nor sure I follow that? free advertising? showing the world that all his products are overpriced is kind of ridiculous to me
Implicit in what I said is that a deal will be done off eBay for a much lower price, and avoiding eBay completion fees. Sorry, I should have stated that explicitly.
Does that make it any more understandable to you?
*** edit *** it used to be easier to gather evidence (not proof, but good evidence) that a given seller had a very high level of no sales relative the numbers of auctions listed. But I can't seem to find the 3rd party tool which did that just now. But I did have a look at feedback for this seller kikoka, and you can see mostly items which are $30 and under. It is interesting to see a pattern where a seller completes many sales within eBay for many cheaper items and has just the occasional very expensive (some might say overpriced -- which isn't exactly the same thing) item completed. The missing part of the puzzle is knowing how many expensive items they list which seldom seem to sell within eBay. Some are relisted over and over but eventually disappear but aren't sold. Sometimes they are marked "no longer available", other times they are a somewhat questionable "removed because of an error in the listing".
I know about these patterns with a few sellers because of my years of monitoring Paiste 602/Sound Creation sales. Over time eBay has made it harder and harder to get good information, but in the earlier days much more detail was available.
