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Alex - £300 is not the finishing bid - it will probably go much higher than that. There are some very rich members on VL, such as V6JME, to whom £300 is change in his pocket, and who may be ready to pounce at the last minute and steal the TP2 away from you. Its best to budget for it costing you up to £500 - you are in with the big boys here - this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire one of the most popular Hoover cleaners of the 90's NIB. This is what sorts the boys from the REAL vac enthusiasts. Rarity costs money Alex. A lot of money.


 


This is the car of V6JME - you are bidding against members like this, so remember that - money talks!

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Well, Citroen, I'd imagine the DC01 you are bidding on will cost a fair big chunk of that. I can see that going for anything up to £500. We are talking BIG money on some of these rare and desireable vacs - a lot of collectors are interested in them, as I said in the last post - they have CONSIDERABLY more money to spend than we do.
 
No offence Steve but I think this is partially your fault that a lot of people would have to pay over the odds for these machines...If you hadn't of suggested auction the seller would of probably of put them up for Buy It Now.
What happened to this £90 the seller apparently wanted per new cleaner?
 
Alex - the seller wasn't going to list any more items and sell them all to a private collector, so you should be grateful that she is now listing them all for us to bid on. Why shouldn't she get the best prices for them - I hope she does - they owe her a hell of a lot of money, and she is giving you the opportunity to own any of these vacs, rather than a private collector.


You didn't seriously think you would get a rare cleaner like this for £90 did you? seriously?


 


The 2 electroluxes aren't going for £300 are they - you could get these for probably less than £200 each.


 


This is a real auction Alex, with real bidders, and not just those on Vacuumland - they are allowed to bid from the USA as well. If you want these cleaners you will have to dig deep into your pocket, as a lot of other people want that U2462.
 
Fault

If people are going to go down the line of pointing the finger, then the "fault" and the "blame" lies squarely with people who are too impatient to play the ebay auction game and bid at the end. As a bidder, what is the point in bidding now?

Personally, I am only too pleased that the seller is raising as much as she is. Having had my own shop for years, I know how many thousands of pounds has gone into buying and storing all this.
 
The point in bidding now, is to try to stop the seller selling the item to people who message them to end the auction early for X amount.


If there is a lot of interest in bidding, then most sellers will insist the auction runs to the end.


 


Sniping as its called Benny is all part of the Ebay experience. It makes sure that people bid the most they can afford, to try to discourage someone from sniping the item in the last few seconds.


I often see bids double in price in the last 5 seconds of an auction, so Alex must take account of this in what he sets his automatic bid limit to, so that a sniper doesn't outbid him.
 
I still say bidding now forces up the prices. I am no ebay expert, but a very accomplished ebay user did give me some training and advice. It was she who said that the real bids often come at the end, and yes, she too called it sniping.
 
You may be right Benny, but at the end of the day, lets say that this vacuum, the U2462 that Alex wants still stands at £301 with 10 seconds to go, and if the sniper bids £500 in the last 10 seconds, and Alex had set an automatic bid limit of £550, then the sniper would not have enough time to bid again, and thus lose the auction.


I have been a sniper myself on a lot of occasions, and I set a maximum price, wait till there are 5 seconds remaining, then click "BID NOW". I then cross my fingers and hope that what I bid will outdo any automatic bids placed earlier. If not, then tough titty, I lost.


 


The last 10 seconds of an Ebay auction are very exhilarating, and somewhat nerve wracking!
 
I get that

But to be fair, if anyone was bidding that kind of money on something like this, I'd be inclined to think they'd be sat watching the auction like a hawk, so that they can put that large bid on and see what it ends up as.
 
At the end of the day, A BIN price is an easy way out for the buyer, but the seller is guaranteed the price for the item, nothing more, nothing less.


 


An Auction is the best format for items where the seller doesn't know what they are worth. The buyer determines the price. The more rare and desireable an item is, and the more people that want it, then the price will go high.


If the item is not in demand, or no-one wants it, then the price, unless a reserve has been placed will go low.


Auctions can be a big risk, if you start it at a penny, and there is no reserve, and only one bidder, then that's the price you have to sell the item for.
 
Well considering this seller has plenty of stock of at least one of the items, I'm surprised to see that the auction for one alone has gone into a bidding frenzy.
 
She only has one of each Turbopower 2. The one that's going for less money is a more basic later model with no bag light. Alex likes machines with bag lights!

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you call THAT a car!?

Where on earth are the tail-fins!?
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