HYEE up and running on ebay

mjkm90 · #1 05-19-2013, 04:57 AM

Easy, but particularly effective. He always seems to get top $$$ by attracting a high # of bidders and the low starting price contributes largely to that interest.

slidekellyslide · #2 05-19-2013, 07:57 AM

The low starting price saves him money...he's saving 15 cents per listing by starting them at 99 cents instead of $9.99. He knows with his clientele that every single item is going to sell and it's going to sell well so why not save some money. Jonsstats does this too...smart businessmen.

thecatspajamas · #3 05-19-2013, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

He knows ... that every single item is going to sell.

I think that's the key. The saving money on listing fees might have been a factor before as well, but since May 1, it costs the same to list a 99-cent item as it does a $99k item at auction. Also, since Yee adds a subtitle for all or nearly all of his auction listings (which costs more than the listing itself, despite subtitles not being searchable), I don't think up-front listing fees are so much of a factor compared to the problem of having "leftovers" when you only run 3-4 auctions a year. Easier to list everything at a price guaranteed to sell, clean house, then start over for the next auction.

71buc · #4 05-20-2013, 01:29 AM

I have always looked forward to Yee's auctions. I dabble in vintage baseball photos compared to many others here my photo collection is very pedestrian. Nonetheless, I enjoy window shopping Yee's offerings despite never being a realistic threat to land a significant photo. However, I must admit that I find a number of his current items a bit macabre. Do others truly collect images depicting crime scenes, birth defects,survivors of the holocaust, and burn victims from Hiroshima? I have to admit that such items have served to dampen my zeal as I search through this current auction. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive or conservative but I find such things to be in poor taste and offensive. I think I will stick with innocuous pretty baseball pictures. Thankfully he still has a nice selection of those.

drc · #5 05-20-2013, 01:42 AM

I authenticated the Bonnie and Clyde autopsy photos for an auction house. Graphic. The auction house didn't tell me the contents of the photos beforehand.

They later sent me a particularly gruesome morgue photo of JFK, with a large portion of the skull loose. That one was pretty rough.

I wasn't morally offended by them, as they were historical topics, plus it's not up to me to tell others what to collect. I would have no interest in purchasing them.

Browsing Henry's auction, I think many of the war photos are quite powerful. War isn't pretty.

yanks12025 · #6 05-20-2013, 06:37 PM

There's a photo of a stock broker who killed himself with a knife. But how are you able to stab yourself in the back of the neck?

GrayGhost · #7 05-21-2013, 07:50 AM

Those photos are in very poor taste, especially in a SPORTS auction..Surprises me in a few ways.

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