slowcowboy wrote:happy camper. I reallly really really should not give you the time of day but you did throw the glove down in my face. heres a beatiful answer to that glove you trowed down for the 2 time in 2 days.
ebay is very simaler to online farm auctions. they have the same trends on the buying and the same amount of bussness. Nebraska farmers spending 30,000 dollars for a over priced grain truck 20 years old is not diffrent that japannese on ebay paying 65 to 70 for a coleman lantern.
LOL. Lets see, on January 12th, 2011,
bigiron.com had 387 auctions; in 2009, the latest figures available from eBay,
the 90 million global eBay users total worth of goods sold on eBay was $60 billion -- $2,000 every second. So until those Japanese collectors buy
2,000,000 grain trucks @
$30,000 each this year, the two sites are
NOTHING alike!
slowcowboy wrote:big iron is a lot diffrent than broke farmers. agriculture in the united states that raise your food you buy in the grocery stores is a multi- billlon dollars industry and right now in the recessson is the only thing makeing money and is have no problem with the recesson.
And as those food (and energy) prices continue to rise, they drain even more disposable income from consumer's pocketbooks. Careful what you wish for, I think it's called inflation. As important as agriculture is (I like to eat too), it accounts for less than 1.5% of the United States GDP.
slowcowboy wrote:the illsuration photo of compareing big iron to ebay is I have noticed since christamas on the 2 week apart online farm auctions a dramatic increase in what people are paying to get something that like ebay is not worth that kinda of money. Maybee though with big iron its the fact the corn farmers in the mid west had like the beef industy a record setting prices they got for the crop.
I don't know I just was comparing the same trend as I see in ebay to coleman stuff that HAS since christmas taken a major leap in price. maybee this is just the dramatic increase in the price of desil or gasoline that is driving shipping and freight cost up. who knows.
The very nature of "worth" is subjective. To you, something may not be "worth that kind of money"; to someone else it is indispensible,
and they're willing to pay the price (see below).
slowcowboy wrote:I still trade on ebay and still like the site. I still trade on big iron. I just have made enough deals for my pocket book this year that I would rather wait on big iron till septimber when things get cheaper due to crops and end of season. Ebay is a lot harder to predict. but I see trends on it too.
give some time more high gas prices economy and the colemans might cheapen up on ebay in the future. I been ebay since 04 and am very well familer with it. I do a lot of trading on it.
Gee, I hope you're correct in all
your assumptions. If not, you'll look back at those $65 and $70 Coleman lanterns the Japanese collectors are buying now as a real steal.
Finally, I want to make it clear I'm not throwing a glove, a gauntlet or gooseberries at you or your face.
Relax....this is
big campfire with wide and varied opinions....
take a breath....look at the
other side of the coin.
