This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer

**MikeEdgerton** · May-30-2013, 3:23pm

This looks nice, but at that price it will never see a buyer.

**pefjr** · May-30-2013, 3:35pm

Originally Posted by MikeEdgerton

This looks nice, but at that price it will never see a buyer.

hmmm.... I missed that bargain.

I narrowed my search down to auction only and eliminated 90 % of the listings. Then most of the ones left never get a bid. EBAY is not an auction anymore, it's a online lookers mall, and their fees are over 10% now, makes CL look good.

**Jim Garber** · May-30-2013, 3:38pm

I think it is partly the Antiques Roadshow syndrome. Every attic and every grandmother had a Loar-signed F5 or everyone heads out to the flea market and comes home with a valuable painting. Oh well. Too bad... I love my Maurer which I paid about $300. it is practically the same with the exception of the pick guard.

**jim simpson** · May-30-2013, 3:42pm

I got a kick out of this guitar being priced at $500 - they usually sell for $150.
Lots of sellers are either ignorant of market prices and become overly optimistic.

http://wheeling.craigslist.org/msg/3832900789.html

**JeffD** · May-30-2013, 4:01pm

Or are counting on the gawkers to not have done their homework.

**allenhopkins** · May-30-2013, 4:12pm

On the eBay listing: what kinda "buy it now" price is $2,857.70 ? Not $2,900, or even $2,850, but $2,857.70 ?

I realize that they took a round number and reduced it by a percentage to make sale more likely (not that it's gonna work), but you'd think they might have rounded off the amount.

**vegas** · May-30-2013, 5:10pm

Originally Posted by allenhopkins

On the eBay listing: what kinda "buy it now" price is $2,857.70 ? Not $2,900, or even $2,850, but $2,857.70 ?

I realize that they took a round number and reduced it by a percentage to make sale more likely (not that it's gonna work), but you'd think they might have rounded off the amount.

Yeah, I thought that was odd as well. If you look at their other items, they are similarly priced with odd amounts of change in those columns. It must be a pricing strategy for marketing reasons somebody came up with.

**Jim Garber** · May-30-2013, 10:26pm

BTW do not write to this Maurer seller telling them that their starting bid is way off base. I stupidly did that and it pissed them off. The nerve of me!

**brunello97** · May-30-2013, 10:40pm

Originally Posted by Jim Garber

BTW do not write to this Maurer seller telling them that their starting bid is way off base. I stupidly did that and it pissed them off. The nerve of me!

I think he knocked $687.50 off the price because the tailpiece cover is missing, aka "long gone."

Mick

**sunburst** · May-30-2013, 11:08pm

"fossilized mammoth (ivXXy)"...
That's fossilized male Bos taurus fecal matter...

**journeybear** · May-30-2013, 11:24pm

Or, in other words ...

Allen, what gets me is not only the arrived-at price, with the 18% discount, but also the starting price, from which they discounted 18%. Neither of those are what I would call round figures.

**vegas** · May-30-2013, 11:27pm

Originally Posted by Jim Garber

BTW do not write to this Maurer seller telling them that their starting bid is way off base. I stupidly did that and it pissed them off. The nerve of me!

Why would you listen to someone who knew more about something than you? I remember telling an antiques dealer the fly rod she was selling was not cane, it was fiberglass and she just about came unglued that I would dare disagree with "an experienced seller of antiques"? I told her I was an experienced fly fisherman and knew cane from fiberglass. It didn't change her mind and either she died with that in her shop or somebody who knew even less bought it.

**sunburst** · May-30-2013, 11:29pm

Originally Posted by journeybear

Or, in other words ...

Nah, not even that. The Larsons did have some of the nicest ivoroid I've seen, though.

**Bertram Henze** · May-31-2013, 2:09am

Originally Posted by allenhopkins

On the eBay listing: what kinda "buy it now" price is $2,857.70 ? Not $2,900, or even $2,850, but $2,857.70 ?

Douglas Adams would have the answer: The probability of someone buying this is 285770 to one against.

**JEStanek** · May-31-2013, 9:26am

I suspect he has a bill for $2857.70 stuck on his fridge by an Inspirational Magnet. "Price it and they will come...."

I'm tempted to submit an insultingly low offer...

Jamie

**Gary Hedrick** · May-31-2013, 9:31am

perhaps this should be a regular Cafe feature?

**Jim Garber** · May-31-2013, 9:41am

Originally Posted by JEStanek

I'm tempted to submit an insultingly low offer...

Hah! That would be great. If I did it he would report me to the eBay police.

Originally Posted by Gary Hedrick

perhaps this should be a regular Cafe feature?

I like that! I am sure there are a few more Duane Eddy mandolins out there.

**Steve Ostrander** · May-31-2013, 10:11am

On the eBay listing: what kinda "buy it now" price is $2,857.70 ? Not $2,900, or even $2,850, but $2,857.70 ?

He's only off by a factor of ten. Maybe he put the decimal in the wrong place?

**vegas** · May-31-2013, 3:55pm

Originally Posted by Jim Garber

Hah! That would be great. If I did it he would report me to the eBay police.

I like that! I am sure there are a few more Duane Eddy mandolins out there.

Ditto!

**Charles E.** · May-31-2013, 6:47pm

I'll see your Mauer and raise you a Martin tenor.......

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1928-Martin-...2a#ht_44wt_917

**CES** · May-31-2013, 8:18pm

Originally Posted by Charles E.

I'll see your Mauer and raise you a Martin tenor.......

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1928-Martin-...2a#ht_44wt_917

Ok, you win...even if the entire Kingston Trio Played it, that is effin ridiculous on that tenor!!

**Jim Garber** · Jun-01-2013, 10:46pm

Charley... they do offer free shipping!!

**Jim Garber** · Jun-01-2013, 10:52pm

I am not sure if this falls into this same category...

Loar era bridge for $2k.

**houseworker** · Jun-02-2013, 3:46am

Ah, that 'Loar' bridge, eBay's longest-running listing perhaps. I know the seller received at least one offer.

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**Pasha Alden** · Jun-02-2013, 4:55am

To Jim Garber: let's be glad that if he must report you that it is only e-bay police and not the thought police. As people seem to have rather fixed ideas on whatever it is that they are trying to sell? Even at such odd prices. Maybe as someone looking for a second mandolin I could dare to put in that bid. I mean what am I? A newby mando player from darkest Africa? what would I possibly know about mandolins? <big grin>
You see then I cannot be reported to the e-bay police? <even bigger grin>

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