Tuesday, February 9, 2010
If you look at the WWII category you will see that German memorabilia is the second most popular in terms of how much is listed for sale. In that niche you always see such a variety of items for sale. That fact is demonstrated in this post on the four top selling items from recent sales on eBay. The German officer's sword had the most competitive bidding with over 28 bids topping $1,000+. The closing hours saw two bidders willing to drive the price over $1K. Perhaps its ironic that on this top selling list I included a German sniper scope. I say that because it was a sniper that came in with just three seconds left and stole the officer's sword with a strong last second bid.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
The end of 2009 in the German subcategory of WWII collectibles finished with a nice mix of items finding new homes in spirited bidding. The two top selling items really turned into bidding wars that are interesting to look at. The German rifle scope was a long 10-day auction that saw 9 different bidders get into the game. Once the bidding eclipsed $3k there were only a pair of bidders still swinging away. In fact during the last few hours of the auction these two slugged back and forth trading almost thirty bids between them until the last ten minutes when the high bidder looked comfortably in the lead. But as often happens on eBay a new bidder snipped in with 59 seconds to go and stole the prize. In the bidding for the Luftwaffe jacket again it came down to two bidders who were willing to push over $3k. However, this time there was no sniper waiting in the bushes and the winning bidder took the prize. However, you can tell he was nervous because he placed three insurance bids (raising his max) in the span of three minutes towards the end.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Bidding wars that is. I searched the German subcategory of WWII on eBay and was looking for items that attracted a lot of bidding. The top two items I dug up are good case examples of how interesting bidding patterns can be on prized collectibles. In the case of the rifle scope one of the losing bidders was a real cheapskate! He came up against a high bid and tried 39 times to dink his bid just above that previously placed bid. At first he tried increments of $2 and then he got brave and started putting in bid increments of $5. After entering over three-dozen bids in this manner he gave up. The auction also saw two snipes come in during the last ninety seconds but they didn't have enough firepower to win. The winning bidder had placed his bid a comfortable nine hours before the close and it held off all challengers. In the case of the helment engraving the action took place near the end. In the last hour there were 8 bids from 4 different bidders. However, this item had a reserve price and that marker was finally met with about 35 minutes to go. The winning bidder even entered another higher bid for insurance but it was not needed as he was the only person willing to go above the reserve price. These five that I've picked represent a sample of the interesting bidding wars that have taken place recently in the WWII category.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
If you look in the German subcategory of WWII on eBay you will find that "Personal, Field Gear" is the 2nd most popular area to list items next to photographs. Some of these items can be very intriguing so I decided to search and find what were the top selling items in that niche.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
If you really want to see the variety of items listed in the WWII category of eBay look no further than uniforms. I searched through closed listings to find the top selling uniforms recently on eBay and came back with examples from several countries. The classic American bomber jackets showed up of course but so did neat dress uniforms as well. Click the link to see more about each of these great finds.
