Prewarsports - enough already!

[prewarsports]

Not going to spend any time on this, all I will say is I DO sell a lot, but will freely admit that if I hired an emplyee I could adjust old stuff a little better. I sell "old stuff" every day though and people make offers and if its been sitting long I always take less so while some may disagree with my business model, I am NOT a "blow it all out at all costs" seller and would rather not sell something than sell it for a fraction of its value. Every successful business model has some people who will disagree with what you do, in all walks of life. The fact that I am successful enough to have a whole thread dedicated to my business practices (without once questioning ethics) means I am doing something right.

As a side note, I have NO (ZERO) enemies in this hobby and I think if anyone has a problem with me, they just dont know me. I donate stuff everyday to museums and institutions and give stuff away for free to relatives and descendants and will always help anybody in this hobby at any time and never charge for it. Finding good homes for the items I have is very important to me as well.

Having said all that, I will make this blanket statement and hold firm to it.

I WILL GIVE A 15% DISCOUNT (OR MORE) TO ANY FORUM MEMBER AT ANY TIME ON ANY ITEM I HAVE ON EBAY!

Fact of the matter is, I could go to a nice car dealership at the end of any calendar year and write a check for mid-sized sedan and it would be LESS than my ebay/paypal fees every year, and those are not the insertion fees that are killing me. It costs a HUGE amount of money to sell things on ebay and as a seller you absolutely have to factor that into your costs or you are dead. I would MUCH RATHER sell something to a forum member at a 20% discount than sell it for full value on ebay and watch them take their cut.

If anyone ever has an issue with anything I have, or a question please e mail me.


Thats all I am going to say, and I recognize that you cant please everyone all the time, but I really do my best

Rhys

[horzverti]

Originally Posted by prewarsports

Not going to spend any time on this, all I will say is I DO sell a lot, but will freely admit that if I hired an emplyee I could adjust old stuff a little better. I sell "old stuff" every day though and people make offers and if its been sitting long I always take less so while some may disagree with my business model, I am NOT a "blow it all out at all costs" seller and would rather not sell something than sell it for a fraction of its value. Every successful business model has some people who will disagree with what you do, in all walks of life. The fact that I am successful enough to have a whole thread dedicated to my business practices (without once questioning ethics) means I am doing something right.

As a side note, I have NO (ZERO) enemies in this hobby and I think if anyone has a problem with me, they just dont know me. I donate stuff everyday to museums and institutions and give stuff away for free to relatives and descendants and will always help anybody in this hobby at any time and never charge for it. Finding good homes for the items I have is very important to me as well.

Having said all that, I will make this blanket statement and hold firm to it.

I WILL GIVE A 15% DISCOUNT (OR MORE) TO ANY FORUM MEMBER AT ANY TIME ON ANY ITEM I HAVE ON EBAY!

Fact of the matter is, I could go to a nice car dealership at the end of any calendar year and write a check for mid-sized sedan and it would be LESS than my ebay/paypal fees every year, and those are not the insertion fees that are killing me. It costs a HUGE amount of money to sell things on ebay and as a seller you absolutely have to factor that into your costs or you are dead. I would MUCH RATHER sell something to a forum member at a 20% discount than sell it for full value on ebay and watch them take their cut.

If anyone ever has an issue with anything I have, or a question please e mail me.


Thats all I am going to say, and I recognize that you cant please everyone all the time, but I really do my best

Rhys

You are correct Rhys, you can't please everyone...but I have been pleased with the photos that I have purchased from you. I am only one buyer, but it seems that you have A LOT of people in your corner. I look forward to checking out your area at the Chicago National later this summer...so don't sell everything between now and then!

Curt

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by prewarsports

Not going to spend any time on this, all I will say is I DO sell a lot, but will freely admit that if I hired an emplyee I could adjust old stuff a little better. I sell "old stuff" every day though and people make offers and if its been sitting long I always take less so while some may disagree with my business model, I am NOT a "blow it all out at all costs" seller and would rather not sell something than sell it for a fraction of its value. Every successful business model has some people who will disagree with what you do, in all walks of life. The fact that I am successful enough to have a whole thread dedicated to my business practices (without once questioning ethics) means I am doing something right.

As a side note, I have NO (ZERO) enemies in this hobby and I think if anyone has a problem with me, they just dont know me. I donate stuff everyday to museums and institutions and give stuff away for free to relatives and descendants and will always help anybody in this hobby at any time and never charge for it. Finding good homes for the items I have is very important to me as well.

Having said all that, I will make this blanket statement and hold firm to it.

I WILL GIVE A 15% DISCOUNT (OR MORE) TO ANY FORUM MEMBER AT ANY TIME ON ANY ITEM I HAVE ON EBAY!

Fact of the matter is, I could go to a nice car dealership at the end of any calendar year and write a check for mid-sized sedan and it would be LESS than my ebay/paypal fees every year, and those are not the insertion fees that are killing me. It costs a HUGE amount of money to sell things on ebay and as a seller you absolutely have to factor that into your costs or you are dead. I would MUCH RATHER sell something to a forum member at a 20% discount than sell it for full value on ebay and watch them take their cut.

If anyone ever has an issue with anything I have, or a question please e mail me.


Thats all I am going to say, and I recognize that you cant please everyone all the time, but I really do my best

Rhys

Ryys, I am the starter of this thread and could not argue with anything you have mentioned, well said indeed. Now do I get 25% discount for free advertising? jk.....take care!

[prewarsports]

I am a sucker for sob stories so just find something you want and spin me a sad tale about how it pictures your long lost grandfather and stuff like that and I would probably pay you to take it!

I probably would do 25% on most suff, I just dont want to say that and then be bound to it (I am a Lawyer as well so I cant go around making promises I cant keep in some instances). I am ALWAYS happy to discuss price on anything with anyone.

Rhys

[HRBAKER]

Rhys,

Well said, you have 2-3 photos I may be interested in.

Jeff

[Hankphenom]

Because I set up at shows with Kevin Keating, I have to listen to the "his prices are too high" complaint a lot. I think what I'm really hearing most of the time is "I wish I could afford something he has, but can't." We all wish prices were lower on the stuff we collect, but what's the use complaining about it? If the price is too high on something available elsewhere, just buy the other one. And if the price is too high on something not available elsewhere, how can you say it's too high? And, like Rhys, Kevin's inventory is too vast to go back and revise prices often. So he says, "Why don't they just make me an offer?"

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by prewarsports

I am a sucker for sob stories so just find something you want and spin me a sad tale about how it pictures your long lost grandfather and stuff like that and I would probably pay you to take it!

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Rhys

Rhys, I'm happy to say that I'm related to everyone in every photo you have for sale - for some you have to go back to Adam (please, forum Adam, don't slap me around for mentioning a figure from my religion), even if 'Adam' is just a metaphor for whatever state we were in when we moved from 'monkey' to 'pseudo-man'.

Scott <=== lots of relatives

[prewarsports]

I guess they're all yours, just need to see a full family tree!

Also, I only have about 10%-15% of my inventory on ebay so in order to save everyone lots of headaches on ebay in the future, pray I dont ever hire an employee or you guys can just clean me out at the National and then I can take the year off!

Rhys

[Runscott]

I am definitely bringing 'Rhys' money to the national this year.

[Ladder7]

Thankyou Paul for being a dick and getting us all a discount!

Incidentally, I've had a couple of great deals with Rhys over the years.