SS set sale sellers (fuc!< ebayR)

[beatlust]

"Hey eBay dealers, I'm sick of all this bidding against other people stuff and having to pay top dollar for your records. Why don't, you know, just like offer them to me here so I don't have to do that?"... which is basically what this dude is asking.
umm if im 'that dude' thats not what i was asking (at all) as i said i pay fair market value for records. its more for ME about keeping things off the ebay (paypal/creditcard) account i share w/ the wife. its about ebay sniping getting really old. its about paypal getting a percantage of the sellers dough (arent i the considerate one). Its about supporting the dudes on here rather that some guy who lucked up on a headless heros at a flea market and is going to flip (i just found $500 in the street related. no hate)..
ive had some really good experiences buying off soulstrut but then some big posters have let me down a little bit..no e-beef...

i never said hook me up because im the super raer grippeuer. i was just ASKING sellers to consider the non-ebay buyer. i like to see the record buy it and pay (and sometimes admittedly overpay) good money for it. not wait for a week and see if i can get a deal on a copy of blahblah underpriced ebay score...

doesnt ebay paypal kinda sting the seller witht the fees and such incurred in the auction listing and payment process??

This post has nothing to do w/ paying the 'right' prices for records and was more to let the ebay sellers/dealers know that I (and surely others) appreciate the sales that dont go on ebay and go down on the strut. no homo.

peace.

 

[beatlust]

Why not just bid your "fair market value" amount on eBay? Sometimes you'll win (unless your "fair market value" price is unrealistically low).

its creditcard w/ the wife related..

 

[SoulOnIce]

Look, we have this thread fairly often. It always breaks down
to the same points for and against set sales. I always ride for
set sales, but then last week that dude Button had a set sale with
a ton of 45's at great prices, I fully wanted to drop $125 with him
but was on financial lockdown for the week. Nobody else seemed to
step up, so now that dude would probably say "set sales are a waste
of time for a seller" ... but the same exact list 2 weeks later, I
would have bought 10-12 of his 45's. Point being, alot of it comes
down to timing. You are dealing with a much smaller customer base
than eBay, like tens of thousands of people smaller, so you need
the timing to be more right, the right person seeing it with the
willingness to spend the money. Think of all the things you pass
up on eBay, just because you aren't looking to drop the money at the
time.

I think the best set sales are in the Ari/JP style, a bunch of
under-the-radar stuff that they talk up a little and have sound files of,
unknown LP's you can take a chance on because they know their shit.

 

[hammertime]

doesnt ebay paypal kinda sting the seller witht the fees and such incurred in the auction listing and payment process??

First of all I would bet 99.9% of set sale purchases on this site are made with Paypal so you can stop talking about Paypal fees, that's a moot point. Secondly do you think dudes on here that sell on ebay have never noticed that ebay takes a cut? Apparently a lot of people think it's worth the price, and I highly doubt you're going to change any minds. It's probably time to just

 

[shooterali]

Look, we have this thread fairly often. It always breaks down
to the same points for and against set sales. I always ride for
set sales, but then last week that dude Button had a set sale with
a ton of 45's at great prices, I fully wanted to drop $125 with him
but was on financial lockdown for the week. Nobody else seemed to
step up, so now that dude would probably say "set sales are a waste
of time for a seller" ... but the same exact list 2 weeks later, I
would have bought 10-12 of his 45's. Point being, alot of it comes
down to timing. You are dealing with a much smaller customer base
than eBay, like tens of thousands of people smaller, so you need
the timing to be more right, the right person seeing it with the
willingness to spend the money. Think of all the things you pass
up on eBay, just because you aren't looking to drop the money at the
time.

I think the best set sales are in the Ari/JP style, a bunch of
under-the-radar stuff that they talk up a little and have sound files of,
unknown LP's you can take a chance on because they know their shit.

Yeah, I agree. It's about timing. I've seen Aleit/JP put up sales and only move 15 to 20 records out of maybe 50 things.While the heavy priced stuff sits. Then there was someone on here who was selling "Wayne McGhie" . It was listed for 500 and I believe it sold.

 

[JLR]

last week that dude Button had a set sale with
a ton of 45's at great prices, I fully wanted to drop $125 with him
but was on financial lockdown for the week. Nobody else seemed to
step up, so now that dude would probably say "set sales are a waste
of time for a seller" ... but the same exact list 2 weeks later, I
would have bought 10-12 of his 45's.

send Button a PM and stop this crying in pubic, please

 

[SoulOnIce]

last week that dude Button had a set sale with
a ton of 45's at great prices, I fully wanted to drop $125 with him
but was on financial lockdown for the week. Nobody else seemed to
step up, so now that dude would probably say "set sales are a waste
of time for a seller" ... but the same exact list 2 weeks later, I
would have bought 10-12 of his 45's.

send Button a PM and stop this crying in pubic, please

I STILL SOUND POOR

 

[hcrink]

"Hey eBay dealers, I'm sick of all this bidding against other people stuff and having to pay top dollar for your records. Why don't, you know, just like offer them to me here so I don't have to do that?"... which is basically what this dude is asking.

umm if im 'that dude' thats not what i was asking (at all)
Well, I apologize then.

The thing is while YOU might be willing to pay top dollar outside of eBay, the vast majority of soul strut just isn't. They want bargains and they want them on a (relatively) very specific few titles.

 

[JLR]

last week that dude Button had a set sale with
a ton of 45's at great prices, I fully wanted to drop $125 with him
but was on financial lockdown for the week. Nobody else seemed to
step up, so now that dude would probably say "set sales are a waste
of time for a seller" ... but the same exact list 2 weeks later, I
would have bought 10-12 of his 45's.

send Button a PM and stop this crying in pubic, please

I STILL SOUND POOR
I like how you express that the potential transaction would have been valued at $125.
Reminds of a time in Argentina when people would fill supermarket trolleys and then abandon them at the cashiers lines...virtual shopping

 

[beatlust]

"Hey eBay dealers, I'm sick of all this bidding against other people stuff and having to pay top dollar for your records. Why don't, you know, just like offer them to me here so I don't have to do that?"... which is basically what this dude is asking.

umm if im 'that dude' thats not what i was asking (at all)
Well, I apologize then.

The thing is while YOU might be willing to pay top dollar outside of eBay, the vast majority of soul strut just isn't. They want bargains and they want them on a (relatively) very specific few titles.
apology accepted. peace.

 

[SoulOnIce]

virtual window shopping

 

[button]

$125 was last week's price. This week it's $150 and next week it will be $197.34.

But anyways, I usually just price at or a bit under typical ebay rates. I've found that with set sales here, unless you're unloading something enshrined in the SS top 20, the only way you'll sell a bulk of product is if you price it all at sub-ebay levels. Which can be fine if you factor in all the ebay fees, or if you just need to clear stuff out fast. But its sort of annoying when you consider ebay prices to be theoretically lower than what set sale prices should be. Like if a record goes for $25 on ebay, the winner's max bid was probably $30 or whatever, but you end up having to sell it here for $16.

Every sale I've got a few records I'm not dying to part with so I go fishing and set prices a little HIGHER then the ebay price. Guess how many of those ever move...

But, in fairness, I can't do sound clips which is a pretty major thing.

The best though is when you had a set-sale record a YEAR AND A HALF ago for like $20 that just ebayed for $60 and out of nowhere dudes start tripping over themselves PMing you about it. That's the best


All that being said, at the end of the day set sales are still fun to do. Even if you get a couple less dollars per record, it generally means that if you're quick you'll nab a few deals too.

 

[Swayze]

if you're looking for set-sale madness, check my website this weekend. shit's about to go down.
www.calisoulbrother.com

 

[Swayze]

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