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#21 ·
these crazy prices are the reason i have went from wants to needs. i am not paying $250 for a planter when i can buy an earthway for around 100 and get all of the seed plates and really it wouldn't be that hard to convert to 3 point and i know thats not collector point of view, but i'll start collecting when i get older. i used to collect postwar lionel trains and this is the same reason i got out of that:sidelaugh:sidelaugh:sidelaugh
 
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#22 ·
Ebay and auctions set the Real price something is worth,just because you found Model X 5 years ago in someone's back yard for $25 hardly means that always is going to be the selling price.I've seen prices of larger antique tractors like the John Deere 330 (not the GT 330)
go from $2000 to $25,000+ in the last 25 years and no reason to think that collector Garden Tractors won't do the same thing.Thousands of GT are going to scrap every year which makes them all the more scarce plus GT owners tend to hack them up pretty good so nice originals are hard to find and thats what collectors want.
 
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Don't know what to think of what goes on on eBay. I guess it is according to how much somebody wants something and how much they are willing to pay. Non-paying bidders can cause a lot of problems when somebody is trying to make a sale.
 
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Another thing that is making the price of tractors go up is pulling. I have seen this mainly with Cub Cadets, but a few Sears. People will pay outrageous prices for old GT's.
I went to an auction an seen a 1967 Sears Suburban 10, in good condition. It sold for alittle over $500. I was going to become a pulling tractor.
 
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Plowthesidewalk said:
Don't know what to think of what goes on on eBay. I guess it is according to how much somebody wants something and how much they are willing to pay. Non-paying bidders can cause a lot of problems when somebody is trying to make a sale.
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I've sold on ebay since 1998. I've only had 2 non-payers. Both women, both on Mink coats. I never sell anything that is aimed toward a woman...:fing32:
 
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tankdriver said:
I've sold on ebay since 1998. I've only had 2 non-payers. Both women, both on Mink coats. I never sell anything that is aimed toward a woman...:fing32:
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I have bought and sold stuff on eBay also with several non-paying bidders. More than I can handle because I had to work for over a month to sell an item that non-paying bidders kept tying up. Other times I sold stuff on eBay for about $25 that other people were getting bids as high as $100+ for everytime. Only one person would bid on my item while bunches of bids were being placed on the other guys items.

I say something is fishy about it. How many people buy tools on a daily basis? Look on eBay at how many bids are placed on a daily basis for the same type of tools. It makes my mind wonder if people are placing bogus bids in an effort to create a false market for the items they try to sell. Then they probably don't pay after they pump the price up.

Years ago eBay was allowing a seller to let bidders with fewer than 5 purchases to bid on their items and then excuse them from having to pay after they pumped the price up high. Then the seller would go to the next highest bidder with more than 5 purchases and say pay up after the excused bidder had pumped their price all the way up. That is not fair. The people at eBay would say, "you agreed to pay the price."
 
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I've bid on several items on E(vil)Bay that I know were shilled. So far I haven't been caught in that trap. Then again, I know what I can or will pay and do not go above that amount. Twice I have been contacted after the "ending" to offer me a deal, yeah, right! No Thanks!
 
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#30 ·
It's called auction frenzy. People just get caught up in trying to outbid each other if they want something. I've sold a handful of used items myself that went for darn near what you could get them for new. Great for sellers, but not for buyers.
 
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#32 ·
i sent the seller an email and told him he was insane price is down to 1500 now and i sold 2 in better shape for 500 last fall
 
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#33 ·
Ebay is just more exposure than any other forum. When you compare ebay to CL, you are talking world wide vs. local. Non shipping items on ebay tend to bring much lower prices because of much fewer prospective buyers.
There is no problem on Ebay with shipping prices by the way. Shipping is stated in the auctions. If you decide you are willing to pay what you bid plus the stated shipping and bid, what's the beef?

Ebay does bring crazy prices sometimes, but that is because 2 people or more had to have that hard to find item. Just because they think it is worth a lot more than I do doesn't make it any less valuable.

If you want to buy cheap, go to local auctions. If you need a part you can't get locally, buy it from me on ebay.
I'm glad to see no one mentioned snipers. That wivestale is about dried up. I had a guy who missed out on a Davis trencher i sold a month ago but did show up to get a Deere grille of all things, and said he got outbid by 1 second. Sorry, you can bid any amount of time you want but money is all you get outbid by on ebay.
I've outbid last second bidders most of the time, and they outbid me almost as often, but the money is what always wins. The time is just something to amuse the newbys.
That said. there will always be kooks listing tractors for $4000 that wouldn't bring $400 in twice as good of shape. Asking $4000 doesn't make them worth that much and using their ads as examples just confuses more people. Now if they actually SELL items that seem overpriced, it might be time to sell your own stuff. Mine only seem to be valuable AFTER I sell them.
 
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Some people think that anything old is GOLD
 
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#39 ·
You would think they would have the brains to spend 5 mins and do some "market analysis" first :D
 
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