MShipley88 wrote:Given that many of you are sellers as well as collectors....How do EBay store owners come up with their prices? Do you have a formula in mind? A judgement of what the market will bear?Do some store owners price their items not to sell? (Which sounds dumb, but maybe they want to keep their items unless they are going for a certain markup.)For example, consider the EBay listing here:http://cgi.ebay.com/STORMBRINGER-YOUNG- ... dZViewItemHigh Quality Comics knows that this booklet is only part of a boxed set. (I have asked them if it is a set or just a booklet.) They also have to know that full boxed sets sell for as low as a quarter of their asking price, and that this booklet is not particularly rare or desireable by itself. (Even a collector needing to complete his own set could find this booklet for much less.) What is High Quality Comics thinking?Given that EBay provides a list of all products of a certain type, and that it is therefore possible to compare all similar products side-by-side, why do some sellers persist in their pricing and/or marketing decisions? Even a totally new EBay shopper, even one with limited mental capactity, would be capable of looking at side-by-side listings and seeing that one was less than the other. Right?Even a new seller, who just discovered EBay, would be capable of elementary price research. Right?What gives? What do you think people out there are thinking?Mark
MShipley88 wrote:Given that many of you are sellers as well as collectors....How do EBay store owners come up with their prices? Do you have a formula in mind? A judgement of what the market will bear?
MShipley88 wrote: Of the full-time store owners, I do understand a professional with astronomical prices. For instance, a store like Valhalla Games, over in Australia, is pricing things out of sight on the off chance that someone will be suckered. If they make one $2000 sale for a re-shrinked copy of B-2, they have made their month.
Beyondthebreach wrote:I've heard similar sentiments voiced a couple of times . . . I think you guys are giving them too much credit. I don't suspect that a brand new ebay store owner who has only earned 4 feedbacks in two months (two of them for pajamas) qualifies as an insightful business owner who is simply putting up a storefront on the "off-chance" that someone buys one item . . .Please . . . if your business is going to be helped by a one measly sale then you are in deep trouble already. The $1,000 items will NEVER sell. NEVER. The ebay store fees are more than they're making. Two weeks . . . no sales.More likely they are just clueless. I bet they thought this stuff would actually sell. (P.S. NEVER )
mbassoc2003 wrote:No change. I absorb it into my proffits.That is actually the second price hike this year in the UK. I assume the same applies to the US.