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I paid $270 for my Emerald Riser in mint condition. One’s being offered bin from bt right now for $350. Emerald is the rarest and most expensive color for Risers. I imagine the crystals are replaceable, so you got a good deal.
Wow! I’ll have to go back and see if the other one is still there. It’s the only place that I’ve found that can still get the emerald color. I didn’t realize they were so expensive now.
Phoenix wrote:Wow! I’ll have to go back and see if the other one is still there. It’s the only place that I’ve found that can still get the emerald color. I didn’t realize they were so expensive now.
If they do….and they are cheap… and you decide you don’t want ’em…. think of meeeeeee XD
Of course! You are always on my mind!
I’ll post the list of what they have when I get back.
DH and I are going to a timeshare thing tomorrow so we can get a free trip to Hawaii. Sounds silly, but hey free vacation and all for 90 minutes of our time 😆
We’ll stop by the shop after and be home in time for Superbowl! I love the commercials! I want to send a picture of my pony to the Bud people so they can use him in a commercial. I know they would love to since he looks like a miniature clydsdale with blue eyes!
OK, rambling. What am I doing up so late? Hmmm. What did I do with my Pepsi…Phoenix wrote:Wow! I’ll have to go back and see if the other one is still there. It’s the only place that I’ve found that can still get the emerald color. I didn’t realize they were so expensive now.
They had two emerald Risers? Cool store!
Yep. But that was before Christmas. Hearing what you just told me about the price, I’d be surprised if they still have the other one. I’ll check anyway.
I paid $263 for my Emerald Riser. I would have loved to have just paid $149, broken crystals or not.
What irks me beyond reasoning is when I know a bidder already has that item and keeps bidding to win over me anyway. Case in point…I was eyeing a set of Tria slightly used markers that was at $150, which costs normally $300 as a list price. I was also watching the pices on similar auctions and one was a full set of markers for $1,000…which is the standard list price for them. It’s a full set…well over 200 markers…probably 300, I forget the exact total. My auction had 60 markers. The same person bidding against me bought the full set of markers (which had been a Buy It Now) so I figured they’d leave me to bid and win the used set, now that they have every color and brand new. But no…they outbid me for the 60 used markers. I jumped onto another used marker auction of Trias and tried to bid on that…and again that same bidder stepped in and I just left the auctions…forget about it, won’t even try. I never saw who won that one.
I too don’t want to bid against forum members and normally won’t…I’m just sayng, I’d like to be outbid by even $5 or something…not always just by $1, and not by somebody who’d constantly bidding on the same things they already won. Luckily, even though I didn’t win the markers, I put the money towards more PYOs.I see what you are saying. I have that happen so many times, I expect it. If I want something badly, I just put in a rediculously high amount. Sure you run the risk of someone doing the same, but if you want it bad enough…
I wanted to add that I see a lot of forum members saying they won’t bid if another is bidding, but isn’t that what Ebay is all about? I would hate to be a seller getting a low price just because two people are in the same forum.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s says a lot of the type of people we have in this community, but a lot of the stuff you guys bid on is put up by forum members.I will bid against another forum member if I want the item bad enough. If it’s something I’m considering and I see a familiar name, meh – I’ll think about it and probably let it go.
As far as being outbid by $1 goes, the bid on items only goes up by certain increments. If there are only two people bidding back and forth, the winning bidder is only going to win by the bid increment. If it’s a dollar, then it’s one dollar.
I feel the same way sometimes, but that’s how the system works. I got outbid for something I really really wanted by $2. I was upset for a while, but realized that was the bid increment. Oh, well. I tried and didn’t get it. I don’t know if I’d have gone much higher anyway. So be it.
Just put up the max you are willing to pay. If you get outbid, then its because you WONT pay ANY more than that for the item. That way, if it goes for a dollar more, its ok, cuz you weren’t going to pay anymore than that anyway.
Also, I bid on Windstones that I already have all the time. I want to keep the value of the item up. If a male dragon goes for $50, then its worth $50. People are gonna see that and only pay $50. When I sell mine, I will only get $50. There is no way I will ever let anything go for alot less than its worth. It brings the value of all our collections down.
In the case of a PYO on ebay I will bid against forum members…but generally speaking on production stuff, unless i really MUST HAVE IT and do have the funds, I won’t bid.
As for selling PYOs, I start the item at the original price I paid for the PYO. I know I probably should start higher to cover for materials but I figure my item will sell for at least $50, so that covers my paints. Everything else will be profit and money I can use towards bills and more PYOs. This is why I kinda stopped selling commissions on Ebay…since people seem to want to bid more on something already created rather than a custom job.
You have to remember though, when you are outbid by $1.00 it doesn’t mean that the other ebayer’s high bid was only $1.00 more than your own… It’s just that ebay will only register the amount necessary to outbid the previous bidder. The other guy’s high bid might have been $100.00 higher than your own, you would still have been outbid by only $1.00.
I had an incident once, where a guy didn’t read my auction terribly well, and bid $100 on a very broken computer. He thought he could fix it, when the auction text made it pretty clear it was totally unfixable, I was basically selling a doorstop. I guess everybody else read it, because nobody else bid, so his actual winning bid was $0.99.
But when he got the computer, and found out that it was totally hopeless, he COMPLETELY flipped out at me, because he had “bid $100,” expecting this to actually be valuable! It’s really weird the way some people think… He was upset because he’d been willing to risk $100 on this, and then it turned out to be worth the $1 he actually paid.
(He was my ex, and there’s a huge long story behind it other than that, but that’s the short version.)
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