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Marco Cortesi

think i will flog mine on ebay and buy another off dragon carp:D
 
You just cant believe the stupidity of some people! £50 for a reel being sold for £30! i think i must be in the wrong game!there is obviously a mountain of cash to be made off ebay!
 
What a chancer, was half expecting his ebay username to be "deltrotter123"! I very much doubt that the reel will sell at that price! More often than not, items sold on ebay find their true value. Lots of experts and collectors browse ebay and will only pay what it's worth. Plus, anybody who buys anything online without first doing a price comparison or google search is doing themselves a disservice.
 
Sam Pottage said:
I very much doubt that the reel will sell at that price!
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No, it's got three days left so it will most likely go up!

I am not really that surprised it’s the price it is, if you didn’t know it was from Dragon Carp and cost twenty quid less it is for all intents and purposes still a cheap pin!

What with this Spam and god knows what else being sold at silly prices on ebay it really does go to show there are a lot of tits buying over priced items.

Tom.
 
Sam Pottage said:
Ok, I take it back, it actually has bids on it!! What happened to frugality and common sense?
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A lot of people just want to win bids on e-bay. When I bought my Okumas from e-bay I was watching a lot of reels to get the right price. In just one week two second hand Okuma CPs sold for more than a "buy now" brand new one cost. Some people seem to get in a bidding frenzy which is obviously good news if you are a seller!
 
Sam Lloyd said:
doubt it was unwanted xmas present, most stuff he's sold is fishing tackle so he might be a trader
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I agree completely Sam, it's amazing how many tackle "dealers" get given centre pin reels as gifts! A bit like giving the guys at Mainline a sack of boilies for Christmas..
 
Then again, some people are 'check too late plonkers', like me :D

Yesterday I 'won' a small box of heat shrink tubing. It was going for a couple of quid when I first bid on it, but every time I placed my little bids, I was informed immediately that I had been outbid, untill it climbed to an earth shattering £3.25 :p

I know we are only talking tiny sums here, but the thing was, when I looked back on the guys 'other items for sale' area after the sale, he had loads of identical little boxes of tubing for sale...some of them with a 'buy now' price of £2.95 :D:D:D

What am I like :D

Cheers, Dave.
 
Alex Gowney said:
A lot of people just want to win bids on e-bay. When I bought my Okumas from e-bay I was watching a lot of reels to get the right price. In just one week two second hand Okuma CPs sold for more than a "buy now" brand new one cost. Some people seem to get in a bidding frenzy which is obviously good news if you are a seller!
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I read an online psychological study of ebay and it's final sale prices a short while back. What you have stated, and what most people already know, is true. The people that done this found that bidders are more likely to bid on something with a low starting price, then become "psychologically invovled", so to speak. It can then become more about simply "winning" the item, rather than aquiring the goods that they needed/wanted. Prices often end up far higher than other listings with buy it now options.

It's this reason why I always set a reasonably low reserve when selling stuff. And equally, when buying I use goofbay, set my upper bid limit then walk away. You do, of course, have to be somehwat philisophical with this as there will always be the time when you lose out on that item you really want. But in the long run...
 
I've not come across Goofbay, that looks useful. I use snip.pl for sniping, it costs about 8p for a successful win. I do the same as you, I work out my limit, set my snipe and then forget about it until after the auction (sometimes literally forget, and very surprised to receive an email a week later saying I've won something!). Sniping is not as much fun as bidding up, but much better for the wallet ... and the heart.

Sometimes I put in a low snipe for something just in case, and on rare occasions I get a bargain. But this month, I ended up winning a car that I didn't expect to get! Yes, really. I had been keeping an eye out for a car, but this was a speculative snipe on an auction that I expected for go for much higher, I didn't really check the car out beforehand as I didn't expect to win it so it could have ended in tears (don't try this at home, kids), but I ended up with an immaculate, well-equipped, low-mileage, Mazda 6 with full service history for about 70% of it's market value — and I'm very pleased with it. Plus it will consume a hell of a lot of tackle :)
 
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I sell a lot on ebay and you are definatly right about getting bidders involved start low to get more people involved from the start then watch them fight it out. Have watched 2 Marco Cortesi's go for over £50 recently!!
 
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