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<p>[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 4625575, member: 10944"]The great thing about eBay or wherever is that you can ask anything you want. For common objects you aren’t going to be able to outprice the competition by too much unless you have a strong following that will buy your stuff without checking elsewhere. For less common objects or objects with an uncommon modification and/or provenance (your gallery frames) you can name your price. It doesn’t mean they will sell but if you only ask $15 that’s all you can get. If you ask $40 you may get it because someone likes the frames and vintage CA stuff is cool. I find it amazing the prices I get for stuff sometimes. I just price high and see what happens and it works a good deal of the time. For one of a kind or rare items you get to set the market. If they are cool and unique someone will eventually come around quite often. I don’t know anything about these or how common they are but they have a nice little look and someone may like them. If something has a listing title that people commonly use sometimes I title mine differently without being dishonest so that if they search for others a bunch of them don’t show up. You can get creative with wording and not use common keywords while still honestly describing an item so that it might seem less common based on common search terms. If that makes sense. Just a couple cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J Dagger, post: 4625575, member: 10944"]The great thing about eBay or wherever is that you can ask anything you want. For common objects you aren’t going to be able to outprice the competition by too much unless you have a strong following that will buy your stuff without checking elsewhere. For less common objects or objects with an uncommon modification and/or provenance (your gallery frames) you can name your price. It doesn’t mean they will sell but if you only ask $15 that’s all you can get. If you ask $40 you may get it because someone likes the frames and vintage CA stuff is cool. I find it amazing the prices I get for stuff sometimes. I just price high and see what happens and it works a good deal of the time. For one of a kind or rare items you get to set the market. If they are cool and unique someone will eventually come around quite often. I don’t know anything about these or how common they are but they have a nice little look and someone may like them. If something has a listing title that people commonly use sometimes I title mine differently without being dishonest so that if they search for others a bunch of them don’t show up. You can get creative with wording and not use common keywords while still honestly describing an item so that it might seem less common based on common search terms. If that makes sense. Just a couple cents.[/QUOTE]
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