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WWII Bidding Wars – 50 or More Qualify

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

What you usually find in a bidding war that pushes over 50 bids is that there is a lot of incremental action going on.  These are auctions that are not won by snipers.  They have somebody sitting at their computer trying to top the other guy out $5 at a time.  That would certainly appear to be the case with some of these auctions which I spotted on eBay.  All of these auctions sold for more than $100 with one of them going for more than $800.  Can you figure out which one?

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Bids eBay Item Title - Link to Auction Image Link
74 Cold War Era Russian KGB Lt. Col. Complete Uniform Set
55 WW2 BLACK LEATHER FIGHTER PILOT JACKET / MINT
52 Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Art Print signed by 26 Raiders
52 REAL 100% ORIGINAL WH HELMET SIZE 66 M42 COMBAT WORN
51 WW2 Japanese Navy Photographic Album.63Photos Very Good

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Bidding Wars – 50 Or More Gets The Prize

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

A different look on WWII memorabilia on eBay is to look and see which auctions sparked some flat out bidding wars.  All of these auctions had a minimum bid of less than $100.  They also brought in more than 50 bids in very competitive auctions.  'Seasoned collectors will have no problem guessing which one of these items soared all the way from $99 to a final bid of $6800 .

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Bids eBay Item Title - Link to Auction Image Link
59 Orig WWII US ARMY Air Force CRUSHER Officer Hat Cap
56 German / Czech WW2 WWII Very Rare Dot42 Dot 42 Bayonet
53 RARE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS POCKET KNIFE
51 *VERY RARE* WW2 RICHTIG FIGHTING KNIFE

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This Week’s Best WWII Auctions!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Sometimes reading all the way through the questions section of an auction provides such a treat.  Such is the case with the top selling item last week on eBay - the paratrooper trousers.  If you follow the link below you can see that the seller was offered $4500 to shut the auction down early.  Luckily for himself and the rest of us he shunned that offer and let it roll.  And roll it did - with 4 different bidders offering over $10,000 for the auction.  You'll have to click over to see the final price.  The other auctions below round out the Top-5 list from the last week in World War II on eBay.

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Bids eBay Item Title - Link to Auction Image Link
31 M42 Airborne Paratrooper Jump Trousers Rigger Modified
23 *ULTRA RARE "1ST PATTERN F&S" FAIRBAIRN SYKES KNIFE!*
27 WW2 A-2 flight jacket-ROUGH WEAR-1942-SIZE-40
15 Original WW2 A-2 flight jacket Aero 16160 US Pre War
15 STUNNING RARE POLISH PRE WW2 CAVALRY UNIFORM!

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Groupings aka Highest Bidder Gets it All!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

One of the types of auctions that I love to see in the Hot Finds are large collections sometimes called groupings by sellers.  You usually see very competitive bidding in these listings as the typical minimum bid is much less then the eventual sales price.  Click on these completed auctions from the last month to see the best of the best that sold.

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Bids eBay Item Title - Link to Auction Image Link
11 HUGE HISTORIC WW2 FLIGHT JACKET GROUPING A-2 B-3 + MORE
15 WWII US 11th Airborne Group with Jump Jacket
15 Original WWII 82nd Airborne Division Uniform Grouping
21 WWII UNIFORM / MEDAL ETC GROUPING 501ST PIR PARATROOPER
1 D Day Holland C-47 Airborne Pilot Group Maps Patches +

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Best Selling WWII Items from the Last Month!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Here are the Top-5 selling items from the last thirty days on eBay. So how many times can you (or anybody) say they've seen an auction go from $1 to $12,000 in the span of a 7-day auction?  One of the Top 5 items below actually did that.  The flip side is I also have an item that was listed at $20,000 but sold for about 1/3 of that using the BIN "best offer" option.  In this grouping you can also find a .99 cent auction that cracked the $5k mark thanks to a pair of snipes.

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Bids eBay Item Title - Link to Auction Image Link
1 ZEISS GERMAN KRIEGSMARINE 8X60 BLC U BOAT BINOCULARS
1 RARE! WWII OSS/CIA Suitcase Radio Serial #86
1 ORIGINAL WW2 US Case V42 FIGHTING SPECIAL FORCES KNIFE
21 ORIGINAL USSR SET SOVIET ORDER OF GLORY I, II III CLASS
1 BSA PARATROOPERS FOLDING BICYCLE PARABIKE WW2 BRITISH

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