Watches On Ebay
There have been more than three hundred thousand auctions recently for watches on eBay. People apparently love watches. I have never really had a need for watches and never wear one.
The two highest auctions for watches both closed at the same price, $131,100.00. One of the auctions for watches that closed with an actual bidder was for an antique. Antique watches can fetch a great price. This particular watch was 14kt yellow gold with diamonds in a ladies’ style.
The other one of the auctions for watches was for an antique white gold watch with 71 diamonds. It was really a lovely, feminine piece. I don’t think that the buyer actually paid for the item since they are no longer a registered user of eBay.
I can imagine that it is very frustrating when you are trying to auction watches and some loser finds your auction and outbids people that would have actually paid you. The same bidder won both of those $131,100.00 auctions for watches from the same seller.
I don’t sell things like expensive watches, but I have sold items on eBay before. I think that if I incurred the kind of fees that Empire Jewelers pays for listing an auction, I would care a lot. Watches look to me to be an item that would have a high instance of people that have no intention of paying bidding on items.
When I check back through the history of auctions for watches, I find that the most expensive listing recently was a diamond watch. The seller of the diamond watch was in Brighton, United Kingdom. He set the starting price for his watch at 2.6 million pounds which is just fewer than 5 million United States dollars.
Of all of the auctions for watches, the one from the United Kingdom was far and away the very most expensive. It didn’t get a bidder. The next watch auction on the list when sorted by price was three hundred thousand dollars. This was a Rolex in New York. It also did not get a bid.
When I sort the completed auctions for watches on eBay with the lowest price first, the cheapest watch sold on eBay recently turns out to be a watch that sold for one penny and had a twenty dollar shipping charge. This is blatant fee avoidance, but with the fees that eBay charges, I can’t blame them at all.
