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In case any of you have US$30k lying around: Behold, the Sony Sobax ICC-600W:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SONY-SOBAX-ICC-600W-1ST-GEN-SONY-DESKTOP-CALCULATOR-/180510432740?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item2a07429de4

You might even be able to talk him down to US$25k!

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...RETAILED FOR $1275.00!!

So he'd try for 23x the price? That's 4x infaltion? (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates 1969 USD1275 as ~USD7500 in 2010)

There's been a "Vintage retro rare 1967 programmable Casio calculator", item no. 200468390154 listed for about a year now (I think ?) with no buyers @ GBP5000.00 (~USD7200.00), what makes this person think there'll be a buyer for this at that price when it's not even as interesting (e.g. not programmable)?

Some sellers will try anything.

What I don't understand is when you see the same item relisted over and over again - with no bidders - at the same price! What part of "it's not worth that much" do they not understand?

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What part of "it's not worth that much" do they not understand?

The "there's a sucker born every minute" part. They're just waiting for the right minute to come along.

Sometimes it seems to me like the seller is the sucker, though, since he keeps paying eB** listing fees, with no sale.

That's my feeling too. Not to mention the time one needs to maintain persistent auctions.

If you honestly think someone is going to chuck out $30k for this, then that's one thing, but I see some of the same calculators listed persistently with a price that is only high enough to be undesirable (rather than empirically unreasonable, say an HP 48sx for US$200), and I can't imagine that persisting with such an auction would be worth their time and money.

The only motive I can see for this would be a matter of pride: "I know this calculator is worth this much, and darnit, someone will pay for it sooner or later." (Or maybe if you personally don't want to part with it for less than that amount, but even so, why post it persistently.)

If you a different perspective on this, please enlighten me.

One thing that feeds the leave it on the market at a crazy price mentality is that if you have an average ebaby store, you pay 5 cents for a 30 day "buy it now" auction. One insane buyer for the 50 or 3000 items you have up for sale and you've made your month. You and me can laugh at it but it's probably a good business model.
In a related auction this dildo thinks if he just claims that an item is RPN; he can raise it's worth by two orders of magnitude. But it's not RPN, not unusual, possibly rare only because the majority have been thrown away. Who knows what VTG means.

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One thing that feeds the leave it on the market at a crazy price mentality is that if you have an average ebaby store, you pay 5 cents for a 30 day "buy it now" auction. One insane buyer for the 50 or 3000 items you have up for sale and you've made your month. You and me can laugh at it but it's probably a good business model.

This makes sense. However, I have seen regular 7-day auctions repeated like this. You know they have to pay non-trivial fees in that case.

I think (it hasn't been relevant to me in awhile) that you can relist for no additional cost if your item doesn't sell. I just looked - seems you can do it only once.

Dennis,

I just "tested" this 30 days approach with an overpriced SR-51 (Auction # 18050469240)and can tell you: Offers in the $100 ... $180 range for my Buy-It-Now $250 sticker.

So with a $30,000 sticker price ;-))

Have a great memorial day weekend.

Regards,
Joerg