[Coco] Wow... Just wow... eBay CoCo 3 auction

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 17 January 2014 15:39:38 Juan Castro did opine:

> Best. Wife. Evah. (Tell her I said so.)
> 
Plus one from here too.

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Derek <dml_68 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The one that was for $199.95 or BIN was my auction. Myself and family
> > have hit some hard times and it broke my heart to have to put it up
> > on e-bay, when Brian made the offer my wife saw it and she did not
> > know I had put it up on e-bay, after 23 years of marriage she knows
> > how much I enjoy the old computers and the Coco most of all so she
> > removed the auction and told me that we will be fine until our tax
> > refund gets here.
> > 
> > So that is why it was removed after Brian made the offer.
> > 
> > Derek
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thursday, January 16, 2014 6:37 PM, Mark McDougall <
> > msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > 
> > On 17/01/2014 12:01 PM, Brian Blake wrote:
> > > I offered him $56.00, fully expecting
> > > some sort of a negotiation. Well, the offer was declined and the
> > > auction removed from eBay... Interesting response...
> > 
> > I've long since given up trying to understand eBay vendor logic. I've
> > come to the conclusion that you simply can't understand it.
> > 
> > There's the guy that has been listing the same half-dozen or so
> > Vectrex games for about 2 years now (that I'm aware of), for $300
> > each, which never attract a single bid. They're mostly worth about
> > $50-$100 at best.
> > 
> > Then there's the sellers that list an item at a ridiculously high
> > price, and when it doesn't attract a single bid, re-list at a
> > *higher* starting bid. That's right, a *higher* starting bid!?!
> > 
> > Then there's the seller that listed a game at $25 (BIN), then
> > inexplicably re-listed at $50 just before I bought it. I enquired as
> > to why, and offered $25, but it was subsequently withdrawn as "no
> > longer available".
> > 
> > Of course, more than a few are out specifically to rip people off. One
> > seller listed a Neo Geo game for an absolute silly price (10x what it
> > was worth). Turns out that there's another game in the same series
> > which *could* conceivably fetch a price somewhere in that ballpark,
> > but this wasn't it. Given the game was Japanese, I could understand
> > there may be some confusion on the part of seller, and giving them
> > the benefit of the doubt, I politely informed them of this fact. Of
> > course, my 'advice' was ignored and the seller continued to re-list
> > the item at that price until they eventually gave up and I never saw
> > it listed again. The stupid thing is, anyone willing to invest that
> > type of money in a single game *knows* what's what and would *never*
> > mistakenly buy it. Stupid, ignorant, seller.
> > 
> > I could go on and on...
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > |              Mark McDougall                | "Electrical Engineers
> > |              do it
> > |  
> > |  <http://members.iinet.net.au/~msmcdoug>   |   with less
> > |  resistance!"
> > 
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Cheers, Gene
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