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Title: NIB SIIG MiniTouch with blue Montereys BIN $159 shipped
Post by: bootstrap on Mon, 30 April 2012, 05:02:35

SIIG MinTouch with blue Montereys on eBay: http://goo.gl/AnOMO

Some people are looking for this keyboard. But at $159... :shocked:

Title: NIB SIIG MiniTouch with blue Montereys BIN $159 shipped
Post by: bootstrap on Wed, 02 May 2012, 04:54:36

LOL the seller has lowered his BIN price to $139.

Title: NIB SIIG MiniTouch with blue Montereys BIN $159 shipped
Post by: fohat.digs on Wed, 02 May 2012, 07:30:30

It was $149 yesterday.

Personally, I would rather see a "Buy-It-Now" start very high and step down incrementally until it sells, than agonize through an auction.

As a buyer, I like a "sure thing" and if the price is too high, I simply don't buy.

As a seller, I think that this technique finds higher prices, more consistently, than auctions do.

And, for a seller, there is not that danger of having to let it go too cheap because of a lack of bids.

But, as a buyer, you will not get a bargain this way.

There is a completely different dynamic operating between firm pricing and auctions.


PS/BTW - I think that $125 is about the right price point for this one.

Title: NIB SIIG MiniTouch with blue Montereys BIN $159 shipped
Post by: ricercar on Wed, 02 May 2012, 14:03:18

YMMV. I got $250 selling my NIB Siig Minitouch with Monterreys.

Title: NIB SIIG MiniTouch with blue Montereys BIN $159 shipped
Post by: DesktopJinx on Wed, 02 May 2012, 17:56:27

A shrinking "Buy-It-Now" price is a poor man's reverse auction. A very high starting bid is another way to test the waters. It's interesting that we're seeing more of this. Perhaps it's more appropriate than a straight week-long auction when you believe there are buyers with money out there but they're not necessarily looking this week.

Title: NIB SIIG MiniTouch with blue Montereys BIN $159 shipped
Post by: fohat.digs on Wed, 02 May 2012, 22:25:57

Having sold hundreds of items, many rare or almost unique, on ebay, I have learned that pricing strategies are complex and multi-facteted.

A bottom-up auction is prejudiced in favor of buyers, a top-down fixed-price sale is prejudiced to the seller, as long as he knows where to start.

Also, neither buyer nor seller enjoys waiting "x" number of days for the process to play out.

I am guessing that you buy and don't sell, otherwise you would understand that the seller has to put considerable effort and thought into extracting the best price out of his sales.

Presuming that "the market" will find its proper place in an auction that begins low is wildly variable and undependable, even though ebay desperately wants you to play it that way.

Title: NIB SIIG MiniTouch with blue Montereys BIN $159 shipped
Post by: Maxrunner on Fri, 22 June 2012, 05:57:36

This one http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11051.m43.l1123/7?euid=ba1234101ed6499b983adb4d366877ac&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D261043672914%26ssPageName%3DADME%3AX%3ARTQ%3AUS%3A1123 (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11051.m43.l1123/7?euid=ba1234101ed6499b983adb4d366877ac&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fcgi.ebay.com%2Fws%2FeBayISAPI.dll%3FViewItem%26item%3D261043672914%26ssPageName%3DADME%3AX%3ARTQ%3AUS%3A1123)

sells one with alps switches, but he says they dont have alps written in the switches, so what kind are then?

regards,