My first "bad" eBay experience was with that same seller over mis-represented grips.
Won't even look at his ads ever since then.
Won't even look at his ads ever since then.
Coke grips or is the seller on coke??
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Kenny,
George definitely found you a beautiful pair of Cokes. Just wondering if you might be like myself though. When I think something happened a couple of years ago, if I really think about it, it might be more like 6-7 years ago. Why, because time flies when you're having fun........or as we get older!
Larry
Nope, 2 years ago, maybe 2 1/2. I was driving the car I bought back in
Feb 2020.
I date things to what I was driving at the time.
Maybe I paid more??
Bought and sold a lot of guns a few years back.
Just kept the ones I really liked.
I bought a pre-23 Outdoorsman a few years ago with a set of cokes. I replaced them with a set of Diamond Magnas and put the cokes in the safe. I've thought of selling them a number of times, but I know how it works: The minute I do I'll find a .44 Magnum in need of grips.
Auction tricks & psychology (or lack thereof)
I too watch the big joint auctions, have rarely (if ever) entered a bid just because I don't want to enter a bidding war, so I watch till it hits what I would have bid maximum. Not a real strategy, but here is something years of "vintage" (antiques to today's crowd of seemingly well heeled young buyers). I (and the wife) don't get into Louis the whatever and I'm not any competition to the Keno Brothers, but we do enjoy a real decent rate of return on quality pieces Ethan Allen, Henkel Harris, Mershon, etc.
When I list we do NOT ever use a reserve. Yes...you do "risk" someone grabbing the piece for a couple bucks, but in 40+ years now that has not ever been the case. Witness the popularity of "buy-it-now" pricing, and with true auctions (like GI, GB) those "penny auctions" are always what catches my eye because, like gambling, there IS A CHANCE I'll get it for peanuts. With reserve pricing, even though you don't know the reserve price, you are well aware that the seller has loaded in what he a: thinks it is worth (usually all gold), AND b: any sellers fees and taxes, so I'm usually well out of it before the bidding gets close to the reserve so a waste of time for me.
Like the furniture auctions, everything starts a $2.00 and there is a bunch that get it the first day with $2.00, 4, 6 then it stalls until the actual closing day, about 1 hr to go...then you see the proxies and max bids come in like gangbusters. Last 5 minutes get down to two duking it out $25 to $50 at a time.
I really think the no reserve, penny auction format brings a LOT more lookers and tire kickers, and there is at least 2..maybe more that will really want that piece.
Dang Ikabug....I really didn't know your neighbors needed a set of cokes that bad.
I too watch the big joint auctions, have rarely (if ever) entered a bid just because I don't want to enter a bidding war, so I watch till it hits what I would have bid maximum. Not a real strategy, but here is something years of "vintage" (antiques to today's crowd of seemingly well heeled young buyers). I (and the wife) don't get into Louis the whatever and I'm not any competition to the Keno Brothers, but we do enjoy a real decent rate of return on quality pieces Ethan Allen, Henkel Harris, Mershon, etc.
When I list we do NOT ever use a reserve. Yes...you do "risk" someone grabbing the piece for a couple bucks, but in 40+ years now that has not ever been the case. Witness the popularity of "buy-it-now" pricing, and with true auctions (like GI, GB) those "penny auctions" are always what catches my eye because, like gambling, there IS A CHANCE I'll get it for peanuts. With reserve pricing, even though you don't know the reserve price, you are well aware that the seller has loaded in what he a: thinks it is worth (usually all gold), AND b: any sellers fees and taxes, so I'm usually well out of it before the bidding gets close to the reserve so a waste of time for me.
Like the furniture auctions, everything starts a $2.00 and there is a bunch that get it the first day with $2.00, 4, 6 then it stalls until the actual closing day, about 1 hr to go...then you see the proxies and max bids come in like gangbusters. Last 5 minutes get down to two duking it out $25 to $50 at a time.
I really think the no reserve, penny auction format brings a LOT more lookers and tire kickers, and there is at least 2..maybe more that will really want that piece.
Dang Ikabug....I really didn't know your neighbors needed a set of cokes that bad.
Here's my $800 pair that come with a 2nd model 44 HE about 6 years ago.
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