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 imabrit
 
posted on September 8, 2001 12:16:38 PM
I received a email about an upcoming book auction.

In it there is a first edition Book of Mormon offered up for sale.

I am positive though not 100% sure that this was the same one that was offered for sale on ebaY a few months ago.

That one if I recall went for about 45,000 dollars.This same volume is expected to bring between 50 and 80,000 dollars at there sale.

Would make the owner a nice profit within a few months.

An interesting example of how some items do bring more money off ebaY than on it.



 
 fountainhouse
 
posted on September 8, 2001 12:30:59 PM
Adrian,

Same scenario happens everyday. RL auction houses to B&M dealers to private collectors, and the circle goes on. It's all in the marketing and presentation.

Ancient manuscripts aside, there are still plenty of things that sell *better* on ebay than other venues.

The trick to staying successful is changing with the trends.

 
 kiara
 
posted on September 8, 2001 12:57:09 PM
Many items do much better off ebay. Remember that not everyone has a computer or shops on the internet.

I buy on ebay all the time and resell in my local area. Many items I will never put on ebay because of the competition yet they do quite well here.

imabrit, have you ever tried to market some of your items locally?




 
 MAH645
 
posted on September 8, 2001 04:43:47 PM
I do great with Leather goods at the Flea Market wouldn't think of giving them away on E-bay like a lot of Sellers do.

 
 dman3
 
posted on September 8, 2001 05:04:24 PM
I Have found that many time that items at Real auctions only bring 30 to 50 percent of what they predict the item will sell for.

its kind like makeing odds on the horses ...

But I agree with others who say many items will bring more in Flea markets, stores and RL auction, because there are many millions with out computers and most who do have computers have never even been to Ebay or ever bough or puchased anything online at any website.

There are many hunrdreds of thousand of Users on the IRC who rarely if ever use there webbrowser and many of them are still useing older computer with netscape version 1.1 cant even hardly veiw the web.

many also only use there computer for email and IRC chat or news groups as well there are thousands on AOL who have never been on the internet they believe AOL is the internet and they stay inside Email chat and instant messages never leaveing the BBS..




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