At first i thought... "is there mind control in his completed auctions. cuz all i saw in this one was scratched NOS tank for way too much money
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but then i thought about his game:
If you leave a buy it now up there for long enough someone will most likely come along who needs that #$%* bad enough and needs it right now. Theres a british company that does this with guitars. they have a mutilated gibson ripper up for like $800 that stopped showing up in my favorite searches. He puts them up for the maximum number of days and then waits like deer hunter, and eventually someone makes a mistake and gives him their money. this is the real way to take advantage of ebay's environment, not by ripping people off on shipping and not disclosing faults. it takes patience though as most things that are worth doing, so you don't see it that often, so no your bike isnt worth that ten jillion dollars, but if you had the patience to part it out at ridiculous prices and just wait for that ten jillion in the form of hightened neccessity/impulse buyers you could get close.
As i side note, two years ago i got a camera job in japan for a month, but i had no camera i could get for a month- i borrow from my various employers equipment i need for other clients that don't know me so well
so i gladly overpaid someone to fast ship me a suitable camera. gotta spendmoney to make money and when time is a factor either through neccessity or compulsion i am one of those fools who will part with more money than i need to...however never more than i can afford. so it doesn't happen very often
wow i cant believe i just wrote that much about an ebay item thread, guess it just got me thinking. i can delete it if anyone gets tired of scrolling all the way trough it to get to the next post.
-KK
