Who Is Buying At These Prices?! Am I Crazy?

Joeturbo26,
The ebay Buy It Now prices do seem on the high side, however I've noticed that on every Buy It Now price that I've ever seen.

Is there a common seller policy on Buy It Now prices, for example, is it catalog price plus 30% ?

I've wondered for a long time whether Buy It Now price is really 'People that have More Money than Sense' price or "I Gotta Have It at Any Price" price. The Germans call it the 'Lover's Price'.
However, at least one can be relatively sure that ebay isn't going to have viruses lurking on the site. I use Site Advisor www.siteadvisor.com and its community Reviews to check on every site unknown to me before I visit it. Paying a price premium on ebay would be cheaper to me than getting a virus from a website and eradicating it.

BIN will always be higher then auctions since its basically I will only see it for this price and am willing to sit on the coin until I get that price. It also plays into people who dont want to wait for auctions to end. I always have the option on my auctions for that just in case someone wants to, have never just listed a BIN price though

Personally I dont understand the love affair with the monster toned that currently seems to be happening, but it does leave more clean coins for me so I hope it continues lol

Feedback doesn't mean a whole lot, its very easy to beef up your feedback other than getting it legit.

As far as your questions something suspicious could be going on, but it could be as simple as he has no interest in negotiating and didnt feel the need to respond to say so

You can either make multiple accounts and buy and sell from yourself leaving feedback, theres sites you can pay to do it. Theres a lot of ways really.

Its not always easy to tell sometimes itll be sloppy and if you look through the feedback there will be identical ones that dont sound like things people would say all the time or be very elaborate with symbols.

Theres a lot of ways really but its usually not a huge worry except for buying out of suspect countries.

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Not always true. I also collect stamps. An ebay seller placed two auctions at the same time: One for a stamp in VF condition and another for the same stamp in EF condition. The superior condition of the EF stamp was obvious. The VF stamp started at a penny. The EF stamp had a BUY-IT-NOW of $180. I knew from experience that $180 was a very reasonable price for that stamp in that condition, so I jumped on it, while the VF was still at about $25. By the time the auction ended for the VF stamp, the closing price was over $225. Whether it's stamps or coins, I follow several auctions of things I plan to look for in the future just to see what a good price is before I even BEGIN to place bids!

(The stamp was a 315 5c Second Bureau Imperf for any stamp collectors out there).

larsdog,
I'm intrigued.

How does one grade stamps, please ?

I thought either a stamp is complete or it's not; either it's used, mounted mint, or unmounted mint; with perhaps difference in postmarks or cancellations.

I couldn't either Dave