eeek - don't really want to ebay my edirol Fa101 for £30

babkubwa · Post by **babkubwa** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:09 pm

Damn, 3 days , 3hrs to go and £30! this isn't looking to good. I didn't put a reserve on it. maybe a bad move.

Is this deflation kicking in already?

kibbels · Post by **kibbels** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:27 pm

I wouldn't be too worried with 3 days to go. Most people on ebay will wait until the last few minutes to put their bids in, in the hopes that by not bidding early the price will stay low and no one will notice it

This early in the auction the number to watch is the "watchers", how many people have tagged your auction to keep an eye on it. They are likely going to be bidding later.

Everything I have sold on ebay had a flurry of activity in the last 5-10 minutes with people auto-bidding each other up. Good luck!

Bagle · Post by **Bagle** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:28 pm

siliconarc · Post by **siliconarc** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:39 pm

kibbels wrote:Everything I have sold on ebay had a flurry of activity in the last 5-10 minutes with people auto-bidding each other up.

+1
sweat ye not - serious potential buyers never bid before the last 10 mins.

Bagle · Post by **Bagle** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:47 pm

yep plus if you look on american ebays these things are going for 300-400 dollars, dont worry

Mr Man · Post by **Mr Man** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:20 pm

its a bad time of the month and year for selling

Bagle · Post by **Bagle** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:26 pm

yep

november is always slow

babkubwa · Post by **babkubwa** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:41 pm

thanks for the reassurance! you might be right about the time of the month - never thought about that

aeon · Post by **aeon** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:30 pm

i will buy it for £35.

right here, right now.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:31 pm

I bid 50 including shipping.

babkubwa · Post by **babkubwa** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:07 pm

£50! wooah - I'll have my helicopter deliver it immediately!

babkubwa · Post by **babkubwa** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:08 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0303948709

SuperBassMexican · Post by **SuperBassMexican** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:18 pm

how many watchers do you have? I've sold many instruments on ebay. I started most of them at dollar. Juno 106, many tr 606s, sp 202 , microkorg ,tr 707 , tr 626 , all my electribes ,ms2000 , and some old sequential circuits . I always made my money back cept for a few 606s.

babkubwa · Post by **babkubwa** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:40 pm

I'm on 21 watchers so not so bad.

Same amount of watchers on the mpd32 and xio synth - but much higher bids curiously.

http://www.auctiva.com/stores/viewstore ... 2&siteid=3

I'll take what comes anyway. Got a bargain onyx satellite interface at £60 and a micro kontrol for £135 this week, so can't complain really!

carlv · Post by **carlv** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:01 am

garyboozy wrote:
kibbels wrote:Everything I have sold on ebay had a flurry of activity in the last 5-10 minutes with people auto-bidding each other up.
+1
sweat ye not - serious potential buyers never bid before the last 10 mins.

Everyone who knows what they're doing does this, so don't worry