A brand new experience for me...

[flexagon]

The item I'm selling on ebay has actually bid up to almost double its starting price... and there's still 1 hr 5 mins left to go.

Comments

What are you selling?

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

Can you tell?

Re: What are you selling?

[flexagon]

Pente board. It started at $10 and sold for $18.27. Yes, I understand that getting all excited over $8.27 is a bit off, but dammit, I made something and the market wanted it and this is good. :)

Re: What are you selling?

[webrat.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool. Hey, profit is profit. Now you just need to find a way to crank out Pente boards by figuring out how to save money on material. :) I'm guessing you already have that down though since I do recall you put some thought into this. This is just your test market right?

What I would recommend is setting the starting bid for $20.00 next time and see if that sells. I bet it would and if it doesn't then you know, $15 (the middle price) is roughly the best you're going to get.

Re: What are you selling?

[flexagon]

Well, not really; I only have leather enough for 2 more boards (the squares are cut out, I just have to draw the board markings on with a Sharpie). All this came about because I wanted one for me, but had to buy enough leather for four boards. It cost $30, so if I can make $30 back off the three extra boards (plus the scraps), that'll be it for this particular venture. $18 down, $12 to go.

I was thinking of trying to get stones at an aquarium store so I can market the next one as a complete game... I think that might get me disproportionally higher bids. We'll see.