6 fake bidders in 1 hit. Wow how unlucky. You usually get 1 occasionally but 6??? That's just crazy! I see one is from the USA and one no longer exists.
Curiouser and curiouser.. .. Very odd. Oh well, as I asked, if we can have the matching auction links a little bit of AP detective work can commence and maybe we can work out this very odd situation.
I think there are a few of us keyboard detectives waiting for the matching auction links. Ebay is no longer a safe and honest haven to sell pinballs. A shame really - I didn't even know that you could ban ebay accounts from bidding on your items until I started selling vids. Now I have a list as long as my arm !
Must make guys thinking of bringing their first container in, to part re-sell to cover costs, think again. Unfortunately Ebay is the market place, you can only sell so many pins to collectors on forums.
eBay is not the market place for pins - it may serve as a price guide, but it is definitely "last resort" for me.
I've sold 35- 40 pins outside of eBay in the last 12 years. I have a "queue" of 14 machines pre sold that I have not even started. I have listed 4 fully restored pinballs on eBay. Only TWO were actual sales, two were sold "outside" ebay. eBay is the LAST place I'd sell a pinball - although I've been lucky - as one guy who viewed a "Future Spa" I listed, bought another game in my garage and then proceed to buy four others. He told his mate .. etc.. etc..
It reminds me of the eBay listing for the KISS, Evel Knievel and KISS - So the eBay auction reads "Best Star Trek I've ever seen" .. Sounds to me like the seller has not seen many Star Treks, as I've personally seen 4-5 better machines. eBay is more for newbs and pinheads who want a machine NOW without doing their homework and a fist full of cash (and no brains !)..
Some of the prices on eBay these days is just hilarious - $3000+ for project pins is just laughable. I'll still look to buy more machines and continue to restore them - but I won't rely on eBay as a marketplace.
I digress..
