some ebay bidders are crazy

If he wants a good price for it then why start it at 99p and put a very high reserve on it? Sure some 99p stuff goes for a fortune but if you want a high price at least start somewhere near the reserve thats also somewhere near the true value.
 
but if you want a high price at least start somewhere near the reserve thats also somewhere near the true value.
The appeal of auction sites like ebay is they give the buyer the illusion they are getting a bargain. They may, or they may not, but they don't want to be told what its value is in the way a shop would decide.
It's one thing to put a value of £30 on a camera that'll go topside of £100 any day of the week, it's quite another to put the same value on one that might make £50+, then again it may struggle to hit £25. Sellers who put high reserves and big starting bids risk the item going through unsold, which is their prerogative of course. Very rarely does a valuable camera with a entry of 99p stay at that level.

It's all a bit of a game.
 
IIRC the minimum reserve on ebay is £50 so you won't get it for less than that amount regardless of the low bids.
 
Surely though with that flash the guy must have got the message that people are not willing to pay £50+ when there were 10 bids on it and it ended without selling at a lowly £20.
 
Sam, not sure; but they go for 50+; in fact if I decide to expand my Minolta SLR, I'll be willing to pay that
 
Some not really interesting news, but I'm excited.
Just won an Olympus Trip 35 on ebay for £16, looks in very good nick but who knows until it's in my hot little hands....will it ever end? :help:

Don't get excited till you've opened the box and put a film through - too many rogues about. Hope yours is a good'un.
Seen them go for fifty nicker so £16 is a steal.
 
***too many rogues about***

See em at the boot sale for £1-£3 for different "trips", but something at the back of my memory, from something a member said "about what to check", puts me off buying one as apparently the optics are very good, so I bought a very good mountain bike for my wife for £5 instead.
 
Cool - so she can get to the offie for you faster and on her own now then :D

Next purchase, basket :naughty:
 
My wife is too snobbish to go to boot sales, but doesn't mind the bargains I bring home.
 
Mine too, finally got her to one about 2 months ago ... she had to go back to the car three times in an hour 'cos she had too much to carry :eek:
 
Don't get excited till you've opened the box and put a film through - too many rogues about. Hope yours is a good'un.
Seen them go for fifty nicker so £16 is a steal.

Well, I've opened the box and it looks great. Came with a roll of Superia so I'll run that through and report back.
Going to a funeral today,don't think they would be impressed with any photography!
Incidentally, this being my first roll of colour film for many years, would it be better to just have them developed and then scan them to my pc or have contacts made?
 
Well, I've opened the box and it looks great. Came with a roll of Superia so I'll run that through and report back.
Going to a funeral today,don't think they would be impressed with any photography!
Incidentally, this being my first roll of colour film for many years, would it be better to just have them developed and then scan them to my pc or have contacts made?

Tesco's for a test film like that. Process and CD for £1.98, more if you want prints but I never bother.
 
I only use them for cheap films, you have to accept that you will have scratches and dust on the negs if tesco process them.

Tesco just doubled their price for film to CD, just who do they think they are with such mediocre quality.:cuckoo:
 
Tesco just doubled their price for film to CD, just who do they think they are with such mediocre quality.:cuckoo:

How much did they charge? I am hoping to switch to developing my own now but I still have a load of Kodak 400ISO C41 B&W film left.
 
How much did they charge? I am hoping to switch to developing my own now but I still have a load of Kodak 400ISO C41 B&W film left.

Old price was .97p now 1.97p, so more than double plus the developing cost of .99p. I used them on cheap experimental stuff, but now its nearly £3.00 may as well pay the extra and have it done properly.
 
Old price was .97p now 1.97p, so more than double plus the developing cost of .99p. I used them on cheap experimental stuff, but now its nearly £3.00 may as well pay the extra and have it done properly.

Well I couldn't see how Tesco could make much profit only charging dev and scan to CD for £1.98, erm but double well that's the way rip-off UK is going in that companies don't increase near inflation but increase what they think the market will stand or what they can get away with.
 
in that companies don't increase near inflation but increase what they think the market will stand or what they can get away with.

Isn't that the whole basis of free market pricing though. What has inflation got to do with pricing? And why should this be rip off? :)

If Tesco has priced themselves higher, they will lose this slice of business; if not, clearly there are many who are happy with that price.

BTW: I used Tesco a few times; and the quality was so inconsistent that I gave up using them at any price, so no sympathies for them there.
 
Another thing. Why do people open a bid £10 less then the BIN and run the risk of losing the item for the sake of a tenner? Why don; they just hit BIN?

Human nature to want it for less, a guy listed a Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8 on here a couple of weeks ago for £500 which was a steal but somebody still offered £475 and lost it :shrug: to me :D
 
Human nature to want it for less, a guy listed a Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8 on here a couple of weeks ago for £500 which was a steal but somebody still offered £475 and lost it :shrug: to me :D

You only got it cos you saw it before me............:bang:


:lol:
 
Well I couldn't see how Tesco could make much profit only charging dev and scan to CD for £1.98, erm but double well that's the way rip-off UK is going in that companies don't increase near inflation but increase what they think the market will stand or what they can get away with.

It,s not the profit or loss on this service that is important, when I use Tesco it,s for the price, when level of quality is not that much of a concern and it is convenient and when I am in store I buy my Cigs, papers, milk and any other items that are needed outside my normal weekly shop, often coming away having spent £15-£20, that spend will now be lost to Tesco all for the sake of them trying to pick an extra £1.00 out of my pocket.
 
I recently enquired about film processing at Tesco headquarters. The nearest supermarket that still offered it was some distance away and their processor was broken with no date supplied as to when it would be fixed.
Reading between the lines it seems not to be a priority. I went to Asda instead.
 
Hope this works for me. Never sold on ebay before and a bit uncertain. Got a Nikon 18-200 VR to sell and I`m wondering - put a reserve? Buy it now? Just start at 99p and get a bidding war. I`m looking for as near to £350 + psoatge as I can get but fearful there might be no bidders and it goes too cheap - what`s the best route?
 
if your auction ends on next saturday/sunday night you should be al right. but the flippin fleabay takes around 10% of the sales all together, so maybe - hold your horses for now. hang around in TP , post some more and advertise it here .
 
***Isn't that the whole basis of free market pricing though. What has inflation got to do with pricing? And why should this be rip off?**

erm so your wages /salary has doubled then to pay for all these increases...and it's nearly everything going up well over inflation that's making us poorer when wages/salary is held back......and many things you are forced to pay no matter how the price is hiked e.g. water, gas, electricty.
 
***Isn't that the whole basis of free market pricing though. What has inflation got to do with pricing? And why should this be rip off?**

erm so your wages /salary has doubled then to pay for all these increases...and it's nearly everything going up well over inflation that's making us poorer when wages/salary is held back......and many things you are forced to pay no matter how the price is hiked e.g. water, gas, electricty.


Not wishing to turn this into an economic debate Brian, if my salaries rise lower than inflation, or if prices of some stuff rises above inflation, I simply will not be able to afford many things in life. Indeed, I still cant afford many things in life - but thats hardly the argument for forcing an inflation based pricing on commodities that I want. :) ( water gas electricity is only relevant upto a point, they are necessary only upto so much - and for that reason such prices are either controlled or Govt offers subsidy to certain section of the population). But comparing that to film development cost is not right, is it?

As to people getting poorer relative to previous years, its an inevitable consequence of the last 10 years profilgacy. Its merely the market correcting itself; and quicker it corrects, the better.

Thats the beauty of free market - prices are always decided by the market in the end. But every supplier is responsible to set his own price irrespective of any inflationary factors, and live with the consequence. Thats not a rip off.
 
Not wishing to turn this into an economic debate Brian, if my salaries rise lower than inflation, or if prices of some stuff rises above inflation, I simply will not be able to afford many things in life. Indeed, I still cant afford many things in life - but thats hardly the argument for forcing an inflation based pricing on commodities that I want. :) ( water gas electricity is only relevant upto a point, they are necessary only upto so much - and for that reason such prices are either controlled or Govt offers subsidy to certain section of the population). But comparing that to film development cost is not right, is it?

As to people getting poorer relative to previous years, its an inevitable consequence of the last 10 years profilgacy. Its merely the market correcting itself; and quicker it corrects, the better.

Thats the beauty of free market - prices are always decided by the market in the end. But every supplier is responsible to set his own price irrespective of any inflationary factors, and live with the consequence. Thats not a rip off.

Well a last word with a suggestion that you have a rethink on how..... the EU is ripping us off, inc common agriculture policy, also speculators from tea to the money exchange rate, our government, lawyers, ridiculous compensation awards that indirectly come back to joe public to pay for etc etc etc and even down to personal things like a medical examination for driving that has gone up in 3 years from £75 to £100.
 
***Isn't that the whole basis of free market pricing though. What has inflation got to do with pricing? And why should this be rip off?**

erm so your wages /salary has doubled then to pay for all these increases...and it's nearly everything going up well over inflation


That's because house prices, which have fallen/not increased are included in the calculations, thereby masking the true rate of inflation...
 
To get back to the original! I do hope I get a couple of crazies as I have a lens expiring on Sunday on there. I have always done well in the past. I think people do get to trust your feedback.
Fingers crossed.
 
Thing is that you see something go at a good price then the week afterwards it goes for a third more then back to the cheaper price. The prices are all over the place!
 
Yes that's quite right. I was talking to a guy at a conventional auction house who sells watches on eBay, he was saying he has had a watch expire on eBay without a bid. Week later he re-listed it and got a good price! Just depends who's watching.
 
Yes that's quite right. I was talking to a guy at a conventional auction house who sells watches on eBay, he was saying he has had a watch expire on eBay without a bid. Week later he re-listed it and got a good price! Just depends who's watching.


I hope that happens to my listed hand knitted booties for toddlers (I didn't knit them) :nuts: . I NEED MONEY - here I said it. maybe that will help me ! :lol:
 
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