I'm not offended by anything. You can sell for for whatever you like. I'm just not understanding your logic behind buy now of $250. The bid that fell through was $108ish? What makes you think doubling up will help sales? If anything I would put starting bid at somewhere around $90 and let it go from there.
Ah, fair enough. I didn't responded completely, my bad. It wasn't as whimsical as you may've imagined. I prefer to go from a higher price down to a lower one. I took five facts to put it a higher price: price of similar auctions, number of watchers interested (you'd get surprised how many it got last time), buzz around the forums and not only this (you'd get an idea with the page views of this topic, 600+), rarity of the item. It was the first time I listed the item and already it got a nice price, that counts too. I know I'd sell them instantly at 100, that's why, but I prefer to put a higher price tag and wait a week or two if it gets me a nicer chunk. If it would've gotten bad results I'd have had to lower the price already, but reality turned out different. Furthermore, I could sell them for less to somebody I know or through the forum, anything that happens first and that I'm comfortable with.
Anyway, theory weights nothing, let see how it goes, but I've experience in auctions. I've been a seller in some site similar to ebay in my country for 7 years and most hunches worked for me after 5 years or so selling stuff.
Probably I wouldn't sell them to a forum member though, because here people are pretty knowleadgable to get their own stuff, in respect to soldering and whatnot, etc. but not all people have the time to go and seek around keyboards for weeks or moths, and the alps community is not as big as cherry for instance. And as somebody said already, probably the ones that do appreciate them well enough, already have them, the others haven't probably know them because the aren't that common. The blue ones existed for a short time frame, then they replaced it with white complicated alps. Almost to all alps collectors out there, the only missing switch is the blue cm, just ask around or search the forums. That's the reason I'm posting it in ebay too, to get a worldwide reach.
As for their feeling, they're the sweetest alps switch made ever. Period. That's how good they are. I'm no desperate to sell them, I prefer to keep them if I do not get them sold for a price I'm comfortable with.
