22 Feb 2007, 15:46
Dear collecting chums, Ive come into some criticism today from two led watch dealers for listing fifty commodore led watches on ebay all in one go and so I thought I would put into the open forum the reasons behind my decision to do this.
They say that this is foolish of me because I am ruining the mystique and rarity of leds.
I say rubbish , have you seen the pathetic price of vintage leds lately.
A few years ago there were lots more collector willing to buy led watches but this has dwindled over time. What we need is some heavy duty advertising, my main target market is the forty something guys who see leds and remember them from their youth. These guys aren’t going to suddenly remember led watches and go looking on ebay for them.
For this reason Ive listed a bulk purchase on the home page featured, now I don’t actually want to sell these IN BULK, but I do want to sell them individually in my shop, Ive done this purely for advertising, it cost £50 ($95) to use the featured and its got to be the cheapest advertising in the world, people trawl the 150 or so items on ebays home page when they are bored, a good amount of these will see the leds and then think, hey I remember those.
Im hoping we may get a few more collectors on the scene.
So far from trying to ruin the led market, this is an experiment to see if I can stir up a few more collectors, which will be an advantage to us all. Lets face it, at the moment you can buy a thirty year old led watch on ebay for about £15 ($30), that’s rubbish !! It costs me three times that much to fill my car with petrol, vintage prices have been hurt by all the new leds coming onto the market, people buy them and most are such junk that they never buy another led.
So far 330 people have viewed my eBay listing in less than two days, which has driven 66 people into my shop to see the individual watches, that’s a good result for led collectors everywhere because its raising the awareness of vintage led watches. In a week that listing will be right in the middle of the ebay.co.uk home page and visited by hundreds more people. I don’t want to sell those, they are purely for advertising, I want to raise awareness and bring in lots more interested people.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=190085074727
Sellers need not worry, I will not keep banging on if the experiment does not work, but Worldwide there are less than a couple of hundred ‘active’ led collectors and I think that anything we can do to improve on this the better, new leds have seriously knocked our marketplace and the value of our collections, we need more collectors – hundreds more – they are all out there, they had led watches in the 70’s we just need to remind them about the leds they had when they were young.
Your constructive comments good or bad would be valuable to me.
Phil
They say that this is foolish of me because I am ruining the mystique and rarity of leds.
I say rubbish , have you seen the pathetic price of vintage leds lately.
A few years ago there were lots more collector willing to buy led watches but this has dwindled over time. What we need is some heavy duty advertising, my main target market is the forty something guys who see leds and remember them from their youth. These guys aren’t going to suddenly remember led watches and go looking on ebay for them.
For this reason Ive listed a bulk purchase on the home page featured, now I don’t actually want to sell these IN BULK, but I do want to sell them individually in my shop, Ive done this purely for advertising, it cost £50 ($95) to use the featured and its got to be the cheapest advertising in the world, people trawl the 150 or so items on ebays home page when they are bored, a good amount of these will see the leds and then think, hey I remember those.
Im hoping we may get a few more collectors on the scene.
So far from trying to ruin the led market, this is an experiment to see if I can stir up a few more collectors, which will be an advantage to us all. Lets face it, at the moment you can buy a thirty year old led watch on ebay for about £15 ($30), that’s rubbish !! It costs me three times that much to fill my car with petrol, vintage prices have been hurt by all the new leds coming onto the market, people buy them and most are such junk that they never buy another led.
So far 330 people have viewed my eBay listing in less than two days, which has driven 66 people into my shop to see the individual watches, that’s a good result for led collectors everywhere because its raising the awareness of vintage led watches. In a week that listing will be right in the middle of the ebay.co.uk home page and visited by hundreds more people. I don’t want to sell those, they are purely for advertising, I want to raise awareness and bring in lots more interested people.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=190085074727
Sellers need not worry, I will not keep banging on if the experiment does not work, but Worldwide there are less than a couple of hundred ‘active’ led collectors and I think that anything we can do to improve on this the better, new leds have seriously knocked our marketplace and the value of our collections, we need more collectors – hundreds more – they are all out there, they had led watches in the 70’s we just need to remind them about the leds they had when they were young.
Your constructive comments good or bad would be valuable to me.
Phil
Last edited by leddwatch on 22 Feb 2007, 17:17, edited 1 time in total.
