on e-bay since I don't have stock at the moment. This person is not one of my wholesale customers. Just someone who bought a couple bosses and then probably never got around to using them. At $15 each they would be taking a loss even if they had bought them at my wholesale price.
Reselling my bosses doesn't reduce my market it can only reduce the price I get for them if I sell them wholesale. No matter what if someone buys one of the bosses I made either someone has bought it from me at some point in time or it was a gift since it's impossible to buy a boss made by me unless it was made by me. If anything having people re-sell my bosses increases my market by gaining a wider range of exposure to potential buyers. Therionarms has sold a lot of my bosses probably %90 of them I wouldn't have sold on my own.
I'm actually pretty suprised this is the first time I've seen my bosses being sold on e-bay second hand aside from the ones sold by my resale customers. I've made and sold over 300 of em. I guess people like to hold on to them.
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