Buzzetta

Keep in mind that you can only make an offer to a potential buyer once. So if you make an offer to those watching your item and you have 14 people watching then 14 offers go out. However next week if you decide to offer something lower after seeing 17 people watching then only three offers are going out. I am currently holding off on making any offers until the next eBay bucks incentive is offered across the site to really give the buyers something to consider.

I think there is a big difference between selling something through auction and consigning it through a dealer. I have no problem with anyone selling something at auction. In many cases you will still get more than if you sell your collection directly to a dealer. Consignment? I don't trust it as I have personally seen some shadiness. However consignment, as much as I do not personally trust it or would ever do it, is preferable to direct sale to a dealer.

Thought of you actually while in Target the other day. I know they are not in scale... I know they are not Marvel... But damn... the McFarlane Jim Lee Batman figure hits all the bells and whistles for me. Really nice figure. I left him. Trying to be good this year.

Fees are about the same on eBay - PayPal is 3%. For 3% I like to make sure the numbers are right where they should be. I have a trust issue on consignment after knowing that someone was once skimming off the top. If they told you the book sold for $1900 and they were to receive 10%, it was disheartening to find out that they really sold the book for the full $2000, pocketed $100 and then wanted their 10%. Do it yourself. I stand behind that. For you maybe it works... if it works... it works. For me... do it yourself and when people raise the subject, I am always going to advise them to do the same. Sell it yourself. Cut out the middle man at all costs.

I was blocked before I was even accepted on the other account. Guess I should not have used 'Andrew" as the first name and reapplied the day I was booted. oh well.

Apparently 'entitled' is the new trigger word. I just got thrown out of the Long Island Authentic Reviews of Business Group on Facebook which is pretty impressive considering that there are 28k members. An individual was bashing a business I sometimes frequent because they did not want to honor her cell phone photo of the coupon they had recently offered. Many were trying to explain to them that businesses never honor those one and done coupons that they send in the mail to a person's residence. (Says so on the coupon.) The individual was getting nasty with everyone for their criticism. I, stooooooooopidly, offered my two cents. Said that they should pay attention that so many people are pointing out they were wrong and then I said the 'trigger' word... that their entitlement was astounding that they thought they should be above the rules for everyone else. I didn't know that they were an administrator of the group. Poof and blocked. They did not like the word entitlement. So... I have another facebook account now just so I can get recommendations and ideas about local businesses. Joined up again this week.

Follow me around for a day. I will show you very busy. I find the time to list a few here and a few there. Once it is listed, it is up until I pull it down. It does not take much effort to box something up when it sells. Last year, eBay basically paid for my complete bath remodel. Some people like to sleep while they are on their hour commute into Manhattan. I wanted to pay for my bathroom.

That's fair. But even with what he is doing... to me it is all enveloped under personal laziness. Whoever consigns with him is paying the eBay fee as well as Gabe's fee.

I don't you can offer that on eBay. In her case I am not looking to troll her. I am looking to make sure that I do not do business with her. I have zero patience for her entitlement.

Not really... I see it all the time. I experienced it again after a dealer reached out to buy everything that I was offering in a listing. He told me what his bottom line was and what his best offer was. Since I declined, I already sold some of the items equating to what his offer was on my own and have plenty left over to make more.* I would never sell to a dealer at this point. Not while my fingers and eyes work in order to operate a computer. *Edit... the remaining pieces are the more valuable and more expensive items where even if I lower my ask on those I still make a lot more than I was offered by a dealer.

Noooo Because that would have allowed her to initiate contact again if she was watching the item. So what I did was end it and then completely create it in a new listing.... not a simple relist. Screw her.

Because some people are lazy. I say it all the time. Why do ANY of you consign with a dealer? Why do ANY of you sell or trade your books to a dealer? You don't want to deal with it and you want instant money. Sell your own stuff.

As a seller I have seen it work from time to time so it is worth it to me to send an offer out. It tends to work with items that have a large number of watchers as the potential buyers are well aware of the competition. If I send out an offer I do not negotiate any further though. It is what it is. As a buyer though, I have jumped on a few of them.

I would like to believe that they just are still wrapped around poor habits like that lady that was giving the press conference about precautions and then in the middle of it put her hand to her mouth. Let's be honest, for some people right now this is the first they are paying attention to washing their own hands.

The last movie I saw in the theaters was Rise of Skywalker... never saw Joker in the theaters and am waiting for it to pop up somewhere for free. I was REALLY looking forward to seeing Bond in the theater as well as Mulan and Greyhound. They delayed Bond... but Mulan and Greyhound are apparently good to go. Unfortunately I am not. Every day that I am 'not' getting sick is a good day. You see, taking an overcrowded train and then the subway every day I encounter and see a lot. You can tell people all day long with words, signs, commercials, press conferences and everything else to cover their mouth when they sneeze or cough or to have basic self awareness as it is best to conduct themselves during this. They aren't doing it. Yesterday, someone sneezed right into the open air yesterday with no regard to covering their mouth. They were standing up and checking their phone with one hand while holding the passenger bar with the other. You cannot suddenly teach good manners even in times of crisis. So, no... I will not be rolling the dice and sitting next to strangers for two hour stretches right now.

What did I learn at Costco today? When you are near the appliance section you can stream music from your phone to the appliances over bluetooth. Music was playing from the fridge the entire time that I was in checkout. Did a studio version of Franlin's Tower and live version of Phish' Back on the Train from the 12/28/18 show...

Won't work for me... I even did an independent search and everything is regionally restricted.

I am the spy. Don't tell anyone though. I want it to be a big surprise when I make my heel turn.

And now it's going to California.

Oooooohhhh what happened there? I was thinking of listing one of my copies.

Buyer "located in the United States" just purchased something that will be going out using the Global Shipping Program. This should be interesting.

sell them... then you know you got the most you could out of them. A dealer recently reached out to me to buy something all at once that I had put out for sale on a FB group offering me $1200 of my ask of $1765. I declined and within an hour I sold about a fourth of what I offered at full ask. $400 down. I’m in negotiations right now at $500, also at full ask. Sometimes when it comes to certain things you cannot do better than selling it yourself.

Ehhh.... that's one way to look at it... I disagree with this stance on it.

Some interesting results to report on this. I did a Facebook claim sale for GI Joes... this is what was strange. I lowered the figures that I had originally placed on eBay by 10% in the FB thread and some sold. There were plenty of new figures that I had never offered before. I offered them at around 10-15% less than the average actualized eBay sale. Except for one figure they sat. As the claim sale wound down, I placed those figures back up on eBay at around 10% over the average sale price. A bunch of things instantly sold. This afternoon I posted a bunch of Lego sets on a Lego FB group. I sold four sets at eBay prices over the FB group. That was great as I did not have to pay any fees to anyone. There are positives and negatives between FB and eBay. eBay affords greater exposure whereas Facebook has a limited exposure but you can afford to lower prices due to no fees. As an aside, there are a few things that I believe I should sell. If someone wants to pay an insane price for something that even I cannot make sense of, then they are more than welcome to hand me their money.

I recently heard that the majority of his sketches are all lightboxed - there was a facebook post where someone found the original artwork behind the cover of a blank comic he was supposed to press for Neal after Neal's crew dropped the book.