The impossibly priced Cycle Garden Ebay bikes thread - It's all about marketing, you know.

[Triple Jim]

Same thing I do.   Never quite understood why people chase stuff with low bids and "sniping".    Just say what you'll give and let 'er rip.

I've probably posted this before, but when I bought my first eBay item a long time ago, it was very clear that if I had not placed any bid until a few seconds before the end, I would have gotten it cheaper.  Just seeing a higher bid will make some people reconsider their "maximum".  Yes, if everyone would place his maximum and leave it alone, it would work fine, but that's not what happens most of the time.

[Dilliw]

Same here.  I set my maximum price and hold to it.  Ebay will auto-bid for me and if I get overbid, well there's always another opportunity later down the road.  Never been contacted by a seller with a last-chance offer.

On big ticket items I've done quite well by being the second highest bidder or the highest "real" bidder.  I've bought two cars and a nice watch that way.  On my Jeep the seller got locked up with a deadbeat for a while and by the time he contacted me with the second chance he was totally frustrated.  I feel I got a really nice deal on that one.

[donn]

Yes, if everyone would place his maximum and leave it alone, it would work fine, but that's not what happens most of the time.

Right.  You can look at bid histories and see this very clearly.  Some kinds of stuff may not attract that kind of auction fool - for example new stuff, where it's kind of an auction version of Amazon, maybe no one's going to get sucked in to a bidding war over a set of tires or something.  But the guys who put in big bids on this Eldo with days to go?  A head scratcher.

[jas67]

No surprise here, but, there is a selling on ebay trying to capitalize on Moe's success by using   "moe" in his username,
moecraftmarinefrank .

He currently has a police guzzi listed.

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

So when "moecraftmarinefrank" registered with eBay back in 2011, he chose a name with "moe" in it just so he could cash in on Cycle Garden's notoriety even though he wouldn't even have the Eldo to sell until Aug. 2015? 

[oldbike54]

 To paraphrase a pop song from the 80s


                               No Moe , No Moe       No Moe , No Moe         No Moe  (slight fade) No Moe , No Moe


  Dusty

[jas67]

So when "moecraftmarinefrank" registered with eBay back in 2011, he chose a name with "moe" in it just so he could cash in on Cycle Garden's notoriety even though he wouldn't even have the Eldo to sell until Aug. 2015?

Good research, Charlie -- I didn't look that far into it.
You can change your username on ebay.   Does that reset the register date?    Gotta wonder.