Prices are high on Ebay because you're basically selling each monitor with a warranty. You can't sell anything without a guarantee that the item will get there in the condition it was sold. Selling CRT's on there is high risk. One bad drop and you're out the the crt, shipping fees, and packaging costs. The only way to avoid that is to sell for parts and hardly anyone does that. People still like to look at Ebay as the reference point of worth. Very annoying.GeneraLight wrote:Yeah, and I can tell you that all of the BVM listings on eBay right now are all way above market value. Some are disproportionally higher than others, like the subject of this thread for example. There's a D24 going for $5300 that's been sitting on eBay for months now. If it were at market value, someone would have bought it a long time ago. There's a guy on eBay who's scalping BVMs for sky-high prices. He listed a D32 on there a month ago for $7500 and r/crtgaming tore him a new one. Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, not what you think it's worth in your delusional mind. Now mind you, eBay charges a 10% fee for sellers so I can understand prices being a bit higher on there than on other websites. I could charge 1 million dollars for a BVM and call people clueless while refusing to budge on the price. It doesn't mean it's worth 1 million dollars. You aren't sitting on white gold. You don't have a holy grail. Get over yourself and come back down to Earth.
r/crtgaming and other crt communities kind of have rose colored glasses when it comes to the value of these things. There are people paying big bucks for these things. The ones paying top dollar just aren't posting and bragging about it. The people finding them for free or near nothing are the most vocal and so it's easy to think that's their true value. Plus there is a ridicule factor involved anytime someone posts about paying over the communities perceived value.
I certainly don't like it but the hype is real.