HYEE up and running on ebay

thecatspajamas · #1 05-16-2013, 10:01 PM

For one thing, most of the BINers are selling their own stuff...

Regardless, thanks for the heads up on Yee's latest auction. Always a pleasure to window shop

Duluth Eskimo · #2 05-18-2013, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

For one thing, most of the BINers are selling their own stuff...

Regardless, thanks for the heads up on Yee's latest auction. Always a pleasure to window shop

I don't think they are interested in bringing any common sense to their logic. It's pretty easy to sell another persons items for whatever they end at. Not trying to discount Hyee auctions as they have very fine items with high quality images, I am speaking in general.

mjkm90 · #3 05-19-2013, 04:57 AM

Easy, but particularly effective. He always seems to get top $$$ by attracting a high # of bidders and the low starting price contributes largely to that interest.

slidekellyslide · #4 05-19-2013, 07:57 AM

The low starting price saves him money...he's saving 15 cents per listing by starting them at 99 cents instead of $9.99. He knows with his clientele that every single item is going to sell and it's going to sell well so why not save some money. Jonsstats does this too...smart businessmen.

thecatspajamas · #5 05-19-2013, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

He knows ... that every single item is going to sell.

I think that's the key. The saving money on listing fees might have been a factor before as well, but since May 1, it costs the same to list a 99-cent item as it does a $99k item at auction. Also, since Yee adds a subtitle for all or nearly all of his auction listings (which costs more than the listing itself, despite subtitles not being searchable), I don't think up-front listing fees are so much of a factor compared to the problem of having "leftovers" when you only run 3-4 auctions a year. Easier to list everything at a price guaranteed to sell, clean house, then start over for the next auction.

71buc · #6 05-20-2013, 01:29 AM

I have always looked forward to Yee's auctions. I dabble in vintage baseball photos compared to many others here my photo collection is very pedestrian. Nonetheless, I enjoy window shopping Yee's offerings despite never being a realistic threat to land a significant photo. However, I must admit that I find a number of his current items a bit macabre. Do others truly collect images depicting crime scenes, birth defects,survivors of the holocaust, and burn victims from Hiroshima? I have to admit that such items have served to dampen my zeal as I search through this current auction. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive or conservative but I find such things to be in poor taste and offensive. I think I will stick with innocuous pretty baseball pictures. Thankfully he still has a nice selection of those.

drc · #7 05-20-2013, 01:42 AM

I authenticated the Bonnie and Clyde autopsy photos for an auction house. Graphic. The auction house didn't tell me the contents of the photos beforehand.

They later sent me a particularly gruesome morgue photo of JFK, with a large portion of the skull loose. That one was pretty rough.

I wasn't morally offended by them, as they were historical topics, plus it's not up to me to tell others what to collect. I would have no interest in purchasing them.

Browsing Henry's auction, I think many of the war photos are quite powerful. War isn't pretty.

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