Posted by David Sherman on Friday, May 26, 2006 at 12:26PM :
In Reply to: Re: I have watched them go high....$$ posted by AAA on Friday, May 26, 2006 at 10:20AM :
Yes, I've seen absolutely insane prices on some GL stuff. Even if they use shill bidders, there has to be one real sucker to bid against them. It's also interesting to see when expensive stuff doesn't get picked up. You can't tell from the website, but if you're in the habit of going to the DRMO in person, you sometimes see stuff that the buyer defaulted on. Is that because the buyer realized they'd paid way too much or is it because the shill accidentally "won"? Since, unlike the DRMOs, GL won't give you the names of the high bidders (another pet peeve of mine, since it makes it impossible to get that one thing I wanted out of a lot somebody else bought) there's no way to tell if the winner was a real surplus dealer, a private party, a newbee, or...?