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Title: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: hamfist on January 28, 2009, 07:14:38 AM
I've got a guitar on ebay at the moment which has amassed 42 watchers so far !!  That's a bit of a record for me (never even got into the 30's before).

What's the greatest number of watchers you've ever had on an item ?
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: Stevepage on January 28, 2009, 08:13:55 AM
I think mine was about 50 when I sold a Cornford Harlequin.
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: hamfist on January 28, 2009, 10:40:06 AM
I think mine was about 50 when I sold a Cornford Harlequin.

Impressive !    Was there a huge bidding frenzy in the dying minutes/seconds ?
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: mikeluke on January 28, 2009, 11:05:33 AM
Would that be that nice Tokai LP?

I am one of the watchers!
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: Stevepage on January 28, 2009, 11:22:17 AM
I think mine was about 50 when I sold a Cornford Harlequin.

Impressive !    Was there a huge bidding frenzy in the dying minutes/seconds ?

Surprisingly no,lol. I have no idea why, but there was only 7 bidders with a total of like 10 bids.
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: Jonny on January 28, 2009, 11:48:31 AM
I don't remember the one for my Trilogy, there where like over a dozen of them. Yet no one bid/bought it.
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: Spitfire on January 28, 2009, 12:52:33 PM
my SD set last week had over 30 watchers... i had the price starting at £70 and i was hoping for that... in the end it shot up to £110 :)
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: mikeluke on January 28, 2009, 01:41:37 PM
Hamfist - I reckon that you might beat the £435 that you were looking for on this forum - mind you with the Evil Bay charges etc you will need to get to around the £470-475 mark. Lovely guitar - hope that you get a good price!!
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: mikeluke on January 28, 2009, 03:29:18 PM
Well I did give it a nudge to get it going but I thought that it might go a bit higher than it did.
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: hamfist on January 28, 2009, 04:23:50 PM
There certainly wasn't a bidding frenzy at the end, although I had already set a pretty high starting bid, so I suppose it's not too surprising.

I think £463 was a pretty fair price for both parties to be honest.  After all the fees, I'll still be walking away with about £425.
  I'll  be sad to see it go, but the new tele I bought with the money arrived today, so that eased the pain somewhat !
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: Doctor X on January 28, 2009, 06:14:51 PM
This is a pretty good site.  It lists the most watched guitars/amps/pedals on ebay:

http://www.vintagepedal.com/
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: nfe on January 28, 2009, 07:10:22 PM
I sold a pile of boss pedals a year or so ago, most of them had LOADS of watchers.

Like, 50 odd on a Metalzone  :lol:
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: hamfist on April 22, 2009, 08:34:43 AM
Had to post - made the magic 50 watchers on the tele I'm selling at the mo.  So, unlike for some on this board, teles are still REALLy popular !!
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: mikeluke on July 19, 2009, 09:49:39 PM
Thought that I would nudge this one...

I have 77 watching my ObG Les Paul Custom - record for me
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: tomjackson on July 19, 2009, 10:19:34 PM
Just had my record actually selling my Gordon Smith that was in the seconds out.  I gave up here and put it on ebay and there were 116 watchers I think, by far the most I've had. 

The guitar was for sale for £400 here but I got £460 on ebay!

I always pay a little extra for 2 catagories and put 5 or 6 photos on, that usually helps.  And usually time it to end on a Friday or Saturday night around 9pm, bidders are usually a few beers to the good by then :D
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: hamfist on July 20, 2009, 07:48:31 AM
Just had my record actually selling my Gordon Smith that was in the seconds out.  I gave up here and put it on ebay and there were 116 watchers I think, by far the most I've had. 

The guitar was for sale for £400 here but I got £460 on ebay!

Very impressive !!    And good news for me, as I have a nice Gordon Smith I might well be looking to sell in a couple of months !
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: MrBump on July 20, 2009, 12:33:47 PM
Currently got 23 watching my Tascam US122!  That's a high for me...
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: Matt77 on July 20, 2009, 06:24:12 PM
I've had some good results with e-bay recently.
My Xotic AC plus sold for about £155 and my Digitech Brian May Red Special for £165. That's nearly what I paid for them
The most watchers I had was when I sold a friend's spare Take That Ticket. There was about 90 at one point.
I'm finding that now is the time to get rid of any imported goods you don't use
Title: Re: Highest number of watchers on ebay.
Post by: mikeluke on July 20, 2009, 08:20:04 PM
The LPC is up to 90 now... just hope that some of them actually BID on it!