Eddie
I know that the spirit of the auction will also drive up a price. I know that I have seen it many times when I used to sell a lot on ebay. As for the silver paint, I put a set of these headers on my 72 304 Gremlin back in 1973, I beleive that I paid around $125.00 for them, which back than I was only making around $3.00 an hrs, preping new AMC. But the header started to rust a few weeks after i installed them, so I removed them and cleaned them with a wirewheel and painted them with Hi Temp paint, using that they stayed nice for about year, Aftyer that I said the hell with it, because it was a go car, not a show car. The point is is that the paint from that time was that great.
Ed
--- On Mon, 2/22/10, Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] I just don't understand the stupid people on ebay
To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, February 22, 2010, 11:35 AM
There are whole range of factors at work here. And not confined to ebay only, hell, you can find them at swap meets, craigslist, even live auctions
There are people out there who don't do research on items. A good case would be that 69 BBG AMX that appeared on my AMC Classifieds last year for $10K/obo in Arlington, TX. Suddenly it was in Wylie, TX and on ebay for $18K/obo. So dragging it across a few counties cost $8K! It still didn't sell and last I saw it was in ebay hell, that is, those cars that take up residency on ebay week after week, price slowly dropping week after week, everyone tired of seeing them while owner, or seller, tries to make $$$.
Not against capitalism at all, but possibly the buyer of the headers wanted that chrome paint, as opposed to the black hi temp paint on the Jegs site?
How about that used Nintendo NES that sold for $13,105 on ebay? That one game there, there are only 10 copies in world known to exist.
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