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.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
For this blog post I wanted to see what were the Top-5 items from the WWII collectibles Category on eBay last week. Its really amazing to see the variety that these items represent. The top selling item was an Italian dagger that had almost nothing for a description and even was misspelled! The ringer in the group was the WW2 Ace collection that contains tons of memorabilia from a Naval aviator. One interesting thing about this top selling list is that only one item saw much competitive bidding. Most of the items led in with a high minimum bid and one was a buy-it-now purchase.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
If you read the headlines you'll know that pundits are calling for a slow recovery from the current economic slump during 2010. For those of you who are die hard collectors you might be curious to know if there was a genuine recession in the hobby as well. Well in this post I am going to show you some graphs that might just answer that question. I invite you to use the comment box below to share what your opinions are regarding this data. Each blip on the 1 year and 2 year charts represent a week (7 days).
Total Listings in the WWII Original Period Items Category 30 Days Ending Dec 31
Total Listings in the WWII Original Period Items Category - 2009 Total
Total Listings in the WWII Original Period Items Category - 2 Year Total
Total Sales in the WWII Original Period Items Category 30 Days Ending Dec 31
Total Sales in the WWII Original Period Items Category - 2009 Total
Total Sales in the WWII Original Period Items Category - 2 Year Total
