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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 31, 2007 01:35 PM
Boy, i hear your pain!
I had a slew of truly rare super 8, features and otherwise on ebay and no bids, but a hell of a lot of watchers, getin me hopes up, (as we are hurting for cash), and nothing! Zilch.
So much of ebay is all about timing, sadly, and not about true value.
... and there's the good side of that too. I just bought (from one Jim Shrader, thank you, they arrived fine, and I'm sure Alan Riks package will arrive in mere days!), three Laurel and hardy silent shorts for just 9.99! (well, one is a crappy 200ft laurel and Hardy snippet from "A haunting We Will Go", but hey, worth one look!), and the optical sound feature for 11.00 as well ...
... so ebay does have it's perks!
All the best!
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted December 31, 2007 07:29 PM
Oooh I love to rant on this subject ....
A perfect example of the "watchers" problem, is a feature print of "Emperor of the North", (Lee marvin) I put it on once, had three people watching ...
No bids.
I was going to send it to Steve Osbourne, along with another feature, just to raise some extra credit with him, in case a juicy feature comes out of nowhere, but i thought I'd list it one more time.
When I listed it, i made sure to put on there, "Last time that this title will be listed." This time, six people were watching it ...
No bids.
What were these vultures expecting? I was just joking?
As promised, it wasn't listed again, and it went off to Steve Osbourne.
I really shouldn't be too hard, I guess. I have played the watching and waiting game myself, but honestly, if I see, "won't be listed again", if they don't have too high of a price on it, I'll bid on it, as I wouldn't want to miss out on it.
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Lee Mannering
Film God
Posts: 3216
From: The Projection Box
Registered: Nov 2006
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posted January 01, 2008 09:05 AM
It’s a funny old world isn’t it?
Only a year ago I was being named and shamed on this very forum as a buyer beware through ebay, yet since the strange attraction of some to have a go at someone who was at that time not even part of the forum and thus unable to defend himself I have in fact traded very successfully with a number of members here.
I have purchased and sold to many via ebay and as in all matters in our lives we do meet all sorts of folk, some good and bad. You will always find someone to have a poke at you if your name turns up enough, or if jealousy gets to play a part. But that’s just my fellings on the relationship between the Forum and ebay.
Ebay may well have done great things for 8mm as a whole. It has raised awareness that it still exists so much so it even has its own category now. But as far as buying and selling we all take a chance, even as sellers. For my part it has been good to make new film friends through ebay to the point where a few even come for a chat about film to our home, and we also visit them. Ebay then can be said to be more of a forum for film than this is perhaps in some respects and although we can come unstuck on ebay it has given us the chance to extend communication with other film enthusiasts which we may have never met before.
Yes I have mixed feelings for ebay, but on the whole it’s been good to buy and sell at auction door to door worldwide. You will always come across someone who wants to have a poke at you, but if you can live with that it will suit you.
Mark. Only recently I had one item listed with 145 people watching, but no bids. Seems some just want to be nosey and what sad lives they must lead with nothing better to do.
Having purchased from Mark he is one of the good guys, but it does make you wonder how much time people sit in front of this computer surfing and looking at ebay for the ultimate bargain.
Happy New Year and peace and best wishes to all.
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