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What can happen when 2 people really want the same pen!
Correct me if I'm wrong this is a fairly common Lady Shkripsert, no?
Steve
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Wow - I sold one of those here for a lot less. Well, no accounting for what people want, or how badly.
Hmmm. Who knows? Maybe the buyer was trying to replace a cherished family heirloom. 
I recently saw a brushed chrome Imperial (Model 444?) bid up to over $150. Something like 30 bids from one of those single-digit-feedback buyers...another dollar higher every couple of hours or so. Where are these people when I have something to sell?
Note, however, that this seller seems to warrant, unconditionally, that "the new owner will be very happy." That's a pretty good value for a hundred bucks.
Cheers,
Jon
I recently saw a brushed chrome Imperial (Model 444?) bid up to over $150. Something like 30 bids from one of those single-digit-feedback buyers...another dollar higher every couple of hours or so. Where are these people when I have something to sell?
Note, however, that this seller seems to warrant, unconditionally, that "the new owner will be very happy." That's a pretty good value for a hundred bucks.
Cheers,
Jon
Gotta love auctions.
My father was an fine art dealer and, as a result, I was introduced to the auction scene early as a kid.
One of my favorite memories was the time I innocently ask him what a particular painting he was interested in was worth. After a seconds pause his answer was that since a painting had almost no intrinsic value in itself, after all it was only paint on a piece of canvas, in the final analysis it was "only worth what some damn fool is willing to pay me for it".
We could argue that our pens are a little better than paintings, after all we can always write with them and, in a pinch, the little hunk of gold at the end is worth something but, when all is said and done, they are "only worth what ......"
My father was an fine art dealer and, as a result, I was introduced to the auction scene early as a kid.
One of my favorite memories was the time I innocently ask him what a particular painting he was interested in was worth. After a seconds pause his answer was that since a painting had almost no intrinsic value in itself, after all it was only paint on a piece of canvas, in the final analysis it was "only worth what some damn fool is willing to pay me for it".
We could argue that our pens are a little better than paintings, after all we can always write with them and, in a pinch, the little hunk of gold at the end is worth something but, when all is said and done, they are "only worth what ......"
Any knowledge about the value of the item prior to the bidding or perhaps more patience for another opportunity might have helped in this case.
But, fast bidding patterns also happen when the seller asks for instance both his neighbour and his cousin to bid where these bidders have no other intention than to raise the price artificially on behalf of the seller. If somebody takes the bait, well ... Do not get me wrong, I do not state that such was the case at this particular auction for this FP. But I have seen it happen in other auctions.
Ruud
But, fast bidding patterns also happen when the seller asks for instance both his neighbour and his cousin to bid where these bidders have no other intention than to raise the price artificially on behalf of the seller. If somebody takes the bait, well ... Do not get me wrong, I do not state that such was the case at this particular auction for this FP. But I have seen it happen in other auctions.
Ruud
It is worth $112.50 to 1939noel, regardless of who they were bidding against.
If they didn't value the pen that much they wouldn't have bid that high.
And since it is their pen now they are the only ones that count.
If they didn't value the pen that much they wouldn't have bid that high.
And since it is their pen now they are the only ones that count.
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