12-12-2017, 09:22 PM
(12-12-2017, 01:29 AM)Phil Kingdom Wrote: Unless the seller is asking silly money at the start of the bidding you cant really blame them if the bidding goes sky high, the trouble is people jump on the bandwagon and the price of the item tends to stay high and that is bad for everyone in general and forces prices up. As most A7 spares are fairly easy to obtain it is always worth checking the sold and completed listings before bidding and that applys to everything on E-bay if you are buying or selling.
There is not much you can do against a couple of I must have it bidders, but if more people did their homework we would see more reasonable prices for all, also it pays to know what you are buying or selling, I did not know for example that there are at least two versions of the Source Book, the reprint is not as good a quality as the original, this was pointed out to me when selling one of each and the difference is quite noticeable when you compare them, the guy who bought them both paid the asking price for the original and got the reprint at a lower price, both cheaper than the E-bay prices at the time, when I pointed out how much they sold for on E-bay, his reply was yes but this aint E-bay!
The Source Book is about to be reprinted, so the high prices asked of current ones will plummet!
It happens everywhere, foolishy, though not at the time, I bought 2 copies of Jet Planes of the Third Reich for over £200 each just over a decade ago...now they are worth £50 each if you can get it! They have been superceded, by much better books.
Arthur