by Garth » Fri May 29, 2009 5:40 pm
eBay pretty much reflects what they're worth to people. That does not mean however that you'll find a lot of consistency. Just keep it in your favorite searches so eBay Emails you every time one comes up for auction. There's one notorious seller whose prices are ridiculously high on buy-it-now-only options. His name sounds right along there with the capital of Germany. He has a near-perfect feedback rating and I don't know how he gets it if not from people with more money than patience who haven't been watching the market. I bought something recently in another field (not calculators) from a seller who had a near-perfect feedback rating, and then after I bought, I found out the feedback rating was somewhat artificial. I don't remember now how it worked. Anyway, the above-mentioned seller has written on the other fourm that we're all a bunch of idiots to appreciate these machines and that he's going to capitalize on that. Recently he had for example an Advantage module with a buy-it-now price of $250, with no chance of bidding less. But just a couple of days ago a co-worker bought (from another seller) a 41cx with the Advantage module, both for about $220, apparently in good condition.