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Wampus Dragon wrote:
The Jujubee flapcat went for a bit higher than I thought it would… Thats a lot for a small flap kitty.
Good grief! 😮
Pam Thompson wrote:The person is new to ebay I think. I hope they understand that we list those little cats regularly.
If they don’t they soon will. But it’s good for Windstone!
Pam Thompson wrote:The person is new to ebay I think. I hope they understand that we list those little cats regularly.
That was my first thought also, but the winner has 280 eBay transactions. He/she might be new to Windstones but definitely not to eBay.
kitsunelady wrote:TnPhoeniX wrote:Ouch… were you intending to offend…? That’s like a realtor selling a house then saying it was an outhouse.
The auction description on ebay is for wooing the bidders. This is a place for discussion, and we value her honest opinion, as does Melody, I’m sure. Artists require honest feedback…and it would just be dead boring (like Serpentine) around here if everyone was just “Aww, that’s so beautiful!” over *everything*. I love this discussion! XD
So do I, m’lady. It’s true, beauty is in the eye of the beholder… & a rose by any other name will still smell just as sweet, & be just as much pain to grow. Also true are the descriptions within the Ebay listings to, what was the word? Oh yea… woo. I got woo’ed… many here also got woo’ed, not just from Ebay descriptions but also from words typed here in these… discussions. If one denotes a sense of distaste in that last word, you would not be far from wrong.
Hard line to draw, isn’t it. Opinions everywhere, wildcards in the woodworks that are indeed willing to pay sometimes unreasonable prices… we love what we love, right? & if we dislike something, excrement abounds. ‘wow, I can’t believe that went for that much!’ & so on. We can be a community that respects each others’ opinions, & can turn on each other in a heartbeat if so desired.
Ebay, great example. Huge actually, a perfect example of financial democracy gone exuberantly wrong. As advertisements go, items sell & interest is gained, true; but at what cost when there are those whose purpose is to bump up the prices so the winners pay bigtime. It happens… for example, check out recent Ebay items from here – not the winners but those that kept bidding & bidding… click their protected name’s feedback, & you see everything they’ve bid on before. Not the items themselves, but what they did. How can 1 person w/ a feedback of 7 have so many bid retractions?? & right down the list, dragon dragon dragon dragon dragon… collectors sure, not good bidders or something more? I’m not accusing, I’m venting. Voicing opinion. 1 voice amidst the chaos, but I’m not the only one it’s happened to I bet.
All that now being said, & my most sincere apologies if I offended anyone, from the avid collector to the creator herself. I love these dragons. I love the sense of togetherness this forum provides. We become like a family… & the best of families out there differ. Argue, bicker, moan & complain. It’s what they do, & they do it well.
Ah! I’m gone for a few days and I miss so much!
Who-LEE-cow! JuJubee is a cute name and pretty kitty but Wowzah! O.O Just consider this-her price went that high because at least TWO people were willing to pay that. The next highest bid was indeed $600 so that person was willing to pay $600 for her.And another note: That new mouse wizard!! *starts drooling* so awesome! He looks evil 👿 mwahhaah! I need him to keep my Grimalkin and bad cat candle lamp in line 😆
TanPhoenix:
For the record, we have had VERY few bid retractions. Lately they have been from one person, a genuine collector, and primarily the retractions are on max bids that were not yet reached anyway 🙂 So it appears that they are just rethinking how much they really want to pay for something in the end. The “old days” when we had fake bidders deliberately bidding up items to hugely inflated prices, seem to be gone. At least, I haven’t encountered it at all in the past two years of doing ebay stuff. Sometimes what seems like bid inflating is just an inexperienced buyer who keeps increasing their max bid, OR it is someone who keeps bidding over the automatic bids of someone else.If ebay wanted to be REALLY fair though, they would work like penny auctions, where each bid increases the end time. For example, bid in the last 10 seconds and the end time increased 30 seconds. There would be no more sniping, for those of you that hate that, but on the other hand, items would more frequently sell for the max amount everyone is willing to pay (because whenever you bid you give everyone else ample time to outbid you if they want), so prices would be much higher. Great for sellers, but not so great for buyers.
Pam Thompson wrote:If ebay wanted to be REALLY fair though, they would work like penny auctions, where each bid increases the end time. For example, bid in the last 10 seconds and the end time increased 30 seconds. There would be no more sniping, for those of you that hate that, but on the other hand, items would more frequently sell for the max amount everyone is willing to pay (because whenever you bid you give everyone else ample time to outbid you if they want), so prices would be much higher. Great for sellers, but not so great for buyers.
Would it make a big difference? I guess I’m thinking of plenty of auctions where bidders can’t be around when it closes. Maybe for the really ‘hot’ items… 😕
It would make a difference in auctions were a bidder lost because he/she didn’t have a chance to respond, or didn’t have enough time to decide if they wanted to keep going. They would have 30 more seconds to decide “will I really be ok with losing this, or do I want to bid just a few dollars more and possibility win?”.
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