Here's a York Master 3v bell front baritone that has 26 bids and has gotten up to over $250 including shipping.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/334973169059?m ... media=COPY
What's the appeal? Case? Conn 3 mouthpiece?
edit: is this actually an alto horn?
question: why so high?
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Re: question: why so high?
That would explain it - alto horns, super sought after - but 32" seems pretty big to me, for that.
Maybe it's an illustrative case of whatever goes on with online auctioning. Which I don't pretend to understand.
Thursday, n***- bids it up to $110, and later in the day s***t comes along and starts bidding it up by $10 increments until he's over n***-'s $175.51 max bid, and as n***- comes in and pushes it to $200.51, s***t stays with it. Sunday, t***4 comes along and ups it to $240, and s***t is not going to let this get away so he's back to beat that.
s***t probably doesn't know how much it's worth to him, and he probably doesn't understand his options in an ebay auction. He could just bid what his maximum is, rather than the series of $10 increments, but maybe he doesn't fully understand that he could do that, and he doesn't know how much that would be anyway. He probably hasn't really thought about what other bidders might up to, and whether doing all this stuff several days before the auction ends is really the smartest strategy. It's apparently his first auction.
t***4, however, has bought other musical instruments and mouthpieces, and he may be back shortly to place a more strategic bid. He probably knew very well that he was just driving his price up by $20 with Sunday's bid, but I guess some people like to put in a bid just to have a link to the auction.
Maybe there's a way to spot shills in auction bidding? I don't know how, and anyway I don't see anything suspicious here.
My picture is, s***t wanted to buy something like this, and someone told him a York was a fabulous brand. t***4 must be going for the fabulous brand, too ... the mouthpiece is nice, but it's the trombone 3? which I think is not super rare.
Maybe it's an illustrative case of whatever goes on with online auctioning. Which I don't pretend to understand.
Thursday, n***- bids it up to $110, and later in the day s***t comes along and starts bidding it up by $10 increments until he's over n***-'s $175.51 max bid, and as n***- comes in and pushes it to $200.51, s***t stays with it. Sunday, t***4 comes along and ups it to $240, and s***t is not going to let this get away so he's back to beat that.
s***t probably doesn't know how much it's worth to him, and he probably doesn't understand his options in an ebay auction. He could just bid what his maximum is, rather than the series of $10 increments, but maybe he doesn't fully understand that he could do that, and he doesn't know how much that would be anyway. He probably hasn't really thought about what other bidders might up to, and whether doing all this stuff several days before the auction ends is really the smartest strategy. It's apparently his first auction.
t***4, however, has bought other musical instruments and mouthpieces, and he may be back shortly to place a more strategic bid. He probably knew very well that he was just driving his price up by $20 with Sunday's bid, but I guess some people like to put in a bid just to have a link to the auction.
Maybe there's a way to spot shills in auction bidding? I don't know how, and anyway I don't see anything suspicious here.
My picture is, s***t wanted to buy something like this, and someone told him a York was a fabulous brand. t***4 must be going for the fabulous brand, too ... the mouthpiece is nice, but it's the trombone 3? which I think is not super rare.