[Consim-l] Re: #400 for me

[Dave Kohr]

On 1/3/07, Pat Collins <tippecanoe8 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Dave K wrote:
> > I've been amazed at the prices I've gotten on Ebay on many
> > titles--definitely higher than expected. It helps a lot if you
> > advertise a bit.
>
> Not to mention that you pay even if no one bids at all. And where to do
> advertise? USENET? Mailing lists?

USENET is free, but probably few people are reading these days. I
think the most effective places are here, the boardwargaming list, the
Geek (create a geeklist), and of course consimworld, which has a forum
specifically for that purpose. I think I also used a marketplace
mailing list that's an offshoot of spielfrieks.

I only ever had 1 item that got no bids, and that one was a real dog
so I got what I deserved. :-)

It can be very effective to bundle up a group of logically related
low-value items into a lot, and sell them together on Ebay. You're
more likely to get a decent bid, and you only have to handle one
moderate-size transaction instead of several annoyingly small ones.

Dave