Pricing question

[flipdat]

i agree. that sound like a good ebay estimate. =]

[flipdat]

So... i have the complete Prancing Parade Ponies set. I mean complete with all of the fabrics and everything. won it from another ebayer and spent about $7 on it which includes the shipping.

littlestpetshop.50webs.com/sparklingponypairs.htm

hahah, i tried to get the shipping to get a little bit lower, but later i felt bad because the seller was really nice and was really trying to work with me and i think it got a little confusing for her. anyway, Should i start it at .99 and expect it to go up to or over $7, or should i start it at $7 to be on the safe side, so that i can at least make my money back. what do you girls think? especially sellers who have been selling for awhile. =] and yes, i did buy this item so that i can make extra money. =[

[~Misty~GSXR~]

I started mine all at .99 and they ended at like $10-30 each for the most part, I think it might be a bad idea to do the pony sets right now though... mine is doing ok and my crystal pony has no bids, and the plagiarism jerk just put a lot of ponies up =/

maybe make a buy it now of a higher price? i imagine the set should be worth a decent bit because it has all the fabrics and stuff which i think are probably normally lost very easily... i don't know for sure because i don't collect the ponies though...

[flipdat]

i saw that! i know that they copied some of the twinkling sled description from CanineLuv also. hahahah. i could tell from the font. You guys did all the work for them!

yeah, i don't think ponies usually sell for much, but then i haven't seen a complete set of any of the ponies with all of the fabrics. i think they were just the ones with the fence pieces n such that i've seen on ebay. hmmm. i guess i'll wait it out for another couple days or weeks or so. we'll see. Thanks for your feedback, Misty. =]

[lifeliver]

My last complete prancing ponies set I sold went for about $16.00. Unfortunately the horse and pony sets are not as sought after unless they are the very rare ones. (filly and a couple others.) But it sounds like you guys are already aware of that.

I never have good luck with horse sets, only if in BIG lots with near complete pieces, otherwise not so much.
Hopefully you'll have better luck...

Yeah, that seller...haha....

[flipdat]

Speaking of that listing of plagiarism, I noticed that the listing changed and i remembered that there were bidders to that lot, then i realized ebay must have pulled the listing. She wrote this in her new relisted listing:

"So sorry for the ones bidding on this lot someone got mad at me for cutting and pasting and I am still new to selling on e-bay. I did not think they would mind because there auction was ending I was wrong!! I tried to put this up again as soon as I could."

awww man, i feel bad now. =[ i guess there's an explanation for everything, ya know. ;]

[lifeliver]

oops! I actually did not mind too much, people do that on ebay all the time. They even use my pictures sometimes too.

Happy New Year all!

[flipdat]

it's a form of flattery i guess. =] hopefully if they use your pictures, they are at least mentioning in the listing that the items pictured are not their exact items. =]

Thanks again for the feedback girls. =]

[~Misty~GSXR~]

Actually its against ebay policy to steal other people's auctions, and I DID mind because it took me like 20 minutes to type all that junk out, and not only did she steal my text, she put up 2 lots very similar to my pony and seaworld lots before mine ended. so I emailed ebay and they removed it. not fast enough though.

I still made out like a bandit on all those sets. $183 before taking out the shipping costs. Thats more than double what I paid for the entire lot, only sold half. I can't wait for some new lots to go up.