low prices on ebay tonight

is there some sort of bank holiday in italy this weekend?
only because prices very low,

i myself was selling some teams tonight and here were the results:-

ref 76 in ref box - £8.75
ref 77 in ref box - £8
ref 138 - £17
ref 154 on dark blue bases £7.50

ok yes i also sold a 147 for £166 and a 143 for £63 but i also picked up some bargains for cheaper/common end of the market.

how bizarre!!

jon

subbuteo forever 207 wrote:

is there some sort of bank holiday in italy this weekend?
only because prices very low,

i myself was selling some teams tonight and here were the results:-

ref 76 in ref box - £8.75
ref 77 in ref box - £8
ref 138 - £17
ref 154 on dark blue bases £7.50

ok yes i also sold a 147 for £166 and a 143 for £63 but i also picked up some bargains for cheaper/common end of the market.

how bizarre!!

jon

I think prices seem generally lower at the moment, definitely at the lower end. A couple of years ago you were lucky to get anything under £15-£20 that didn't have reglues. Maybe partly the recession, last week i got a complete 1981 Panini album in perfect condition plus an incomplete 1982 for £16.

yeas its certainly true that commmon stuff and even middling stuff has come down in price but under a tenner? thats bonkers.
and a 138 for under £20 is low

Did you have many watchers? I'm sure somebody is cursing they didn't bid seeing them go for those amounts.

i have noticed the same things as well Jon
last week i sold the following
41 for £8.25
156 for £9.50 which had a stamped ref on it
154 for £13

Jon i also sold a 138 for exactly £17 so must be the current going rate

spurs1975 wrote:

i have noticed the same things as well Jon
last week i sold the following
41 for £8.25
156 for £9.50 which had a stamped ref on it
154 for £13

Jon i also sold a 138 for exactly £17 so must be the current going rate

It's definitely not a good time for selling (say I who have a substantial crop of teams coming through tonight, including some rare references )! I'll be out of the house when they come through, so won't feel the pain until later

For a HW138 to go for less than £20 is plain wrong.

I have been starting all my references at £4.99, though within tonight's batch I have used the start price of £14.99 for the more common teams. If they sell, they sell, if not ...... there's tomorrow

Bargains are definitely there to be had, but given the prices that modern replica teams go for, surely an original HW Team in its original (sometimes stickered) box, with no breaks and minimal paintwear is worth at least £14.99 - even at the 'common' end of the scale?!

subbuteo forever 207 wrote:

i also sold a 147 for £166 and a 143 for £63 but i also picked up some bargains for cheaper/common end of the market.

Given the fact that the HW147 is one of the most rare teams in the sequence of French teams around it (possibly second only to HW144), I would be expecting at least £150 for it.

Was this the one you purchased at the Fair last week? If so, it looked in mint condition - and deserved to attract a queue of serious bidders.

no ian i kept that one.
the one i sold was the one i bought from mike peacock.
both were damn good but the one from the NEC was marginally better paintwork

the 143 was the one i bought from you with the painted(?) over two bars on the back in the delacoste box?remember it?

antonio from andover bought both of them. i wonder if jim knows him.

i started my cheapie's on £4.99 ian!

any theories why the market has dipped so much last week or so.

eg,

154 with dark blue bases last night - £7.50
same team same bases sold two weeks ago - £22

i start my auctions at £4.99 as well
i think i might follow Ian`s option of £14.99 starting price, so if a common ref sell`s for that at least i would feel like i have not given the team away

I was suprised to get that 92 for 83 quid ian
Jon

Sure lee but problem is at the moment is chances are it just wouldn't sell.

subbuteo forever 207 wrote:

Sure lee but problem is at the moment is chances are it just wouldn't sell.

your probably right Jon
i think i will hold of selling anymore on ebay till late august/september
hopefully everyone will have had their holidays and be looking at buying again

subbuteo forever 207 wrote:

I was suprised to get that 92 for 83 quid ian
Jon

Sold a reffed HW94 recently for small-ish money too.

An indicator that there are still guys coming into HW Collecting for the first time, and don't know what's really valuable and what's not.

The HW92 is excellent - well done!

thanks ian.
the one i had i got in a job lot and have had for for a couple of years thinking it kosher.
only when i got the magnifying glass on it for the first time recently i could see feint painted numbers under the back of the shirts colour blue!argh!!doh!

thankfully it didnt cost me the usual arm and a leg as it came in a lot but even so i did have to have a sit down and a cup of tea!

lee - i reckon with common teams in good nick there is more value potentially in only doing face to face sales. ie, on ebay sometimes you cannot see how good a condition a team/box is and therefore its true worth cannot be realised. face to face may earn you more for good nick common stuff.
just a thought.

subbuteo forever 207 wrote:

no ian i kept that one.
the one i sold was the one i bought from mike peacock.
both were damn good but the one from the NEC was marginally better paintwork

the 143 was the one i bought from you with the painted(?) over two bars on the back in the delacoste box?remember it?

antonio from andover bought both of them. i wonder if jim knows him.

i started my cheapie's on £4.99 ian!

I know Dee said last week that she was told in the post office that someone else posted Subbuteo teams. Might be the same person Jon...

could be.
seems like a decent chap.

so jr gets £17 for a 138 and ian brown - £103!!!!

now i know - ians photos,ebay variation,maybe ref sticker but hey that is an extreme difference is it not?

I stuck a ref 138 on tonight before reading this. Mines referenced but with numbers on the back. Anyone's guess...

numbers on the back of course will have an impact but be interested to see if you get more than £17!!