Bargains on ebay?

[Macca]

That's fine if you are offering a service on top (refurbing etc) or even if you are buying at a below average price and selling at the high end of average - you're making something out of your ability to find under-priced items or getting lucky with auctions or being rewarded from taking risks on dodgy looking auctions that others stay away from, or bothering to pick up in person on collection only items. In any of those, you are changing the same from one that people don't want, to one that they do want (have confidence in etc).

That's not what I was talking about and I don't think Mr Kipling was either.

What I was talking about - and this applies to any other commodity or resource - is making something artificially scarce in order to then falsely convince people that they MUST spend loads in order to obtain that item. Or to artificially raise the price so that there is price propoganda through repetition (you only ever see the over-priced item and then 'learn' that it's value is the high one through repetition).

That is akin to someone placing a dam upstream of a river and telling the villagers downstream they must pay more for their now scarce water and have it delivered by tanker from the resevoir created behind the dam..

Maybe you feel that is just a 'free market' doing its job?

I just have to respond to this so sorry all -

Nat you are confusing greed with stupidity. I could put my house up for sale for £100K if I wanted to. I'd never sell it at that price but it is my right to ask that price if I want to. If someone comes along and buys it at that price despite being able to get a similar one for half that amount then more fool them. That one sale will not drive up the price of the other similar houses one jot.

Your dam analogy is essentlally either hoarding or creating a monopoly - two processes that most free markets legislate against, as they make markets less free - not more free. The idea that a free market economy means a complete free-for all is a nonsense expounded by people who do not have a grasp of economic theory or have a more sinister agenda.

Okay - as you were...

[MartinT]

Ok chaps - and I know I've been part of this too - let's keep this thread for eBay now and by all means start another thread on the free market if anyone feels so inclined.

[Mr Kipling]

Thanks Lawrence. I won't get to see the video until Monday.

I was going to respond, but people are getting bored. I will just say that I discovered eBay 2 1/2 years ago and when I saw the prices that some items were priced at I was somewhat STAGGERED. If a vintage item now has a value of £x, fair enough. What aggravates (me) are the instances of what I can only describe as blatant opportunist greed. Others see it otherwise. Fair enough.

[Jonboy]

Nice amp but at a price and you have still got to find another.

Dynatron

[Jonboy]

And another but this time a pair

RCA KT66's

[BTH K10A]

Nice amp but at a price and you have still got to find another.

Dynatron

Here's the other one Jon

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dynatron-R...item3a7cfac2a7

£3k for a pair is on par with Leak TL12.1's though

[walpurgis]

A Goldring G800, half an hour to go and the bidding's up to £46!

You'd have to f***ing nuts to pay more than a fiver. They just aren't very good, I've owned loads of them and would sooner have a Shure 75 series MM and even they aren't particularly brilliant either.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Goldring-G...item20cdf24a59

[Beechwoods]

Nice amp but at a price and you have still got to find another.
Dynatron

Hmm, it describes it as stunning, yet states that 'due the age of this type of equipment it's being. "Sold as seen with no refunds or returns"'.

£1500 for what could be DOA? Are the bits worth that much?

[Marco]

A Goldring G800, half an hour to go and the bidding's up to £46!

You'd have to f***ing nuts to pay more than a fiver. They just aren't very good

Sorry, Geoff, I completely disagree! Maybe you were using it on the wrong arm and with a phono stage that didn't sufficiently optimise its strengths? Do you think I'd entertain using one in a system like mine if it weren't any good?

Get Dom, from NWA, to re-tip a G800 and/or fit a high-quality cantilever, and you've got a high-end audiophile bargain, which is much better than ANY Shure, save perhaps an M3D, unless you prefer the rather soulless and 'toppy' sound of most modern MM cartridges!

Marco.

[The Black Adder]

A Goldring G800, half an hour to go and the bidding's up to £46!

You'd have to f***ing nuts to pay more than a fiver. They just aren't very good, I've owned loads of them and would sooner have a Shure 75 series MM and even they aren't particularly brilliant either.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Goldring-G...item20cdf24a59

Sorry mate... Well wrong there... as Marco said, with a re-tip ...These carts ROCK.

£46...! Looks like the prices are nudging up on these