[ARC5] How Did This Happen?

[Leslie Smith]

  Of course, because any bargain (by definition) will fall outside the
  limit of two or three standard deviations from the mean.
  That means it's only going to happen about 1-5% of the time (according
  to the definition of standard deviation.)


  73 de Les Smith
  vk2bcu at operamail.com


On Fri, Oct 24, 2014, at 05:30, Bruce Long via ARC5 wrote:
> i have had some limited good luck on ebay by looking for items that are
> mis-identified and or in the wrong catagory.  It might be my imagination
> but the effectiveness of that stradegy seems to have dropped off over
> time as- I assume - other ebays have started to use the same trick. 
> Still there are occasional surprises and bargins to be found
> 
>       From: Dennis Monticelli <dennis.monticelli at gmail.com>
>  To: "WA5CAB at cs.com" <WA5CAB at cs.com> 
> Cc: ARC-5 Maillist <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
>  Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 11:42 AM
>  Subject: Re: [ARC5] How Did This Happen?
>    
> I think eBay is the most "efficient" value setting tool available because
> it brings together so many buyers and sellers and publishes the results
> for
> all to see.  Having said that, any time you have a small statistical
> population of interested buyers (I think our command sets qualify), there
> are going to be some statistical outlying data points beyond the norm
> such
> as two must-have buyers locking horns or the small buying community not
> paying close attention all the while assuming someone else will drop in
> and
> take the price up to the norm.  I think the latter happened in this case.
> 
> Dennis AE6C
> 
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:55 AM, WA5CAB--- via ARC5
> <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > Nothing unusual about it.  I once acquired an equivalent value item
> > (machine tool, not radio) for $0.99.  This is the side of eBay that people
> > who call
> > it ePay and worse never bother to mention.
> >
> > In a message dated 10/23/2014 02:55:31 AM Central Daylight Time,
> > arc5 at ix.netcom.com writes:
> > > The Market is manic.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Robert Eleazer" <releazer at earthlink.net>
> > > Subject: [ARC5] How Did This Happen?
> > >
> > >
> > > >Ebay:  221580762676
> > > >
> > > >A good looking T-22 ARC-5 WITH the rack for $25????
> >
> > Robert Downs - Houston
> > wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> > MVPA 9480
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