ebay's morbid fascination with death
 

Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p>If everyone didnt hear former mvp Ken Caminiti died last night of a heart attack and he was only 41.I realized awhile ago when a baseball player dies that ebay gets flooded with his items almost right away,and sometimes youll see extreme pricing but this one is almost beyond belief,except for the fact its no where near an isolated case.Over 100 Ken Caminiti items have been listed on ebay in the past 8 hours,or just a little more than half the amount thats shown up on ebay in the last 2 weeks for him.<br /><br />Here one of the more dumbfounding auctions<br /><br />autographed photo of him by a reliable seller didnt sell for 9.95 after running for a week<br /><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=27265&item=5125279 278&rd=1" target=_new>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=27265&item=5125279 278&rd=1</a><br /><br /><br />same photo relisted early this morning,sold for a buy it now of 90 dollars with 30 minutes of being listed<br /><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5130292471" target=_new>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5130292471</a>

ebay's morbid fascination with death
 

Posted By: <b>Lee Behrens</b><p>This will continue to happen as long as there are buyers out there to pay during the period of mourning. It is our free market system at it's finest. You certainly can't blame the seller he is provding a service to the buyers and no one is forcing them to buy.<br /><br />It is sad but I don't think it will ever change.<br /><br />Lee<br />

ebay's morbid fascination with death
 

Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p>looks like i jumped the gun a bit because in the last 5 hours just under 200 more items of his have been listed.<br /><br />it is sad in 2 regards,people who use a tragedy to make extra money,which as Lee said they arent breaking any laws doing it so they have every right<br /><br />the 2nd is the people who pay so much now but 2 months from now what they bought wont be worth half what they paid<br /><br />I first noticed it with Willie Stargells passing when the amount of his items more than tripled on ebay within the first day,People were paying crazy prices immediately.<br /><br />When i first started watching baseball i was a Pirates fan and he was one of the better players eventho it was near the end of his career.He became my favorite player.When he died,i said i should get some of his cards i dont have but when i saw the prices i was smart enough to know,ill wait a week or a month and buy it then.If people didnt pay the prices they couldnt sell them for such inflated costs so one balances the other.<br /><br />I was just saying to me its a morbid way to go about things.I probably have 100 Ken Caminiti cards if i went thru my collection but im not going to put them up on ebay right now just to make a few extra bucks off it,id rather not

ebay's morbid fascination with death
 

Posted By: <b>dennis</b><p>elvis died and all these people wiped out everything within minutes of opening the store...same thing for john lennon.So this isn't an ebay thing. i wonder if there's a run on christopher reeve's video's?????????????

ebay's morbid fascination with death
 

Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>Whats really sick here is that shipping cost..7.00!

ebay's morbid fascination with death
 

Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>Hey, once the signer is dead, there is a finite set of available autographs, so it is not unusual for speculation to crop up when someone dies. The same is true of art as artists age.