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Title: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: skcheng on Tue, 16 February 2016, 06:33:29: Finally, a Buy it Now near retail price on a nice Topre Blank. It's a Buy it Now so I don't piss off anyone for mentioning this eBay listing!!

And no "best offer" option. I was figuring this is a rare blank in a exotic color (blue) so it should be worth at least $534 :eek: :eek:

http://tinyurl.com/js5ammb (http://tinyurl.com/js5ammb)
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: pr0ximity on Tue, 16 February 2016, 06:34:47: Quote from: skcheng on Tue, 16 February 2016, 06:33:29
Finally, a Buy it Now near retail price on a nice Topre Blank. It's a Buy it Now so I don't piss off anyone for mentioning this eBay listing!!

http://tinyurl.com/js5ammb (http://tinyurl.com/js5ammb)
That's a nice color
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: sth on Tue, 16 February 2016, 06:38:20: :( ridiculous
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: jaffers on Tue, 16 February 2016, 06:38:22: >near retail
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: theoriginal123123 on Tue, 16 February 2016, 06:39:44: -_-
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: fanpeople on Tue, 16 February 2016, 06:46:12: Good price
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: raymogi on Tue, 16 February 2016, 06:48:04: Best Clack auction so far.
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: ghostjuggernaut on Tue, 16 February 2016, 06:57:28: I'm sure they just misplaced the decimal. Right?

Right?
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: skcheng on Tue, 16 February 2016, 07:07:37: But herein lies the problem with eBay. If that seller started the auction at say a $30 starting big and posted the link here and on Reddit, I'm sure there would be a TON of bids with possibly some drunk bidders doing their best to outbid each other with days left in the auction. The bidding frenzy would probably continue till the last few seconds when the smart and rich eBayers have their snipe bids locked and loaded. Contrary to what people think, if there is global interest in a collectible, it DOES NOT matter whether you bid early or later.

What's the difference if I throw a $1500 bid in now, vs a $1500 snipe bid?? If I want something bad enough I'll enter my max bid one way or the other. The nice thing about a snipe bid is that I'm not up at 4am sitting there trying to get my bid in with 4 seconds left, just to have my computer freeze or the internet go down forcing me to miss the opportunity to obtain a BLUE Clack??!!??

Maybe when the listing ends in 29.5 days, he/she will relist at a more reasonable $534 Buy it Now LOLOL!!

With all of this craziness, $544 will stay buy a lot of Clack swag. Maybe a Drunken Skull and a Candycorn?? A Boogey Green and a Milk Blue?? Possibly 2/3 of a Tri-Colored Clack?? 4 or 5 Solid Colored Clacks from a reasonable seller .....

Anyway, carry on. And sorry if I blew it for someone trying to save up their lunch pennies in order to afford this wondrous BLUE BLANK!!
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: xondat on Tue, 16 February 2016, 07:30:41: brb taking out a mortgage.

this is ****
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: skcheng on Tue, 16 February 2016, 07:35:50: Quote from: xondat on Tue, 16 February 2016, 07:30:41
brb taking out a mortgage.

this is ****

As long as you don't charge this up on a credit card at 27.99% interest :eek:
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: FLFisherman on Tue, 16 February 2016, 07:37:24: Quote from: skcheng on Tue, 16 February 2016, 07:35:50
Quote from: xondat on Tue, 16 February 2016, 07:30:41
brb taking out a mortgage.

this is ****

As long as you don't charge this up on a credit card at 27.99% interest :eek:

To be fair, that 27.99% is annual interest. It's only like 2.33% monthly. Just pay your bill. :))
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: pr0ximity on Tue, 16 February 2016, 09:58:20: Quote from: skcheng on Tue, 16 February 2016, 07:07:37
But herein lies the problem with eBay. If that seller started the auction at say a $30 starting big and posted the link here and on Reddit, I'm sure there would be a TON of bids with possibly some drunk bidders doing their best to outbid each other with days left in the auction. The bidding frenzy would probably continue till the last few seconds when the smart and rich eBayers have their snipe bids locked and loaded. Contrary to what people think, if there is global interest in a collectible, it DOES NOT matter whether you bid early or later.

What's the difference if I throw a $1500 bid in now, vs a $1500 snipe bid?? If I want something bad enough I'll enter my max bid one way or the other. The nice thing about a snipe bid is that I'm not up at 4am sitting there trying to get my bid in with 4 seconds left, just to have my computer freeze or the internet go down forcing me to miss the opportunity to obtain a BLUE Clack??!!??

Maybe when the listing ends in 29.5 days, he/she will relist at a more reasonable $534 Buy it Now LOLOL!!

With all of this craziness, $544 will stay buy a lot of Clack swag. Maybe a Drunken Skull and a Candycorn?? A Boogey Green and a Milk Blue?? Possibly 2/3 of a Tri-Colored Clack?? 4 or 5 Solid Colored Clacks from a reasonable seller .....

Anyway, carry on. And sorry if I blew it for someone trying to save up their lunch pennies in order to afford this wondrous BLUE BLANK!!

The long and short of it is that snipe bidding generally results in people bidding what they feel the item is worth, rather than what everyone else feels the item is worth, which tends to keep prices more reasonable.

I don't completely agree that it would prevent the rampant inflation, but it's certainly possible that without eBay the prices would have climbed slower.
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Tue, 16 February 2016, 10:07:08: I almost fell for this one.

Cool color though, would definitely pay 1/20 of asking price. Shame they aren't accepting offers.
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: skcheng on Tue, 16 February 2016, 10:07:51: Quote from: pr0ximity on Tue, 16 February 2016, 09:58:20

Quote from: skcheng on Tue, 16 February 2016, 07:07:37
But herein lies the problem with eBay. If that seller started the auction at say a $30 starting big and posted the link here and on Reddit, I'm sure there would be a TON of bids with possibly some drunk bidders doing their best to outbid each other with days left in the auction. The bidding frenzy would probably continue till the last few seconds when the smart and rich eBayers have their snipe bids locked and loaded. Contrary to what people think, if there is global interest in a collectible, it DOES NOT matter whether you bid early or later.

What's the difference if I throw a $1500 bid in now, vs a $1500 snipe bid?? If I want something bad enough I'll enter my max bid one way or the other. The nice thing about a snipe bid is that I'm not up at 4am sitting there trying to get my bid in with 4 seconds left, just to have my computer freeze or the internet go down forcing me to miss the opportunity to obtain a BLUE Clack??!!??

Maybe when the listing ends in 29.5 days, he/she will relist at a more reasonable $534 Buy it Now LOLOL!!

With all of this craziness, $544 will stay buy a lot of Clack swag. Maybe a Drunken Skull and a Candycorn?? A Boogey Green and a Milk Blue?? Possibly 2/3 of a Tri-Colored Clack?? 4 or 5 Solid Colored Clacks from a reasonable seller .....

Anyway, carry on. And sorry if I blew it for someone trying to save up their lunch pennies in order to afford this wondrous BLUE BLANK!!

The long and short of it is that snipe bidding generally results in people bidding what they feel the item is worth, rather than what everyone else feels the item is worth, which tends to keep prices more reasonable.

I don't completely agree that it would prevent the rampant inflation, but it's certainly possible that without eBay the prices would have climbed slower.

Well right now Clacks are "hot". So people are stepping over each other to obtain "rare" or "somewhat rare" caps. But at the end of the day, we're looking at a BLUE Blank. And plenty of people can make excellent blanks for just a few dollars. I'm just pointing out a bit of the ridiculousness of this listing in my opinion. Maybe the seller doesn't really want to sell?? But if someone is willing to give him/her that much, then great ....

Snipe bids DO NOT keep prices down. Like I said, many people know how to snipe and if 10 of us have snipe bids put in, then the price is high no matter how many previous bids are already out there.

Webwit and I used to Outbid each other back in the good ol' days. We just didn't know we were doing that? The benefit of a Snipe is so you can sleep at night or work your day job without sitting next to your computer. But if something like this already has 23 bids with days left, there was no chance that someone was getting it for cheap:

http://tinyurl.com/jj3jmgj (http://tinyurl.com/jj3jmgj)
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: btctopre on Tue, 16 February 2016, 15:37:35: my pm offer of 54.40 was rejected, very disappointing.

LOOKS LIKE IT'S ALL YOURS, SYNJIN!
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: Steezus on Tue, 16 February 2016, 15:39:06: For $544 I might as well just use the money to buy some equipment to make my own blanks.
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: ander on Tue, 16 February 2016, 16:55:00: So many things pop up like this (for another fresh example, see "Acer KB-101 Blue Alps...", the topic next to this one), I think we should add a new GH category: Hysterical Anti-Deals. That way we can decide if we want to read about actual deals, or have some laughs at the ludicrousness of human nature.
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: whmeltonjr on Tue, 16 February 2016, 17:53:43: Quote from: Steezus on Tue, 16 February 2016, 15:39:06
For $544 I might as well just use the money to buy some equipment to make my own blanks.

Yeah, but it wouldn't be a Clack. :rolleyes:

Honestly, this has to be the most ridiculous listing of any CC I've seen to date.
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: ComradeSniper on Tue, 16 February 2016, 18:41:11: I'm offering my own rendition of this keycap in Dark Turquoise Sharpie Blue™ for only $250 for anyone interested in a low-cost alternative.

(https://i.imgur.com/sROWYZG.jpg)
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: skcheng on Tue, 16 February 2016, 19:32:54: Quote from: ComradeSniper on Tue, 16 February 2016, 18:41:11
I'm offering my own rendition of this keycap in Dark Turquoise Sharpie Blue™ for only $250 for anyone interested in a low-cost alternative.

Show Image
(https://i.imgur.com/sROWYZG.jpg)

I agree, great deal, but can you offer this:

2 yr warranty $134.99 from SquareTrade
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: Dongulator on Tue, 16 February 2016, 19:40:05: Quote from: ComradeSniper on Tue, 16 February 2016, 18:41:11
I'm offering my own rendition of this keycap in Dark Turquoise Sharpie Blue™ for only $250 for anyone interested in a low-cost alternative.

Show Image
(https://i.imgur.com/sROWYZG.jpg)

PM'd
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: crickclackman on Tue, 16 February 2016, 20:13:15: Ugh, some "Great Find".
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: bcredbottle on Tue, 16 February 2016, 20:22:59: Quote from: ComradeSniper on Tue, 16 February 2016, 18:41:11
I'm offering my own rendition of this keycap in Dark Turquoise Sharpie Blue™ for only $250 for anyone interested in a low-cost alternative.

Show Image
(https://i.imgur.com/sROWYZG.jpg)

That cap actually looks pretty fire. I like the marbling effect
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: fanpeople on Tue, 16 February 2016, 23:26:50: Quote from: ComradeSniper on Tue, 16 February 2016, 18:41:11
I'm offering my own rendition of this keycap in Dark Turquoise Sharpie Blue™ for only $250 for anyone interested in a low-cost alternative.

Show Image
(https://i.imgur.com/sROWYZG.jpg)

I'll give you 400
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: ander on Wed, 17 February 2016, 00:27:54: Quote from: ComradeSniper on Tue, 16 February 2016, 18:41:11
I'm offering my own rendition of this keycap in Dark Turquoise Sharpie Blue™ for only $250 for anyone interested in a low-cost alternative.

LOL!
Title: Re: Near Retail Priced Clack!!!!
Post by: ander on Wed, 17 February 2016, 00:35:44: Special, this week only:

Key-size blue artisan sugar cubes!

(https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5451098/il_570xN.156991018.jpg)

Carved with your choice of mount. Just $100 each (or 4 for $500) plus shipping and $1 ant-spray fee.