Some people are NUTS

[alfloyd]

This single cavity Lyman mold went for $455.00 on e-bay.
Some people have no common sense.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_500wt_1282

That is just nuts.

Lafaun

[skimmerhead]

This single cavity Lyman mold went for $455.00 on e-bay.
Some people have no common sense.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_500wt_1282

That is just nuts.

Lafaun

i think you could add a few more words to that, one that comes to mind is (RETARDED) and too many others to list!
skimmerhead

[fryboy]

while i agree it went for more than i'd of gave one also has to recall that that mold and in that configuration is no longer listed in lyman's current catalog and if you desire it bad enough to say fill a collection and have deep enough pockets it's about the only way to get it ( still nuts but ... )

[Wal']

And MiHec has a clone of the classic Thompson 358156 HP group buy, selling here at the moment for $90/2C + $16 extra pins +$15 shipping.

Still makes you wonder though, but as fryboy sez, maybe a collectors prize, one for the numbats though IMO ????????

[rbuck351]

I guess if you have more money than you know what to do with and you want something, price is literally no problem. The other thing here is that it takes two nuts to get the price up that high.

[Bill*]

I guess if you have more money than you know what to do with and you want something, price is literally no problem. The other thing here is that it takes two nuts to get the price up that high.

or one nut and one shill....just sayin'

[Roundnoser]

There were 4 bidders on that mold. Two dropped out before the price went crazy. The other two bidders just went nuts!

Regardless, hats off to the seller. I'm sure he is as happy as a clam.

[darkroommike]

I try not to worry about what others may want to pay for an item, I do a lot of trading on eBay and never buy anything for more than I think it's worth. That said, it will be interesting to see if the seller gets paid or if this was a whoops bid. The mold is no big deal, you could buy a new 2-up or 4-up 358156 and have it modified for less than half of what was paid. The listing has an error, too, it casts 155 grains as a SOLID and of course will cast less as a HP.

[gwpercle]

Some folks got a whole lot more money than sense.

gary

[Bret4207]

Any time I see something like that I wonder if one of the bidders is the owners alter ego jacking up the price. If the other party backs out, so what! The precedent is set and he sells it again in 6 weeks.

[BCall]

Any time I see something like that I wonder if one of the bidders is the owners alter ego jacking up the price. If the other party backs out, so what! The precedent is set and he sells it again in 6 weeks.

Except that if the other bidder backs out he is still stuck with the approximately 10% fee he has to pay on the closing price of the auction. Ebay charges the fee when the auction closes, not when the winner pays.

I'm not saying shill bidding doesn't happen, but if the "shill" wins, the seller is stuck with a fee and no money, over $40 on said auction. And then he sets a "precedent" that may or may not work. I've seen prices all over the map on molds, and to automatically assume that a person could sell anything at a very inflated price would make the seller foolish. Ebay bidders are too unpredictable. Bids seem to vary widely depending on the sellers feedback, pictures, bidders craziness, etc,etc...

More than once I have seen an auction go not only for more than new, but also more than could be bought at buy-it-now on ebay itself. And no one seems to have any patience anymore. A co-worker of my dad's bought a new Playstation 3 shortly after they were first put out for almost double what they cost new because her son "had to have it right now".

[Hardcast416taylor]

Now guys maybe we are being a bit harsh here. After all it does come with the plastic mold box?Robert

[skimmerhead]

(retarded)

[Sonnypie]

It's only nuts to you and me.
The seller may well be laughing all the way to the bank.

[Bret4207]

Except that if the other bidder backs out he is still stuck with the approximately 10% fee he has to pay on the closing price of the auction. Ebay charges the fee when the auction closes, not when the winner pays.

I'm not saying shill bidding doesn't happen, but if the "shill" wins, the seller is stuck with a fee and no money, over $40 on said auction. And then he sets a "precedent" that may or may not work. I've seen prices all over the map on molds, and to automatically assume that a person could sell anything at a very inflated price would make the seller foolish. Ebay bidders are too unpredictable. Bids seem to vary widely depending on the sellers feedback, pictures, bidders craziness, etc,etc...

More than once I have seen an auction go not only for more than new, but also more than could be bought at buy-it-now on ebay itself. And no one seems to have any patience anymore. A co-worker of my dad's bought a new Playstation 3 shortly after they were first put out for almost double what they cost new because her son "had to have it right now".

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Like I said, it makes me wonder.

[mrb7]

It also matters if winner pays, as someone mentioned.

I have an antique camera that I paid $250 or so on a second chance offer that sold for over $1200 three times without the high bidder paying.

Sometimes fleaBay is completely illogical.

[DukeInFlorida]

Looks to me like the 23 bids were the issue.
There were three bidders who made wild a$$, "hope to win at any cost" bids......

All three of them seemed to think that a $500 max bid would grab the auction, however while expecting that it would never get more than $100 or so. That's the danger of wild a$$ bidding like that.

Better to bid the MOST that you would pay, and be willing to allow the auction to go to the stoopid bidders if over your max bid.

[km101]

I recently sold a Lee DC mold on Ebay for more than it cost new. The bidder was not a caster and didn't know anything about casting. He was an artist who worked in glass, and wanted to try to make glass bullets. He saw my listing and decided that he had to have this shape mold and bought it regardless of price. When I told him that the temp. of molten glass would probably melt the mold, he said that he would try it anyway! No common sense, but had the money to do what he wanted. I just got lucky.

Ken
NRA life Member

[Elkins45]

I recently sold a Lee DC mold on Ebay for more than it cost new. The bidder was not a caster and didn't know anything about casting. He was an artist who worked in glass, and wanted to try to make glass bullets. He saw my listing and decided that he had to have this shape mold and bought it regardless of price. When I told him that the temp. of molten glass would probably melt the mold, he said that he would try it anyway! No common sense, but had the money to do what he wanted. I just got lucky.

Ken
NRA life Member

I would love to see the results of this if you keep in touch with the buyer, regardless of if he succeeds or fails.

Seeing the failure might actually be more interesting...I've never seen a melted Lee mold.

[Char-Gar]

I have one of those same HP molds I will sell for $200.00 if anybody wants it. Any takers?