Seems no one has mentioned ebays proxy bidding system.
The high bidder may have bid 1500, we will never know.
If you don't set a proper reserve- there is always the
chance you will not find 2 bidders to fight it out.
However, if you set a proper reserve, and there are no
takers on that given day, you "live to fight again."
Many times I have seen an item sell for less than I
would pay but cash flow did not allow me to bid at
that very time...
-paul genaro
sidney ny
> Mark Agree wrote:
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > What confounds me, is the suspicion that the Campy
\r?\n> gears, having been sold
\r?\n> > alone might easily have gone up over $1000. Why
\r?\n> then do the high rolling
\r?\n> > bidders not attack an entire gruppo in one fell
\r?\n> swoop?
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Looking at past auctions on eBay, Cambio Corsa (two
\r?\n> shift rods & two
\r?\n> hubs is all) doesn't go for even half that,
\r?\n> especially rusty versions.
\r?\n> I think the emerging reality is that there is more
\r?\n> of this stuff (1940s)
\r?\n> than there are buyers to fight over it.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> The majority of the collectors I've met are looking
\r?\n> for 1970s and even
\r?\n> 1980s bikes and an old soldier from the 1940s while
\r?\n> interesting, is not
\r?\n> something they have been obsessing over trying to
\r?\n> find and possess.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Chuck Schmidt
\r?\n> South Pasadena, CA
\r?\n>
\r?\n> .