Ebay Droppings Thread.

[Bushmiller]

I identify around four levels of buyers/sellers:

1. Does the rounds of clearing sales, garage sales, car boot sales, swap meets etc. and buys for a handfull of dollars.
A. Is looking for a good user
B. Hopes to resell at a modest profit on Ebay
C. Is a collector at some level

2. Sells on Ebay at modest prices either as user saws or as collectors. Buyers may refurbish and resell( may include sharpening)

3. Sells on Ebay at good prices but usually is at the better end of the market and the saws are ready to go either into a collection or destined to be users.

4. Sells on Ebay or through auction houses at hugely inflated prices. The sales are often typified by higher than usual shipping cost as there is also a handling charge factored in. It seems to me that these saws take a very long time to sell, but I have been told before that I am wrong in this. It is however my impression as I see the listing come up time and again. Buyer are either people with more money than sense or collectors chasing genuinely rare items.

Many people fall into more than one category.

Of course these two listings mentioned by Paul fall into the last category. I think we have to remember that just because something is listed at a price, it certainly does not mean it will realise that sum. Sometimes I watch these just to see how long they take to sell.

Just to give an example: Back in early April I put up a post (#2005 on page 134 of this thread) that was for a Disston No.43 Combination saw. While that saw was probably the most glamorous of the combination saws made by any of the manufacturers I maintained it was a long way off worth the US$2000 they were asking. It is still for sale, three months later, and the price is now down to US$800.. I think it could go for around US$400. Eventually!

Regards
Paul

[Sawdust Maker]

Paul

which four categories are you in?

[Bushmiller]

Nick

Rightfully I should be in the first if I had a commercial bone in my body. In practice I am in the second two and I would like to be inordinately successful in the the last one so I can make a fortune, retire and buy more saws.



Regards
Paul

[Simplicity]

Nick

Rightfully I should be in the first if I had a commercial bone in my body. In practice I am in the second two and I would like to be inordinately successful in the the last one so I can make a fortune, retire and buy more saws.



Regards
Paul

Good luck [emoji41]and you will need more container doors

[Bushmiller]

Don't all bid at once now ... Antique Henry Disston Rare Handsaw Dual Signature Model J T Toole Finger Hole | eBay

Paul

Not sure if you will have seen the development of this listing:

The price was reduced before the sale ended to US$1525. It didn't sell: No surprises there, but now the seller has tried a completely different tack.

He has relisted at US$2450 with a BIN price of US$3450. Nice work if you can get it.

Antique Rare D8 Collectors Dream Saw Henry Disston JT Toole Dual Signature Model | eBay

Regards
Paul

[Chief Tiff]

Must be pitching to the hipster or artisan crowds.

[D.W.]

The handle is unusual, but the rest of the saw looks like a Canadian made no 5.

(oops, I think I posted this in the wrong thread, and now I can't find where the post that I'm responding to came from).

[Chief Tiff]

This has GOT to be worth a prize of some sort...

This seller is flogging a genuine McConnell smoother; along with "possibly an incomplete second McConnel" (my paraphrasing). OK, to me anything more than $20 for one of those WW2 abominations is money that could have been better spent on something like support groups for gay Halal vegan butchers; but someone has actually copied one of those useless things! DELIBERATELY! It would be like counterfeiting a Philips screwdriver from a $2 shop; in the name of all that is holy WHY would anybody do such a thing???


I'm tempted to buy them only so they can be forever removed from circulation; a bit like those last remaining samples of smallpox bacteria held in the CDC. Just not as desirable.

[homesy135]

I'm tempted to buy them only so they can be forever removed from circulation

I've often thought this after viewing eBay listings!


Paul

[goodvibes]

This has GOT to be worth a prize of some sort...

This seller is flogging a genuine McConnell smoother; along with "possibly an incomplete second McConnel" (my paraphrasing). OK, to me anything more than $20 for one of those WW2 abominations is money that could have been better spent on something like support groups for gay Halal vegan butchers; but someone has actually copied one of those useless things! DELIBERATELY! It would be like counterfeiting a Philips screwdriver from a $2 shop; in the name of all that is holy WHY would anybody do such a thing???


I'm tempted to buy them only so they can be forever removed from circulation; a bit like those last remaining samples of smallpox bacteria held in the CDC. Just not as desirable.

You seem to miss the point of collectable value.

There are are plastic Barbie dolls out there changing hands for hundred, even thousands of dollars.

None of them leave any kind of decent finish on timber.

Or, more on topic, I once came into possession of a Russian No4 Planeski new in box which I got 200 bucks for. Because there are not many Minty ones for sale.

And it smoothed wood worse than a Barbie doll's bum.

[Simplicity]

This one seems a little on the high side.
But postage is free.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/371427913683

[IanW]

This one seems a little on the high side.
But postage is free.....

Some folks just have a bit of a problem with placing the decimal point, Matt.

[Simplicity]

Some folks just have a bit of a problem with placing the decimal point, Matt.

I early on in my live around 6 had the same issue
So I can relate

Cheers Matt

[Twisted Tenon]

I've been watching this for near on a year and still no one has snapped it up.

TT

[D.W.]

Not ebay, but etsy.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/5249914...=sr_gallery_29

A plane that costs $10 here in the states (sometimes harbor freight asks $15, but they provide coupons on a continuous basis).

There is a lot of this going on with craigslist and ebay these days (in the states) - people buy harbor freight junk and then try to sell it for 3 times the price, pretending that it's not harbor freight junk.