Bandsaw for sale

[Tony]

Hi, I have my bandsaw for sale on ebay, if anyone is interested.

[Bay Area Dave]

I noticed a little "puffery" in your ad Tony. Comparing it to the Powermatic? tsk tsk.

dave

T> Hi, I have my bandsaw for sale on ebay, if anyone is interested. >

[Tony]

It is comparable, is it not?

[Mike in Mystic]

Yes, it is. Just not favorably hehe :)

A Ford Taurus is a car. A Ferrari Enzo is also a car. Are they comparable?

;-)

[Tony]

[Mike in Mystic]

Unisaw gray, of course.

[Bay Area Dave]

LOL!

dave

Mike > Unisaw gray, of course.

[Rich]

Tony,

It doesn't have the little air blower thingy so how could it be comparable. Just that it has the same frame, wheels, pullies, bearings, etc is irrelevant.

Rich

[Myxylplyk]

One bid, $300....hmmmmm From a first timer that created his account when...oh yeah...today...

Pretty sleezy tony

Myx

[Larry C]

I wouldn't have gone as far as to say it was sleazy. He could put a reserve on it of $300. He could start it at $300. He could start it at something less and submit his own bid of $300 (not allowed per eBay rules). All three get the auction to the same point which is if you want it you have to pay at least $300. Seems like a reasonable price for it.

Good catch on the new buyer that just registered today. It could be a legit buyer, but it sure seems coincidental. If it's the seller it could backfire. Some buyers won't bid if someone else has already bid so it could scare someone away rather than trying to indicate interest.

[BIG JOE]

Easy boys. I have the same band saw, plus the riser block.

It does look rather new. Don't know why it needs a tuneup, but if it's nothing serious, $300 is a good price, and I don't see anything about "reserve not met". The reserves piss me off more than anything. What type of game is that? Let us know the starting price and have at it.

Joe

[Tony]

[rhncue]

I agree with Joe 1000%. If an item has a reserve I won't bid and I never look at it again. Got no time for silly games. Dick

[Edwin Pawlowski]

I don't think I completely agree. If something has a reserve of $100 but is truly worth $1000, you may be missing a good deal by not bidding an honest $200 or $500 up front..

Maybe someone that has been selling on eBay can give some insight.

Let's say you have a widget that cost $500 new, has little use, and you really want to get a minimum of $300 for it. It is worth at least that amount, probably more. You post it to eBay and the only bid you get is $20. Do you really want to let it go for that? Of course not. Perhaps you just did not get the traffic looking for widgets this week. Should you be forced to sell at an unrealistic low price?

So, do you set a minimum of $250 or $300 or do you set a reserve. If the minimum is set, people will hesitate to bit hoing to nab it for that price at the end. --OR-- do you set a reserve and hope the bidding gets pushed up to even higher amounts.

I've not tried selling anything on eBay, but if I did, I'd want to h ave a minimum on valuable items. Peddling "yard sale" stuff for $20 would not be a big deal, but cars, machines, etc, is a big deal. Ed [e-mail]

[Tony]

[Unisaw A100]

First off, lighten up or stop posting eBay auctions here on the wreck (1).

Second, the people who are casting the aspersions, they ain't your public. The people who are looking at your auction, they don't give a shit what anyone else says. They only want to find the deal of the century.

Third, lighten up. We don't know you, we don't know where you live and the truth of the matter is, we will have forgotten you by this time next week.

(1) This is not an encouragement to stop posting auctions. She-it and boy howdy you'd have to be a fool to not post your auctions here. You can double the number on your hit counter by posting the auction here.

UA100

[Edwin Pawlowski]

Neither do we. OTOH, if I put a bandaw on eBay, I'd want to cover my ass somehow.

Any time you post in a public forum, you are subject to many opinions, be they right or wrong. Most of the time it is best just to chuckle at them and move on. The followups were more general comments about the auction media that a personal attack on you and your auction. Yours just happend tobe the example.

Good luck selling it and I really do hope you get a good price.

[Tony]

[hex]

The only reason to have a reserve is if you want to generate lots of views of the listing and maybe some bidding interest by starting the bid way below what you think is fair market value. As both a seller and a buyer I'd rather have the auction start somewhere at or near fair value. As a seller, starting at a fair price keeps the moron-bidder factor down --- yeah right bidder really thought you'd get that Uni for $96.50? either bidder is playing around or stupid and either way I probably don't want to sell to them. As a bidder, I'd rather not play games and waste my time --- if the seller's notion of fair market value (encoded in the reservce) is out of line I don't want to buy from them.

That's the theory.

Agreed, for trinkets who cares -- you can't lose much. On the other hand I've sold over hundred items at about $500 per and bought things up at up $5-6k -- at those levels you want to deal with people who are straight forward,

hex

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[BIG JOE]

I agree. I don't mind seeing the Ebay posts here. On the other hand, be prepared for people to comment on your product, since that's what we do here.

Joe