Marlith wrote:Never really understood private sales of items that might be desireable to any size market.
Kaskoid wrote:Looking to unload lots of old D&D from when I worked there in 70's. White-box set, 144 pg Dieties, Character Archaic, unopened modules first prints, hardback books from 2-4 printings, old Judges Guild stuff, empty brown box, extra old early small books in VG to mint cond., character record sheets, reference sheets, character records, orig. Rogues Gallery, more.Where is best market? e-Bay or you? or some other board?
faro wrote:Marlith wrote:Never really understood private sales of items that might be desireable to any size market.Because people are often willing to pay more to secure an item plus it cuts out on eBay charges and possibly PayPal charges, too.For example, I'd agreed a price on an oB3 and the seller was asked to back out of the deal. When it was resold on eBay the final amount of money in their pocket was $200 or so less than my original offer.
Marlith wrote:Given what they have been selling for the last few times I saw one that had to be a mighty fine offer then. I guess I only see myself willing to make those sorts of offers with people I have an established history with and/or have seen the item personally.
faro wrote:Marlith wrote:Given what they have been selling for the last few times I saw one that had to be a mighty fine offer then. I guess I only see myself willing to make those sorts of offers with people I have an established history with and/or have seen the item personally.Different approach, I guess.No, nothing like as much as they were selling for a few years ago (even more over-valued, then).I'd recently missed out on another three or four, including a couple to BIN attempts and was beginning to get frustrated so I made a somewhat overkill offer whilst another auction was going on (:oops:).For many of the popular items, it's safe to say there are people who'd pay that bit extra to pick up the deal.And what good is it having someone willing to pay $150 when the next highest bid in an eBay auction might be $90, say?
Marlith wrote:faro wrote:And what good is it having someone willing to pay $150 when the next highest bid in an eBay auction might be $90, say?I can see your point. Not sure if the $60 price difference is an accurate portrait of the market. If everyone else is getting out at $90 and someone does bid $150 I would suspect that in most cases the $150 was a I will have at any cost type bid and you can't guarntee that even in a private sale environment.
faro wrote:And what good is it having someone willing to pay $150 when the next highest bid in an eBay auction might be $90, say?
Marlith wrote:Hence the suggestion to adverstise your auction here if it an item of any sort of value and the use of pictures.
Lordan wrote:I would definitely ebay them. I'm sure you will be very pleased with the outcome.
Kaskoid wrote:Just what are the comparison points?
Kaskoid wrote:This is most likely the one they sent to TSR for "approval";