Ebay watchers

[Osi Osgood]

I'm highly amused when I will watch a buy it now option auction, and they'll send an offer, and often, it's incredibly small. Auction is 300.00 seller sends an offer for 295.00 dollars! Well, I'd better just jump on that RIGHT AWAY!! ( Note: sarcasm)

[Mitchell Dvoskin]

I never “watch” items that I intend to bid on or buy. I just set my snipe. I do watch items where I have a similar item and want to see what it sells for, or something that I think is priced too high and curious as to whether or not it actually sells.

[Steve Klare]

There are things worth watching: a few years ago there was a 16mm Star Wars that was caught in a bidding war. It started out with some minimum bid less than $100 and climbed up higher than a couple of my cars have cost. (-especially my earliest ones!)

-a couple of us watched it ending live: obviously it meant a great deal to at least two people, but to us the auction itself was pure entertainment: "Whoaaaa!!! It just passed what the mortgage costs! Now it's more than my paycheck!".

I can just imagine some film collector that just got caught up in the excitement of the thing and bid way too much.
-next day he's sitting across the kitchen table from his wife:
"Welll...You remember how we planned to take the kids...to Disney this winter?..."

[Mike Newell]

A film collector would have more sense just some idiot 🤪🤪🤪🤪who thinks they have bought the Holy Grail of memorabilia. Let’s hope they get burnt at next sale.

[Steve Klare]

I think the Memorabilia Crowd may have played a role here.

I remember years ago somebody in the old IMDB discussion boards had a Super-8 Steamboat Willie. They literally thought this thing had belonged to Walt Disney himself!

-I had to burst their bubble and say Derann was still printing them brand new!

It wasn't even vintage, just second-hand!

[Mike Newell]

Yep, Steve I had buyers like that on eBay. Look at the state of film posters.

[Osi Osgood]

I wonder if it was that guy who was attempting to sell an optical sound super 8 print of Steamboat Willie for 100.00 dollars on eBay? I found that quite amusing.

[Mitchell Dvoskin]

Around 20 years ago, a 35mm print of Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video turned up on eBay. Not the rehearsal footage from the feature but the actual music video film. The seller was a charity located in Paterson NJ, about 30 miles from my home. I contacted them and apparently Jackson donated it to them for use in a charity benefit show and never asked for it back. If figured it was worth about $400 at the time so I put in a snipe bid of $750. It actually sold for over $3,000. I forgot that I was bidding against not only film collectors but also Michael Jackson collectors. It seems there are people crazier than film collectors.

[Mark Silvester]

Perhaps on an auction item I can understand. but on a buy it now ?. My own thoughts . many are just nosey with nothing better to do. Sad in a way.

Not sad a all...people have always watched on Ebay..and you cant say they don't buy because some do..even if it is last minute.

Its the way it is on Ebay - if you don't like it perhaps privately advertise??

[Trevor Adams]

That's life Paul....;-)