Seems no one has mentioned ebays proxy bidding system.
The high bidder may have bid 1500, we will never know.
If you don't set a proper reserve- there is always the
chance you will not find 2 bidders to fight it out.
However, if you set a proper reserve, and there are no
takers on that given day, you "live to fight again."
Many times I have seen an item sell for less than I
would pay but cash flow did not allow me to bid at
that very time...
-paul genaro
sidney ny
> Mark Agree wrote:
> >
> > What confounds me, is the suspicion that the Campy
> gears, having been sold
> > alone might easily have gone up over $1000. Why
> then do the high rolling
> > bidders not attack an entire gruppo in one fell
> swoop?
>
> Looking at past auctions on eBay, Cambio Corsa (two
> shift rods & two
> hubs is all) doesn't go for even half that,
> especially rusty versions.
> I think the emerging reality is that there is more
> of this stuff (1940s)
> than there are buyers to fight over it.
>
> The majority of the collectors I've met are looking
> for 1970s and even
> 1980s bikes and an old soldier from the 1940s while
> interesting, is not
> something they have been obsessing over trying to
> find and possess.
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, CA
>
> .
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