Posted by David Sherman on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 22:21:53 :
In Reply to: Re: Am I missing something??? posted by John/Florida on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 19:49:01 :
I'm not so sure. Most of his other auctions are electronic equipment. I know what most of that stuff is and his prices are not only very round numbers, but are very high numbers. I'd be amazed if more than one or two of those items sells. Some of his test equipment prices might be okay, though still on the high end, for instruments sold by a reputable dealer with a fresh calibration certificate and a full warrantee, but not on an as-is untested ebay basis.
Another strange thing is he has 163 things listed for sale right now, and yet he's only sold 77 things over the past 5 years, according to his feedbacks and how long he's been on ebay. It could be that he's just starting to ramp up his activity, but I doubt it. It could also be that he's one of way too many guys who got suckered into buying piles of stuff from Government Liquidation for way too much money and thinks he can turn around and sell it at a generous profit on ebay. If he's not a complete fraud, he's going to have a heck of an ebay bill for all these listing fees. I'd be astonished if more than 10% of his listed items sold.