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

[Juan Castro]

Best. Wife. Evah. (Tell her I said so.)

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
>
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> 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 offered $25, but it was subsequently withdrawn as "no longer available".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,
>
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