Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Its never too hard to find Japanese swords selling on eBay for more than $1k. Just so happens that last week there were more than five that surpassed that high water mark. The other thing that is interesting about this group is that save for one - all had really competitive bidding.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Its pretty unusual to see an auction take 21 bids to finally reach the reserve and for that to be the exact selling price thanks to a snipe. However, that unlikely scenario describes the theater made 509th patch which was the best patch to sell on WWII eBay over the last couple of weeks. For my money I probably would have gone after the Deathheads squadron patch just because its too cool. The rest of the Top-5 is pretty diverse - everything from a plastic Polish badge to a ridiculously large mixed lot.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
In putting together this Top-5 list I had to cut out items that also ranked in the Top-5 for the entire WWII category. Using those guidelines you can still find 5 items that sold last week in the United States subcategory that scored over $1,500 in bidding on eBay. The lead-off man is an A-2 jacket in excellent shape. The pilot spent some time in the China/Burma theater based on the seller description. But the real interesting sale was the M3 knife. This auction was sitting at $1,000 with thirty seconds to go when things got crazy. Within the last 1/2 minute of the auction sniper bids came in from 8(!) different bidders which doubled the sale price and landed this as the #2 item on this list. The USMC pin proved that its always good to have an insurance bid coming in over the top. The winning bidder was sitting pretty when a sniper bid came in $750 above his bid. However, following the old Scout adage to "Be Prepared" he had his own snipe locked and loaded that carried the day.
