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Offline OldIsNew

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Model M Spacesaver $150 + ~18.50 shipping
« on: Thu, 30 March 2017, 23:35:51 »
This looks to be a pretty good deal from what I can see, at least compared to the prices I've seen.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-IBM-Model-M-Space-Saver-Keyboard-Part-1391472-1987-/322468638791?hash=item4b14a0f047:g:VzwAAOSww3tY3doM
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Re: Model M Spacesaver $150 + ~18.50 shipping
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 31 March 2017, 04:46:27 »
Nice find!   :thumb: 

I just checked it out, and someone has rather foolishly put a bid on it at $99.  They probably should have taken it at $150 while they had the chance.  I'm guessing it will go well beyond the original BIN price as other folks find the auction and begin competing to win it.

I got almost $270 for the last one I sold.
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Re: Model M Spacesaver $150 + ~18.50 shipping
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 31 March 2017, 18:17:47 »
Quote from: ekeppel on Fri, 31 March 2017, 04:46:27

foolishly put a bid on it at $99. 

They probably should have taken it at $150 while they had the chance.


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Re: Model M Spacesaver $150 + ~18.50 shipping
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 31 March 2017, 23:17:34 »
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Re: Model M Spacesaver $150 + ~18.50 shipping
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 31 March 2017, 23:50:11 »
Yep. It's been changed to a regular auction.
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Re: Model M Spacesaver $150 + ~18.50 shipping
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 01 April 2017, 08:28:41 »
The "Buy-It-Now" option evaporates when the first valid bid is placed.

If you want to take a chance and play the game without paying the BIN price, you need to snipe, not bid.
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"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
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Re: Model M Spacesaver $150 + ~18.50 shipping
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 01 April 2017, 15:28:19 »
Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 01 April 2017, 08:28:41
The "Buy-It-Now" option evaporates when the first valid bid is placed...

Really! I never realized that. In one way, it makes sense... If someone bids on something, they'd feel alienated if someone else then bought it out from under them. But if a buyer's willing to take a certain BIN price and receives bids only under that price, it doesn't seem like they should then be disallowed to sell it for the BIN price, does it? Tricky.
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Re: Model M Spacesaver $150 + ~18.50 shipping
« Reply #7 on: Sat, 01 April 2017, 15:54:47 »
Ebay loves to see anything that "generates excitement" because they feel that it makes buyers emotional and engaged.

Ebay does not give a damn about sellers, but they do throw sellers a bone on this one because once the bidding starts it can end up well over the BIN price.

Personally, I use "Fixed Price" when I want to sell something quickly - along with a reasonable price point.

An auction with a BIN option can be hijacked and forced to run for the full time period, for better or worse. Setting a BIN price close to the bid start is pointless, and starting a bid well below the BIN price can be problematic, too.

One way that a seller can use this in his favor is to run his normal auction with a fair and reasonable start bid, but put a sky-high BIN option on it and hope that somebody comes along who is desperate to get the item at any price.
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"However, even though I was born in the Mesozoic, I do know what anyone who wants to reach out to young people should say: Billionaires took your money. They took your chance to buy a home. They took your chance at a good education. They stole your opportunities. Billionaires took the things you want in life. If you really want those things, you have to take them back.
That's the message. That's the whole message. Say that every day, not just to reach America's frustrated young white men, but people of every age, race, and gender.
Late-stage capitalism is a wealth-concentration engine, focused on vacuuming up every dollar and putting it in as few hands as possible. Republicans are helping that vacuum suck.
How does a tiny fraction of the population get away with this? They do it by dividing the other 99% of Americans against themselves."
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Re: Model M Spacesaver $150 + ~18.50 shipping
« Reply #8 on: Sun, 02 April 2017, 22:13:43 »
Used for "light home use" - is that like in a lighthouse?
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Re: Model M Spacesaver $150 + ~18.50 shipping
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 06 April 2017, 23:37:41 »
Went for 177.50 + 18.85 shipping. Not as high as I thought it might go!
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Re: Model M Spacesaver $150 + ~18.50 shipping
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 06 April 2017, 23:38:46 »
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