blueduck
Well-known member
I recieved a spreadsheet from Catfish the other dayand it is pretty nice to use....
so after looking this afternoon on ebay and plugging in some numbers and pushing the buttons on the old abacus [ok an updated electronic sliderule version thereof] I deciphered that to many people are bidding way to much for the jewelry offered for the most part, many at above spot price, then they have to pay shipping and then they have to turn it and therefore incur shipping again of some type....
So if my math was not off, one in partcualr stood out as they claimed their auction which recieved no bods at the 4 hour left mark for a 41.5 gram of 18k gold started at $600 and they claimed it was below scrap gold pricing.... am i missing something? I undestand Catfish's numbers are at 60% of spot to start over a 30 day average, but even using a full spot price of today at 672 at the that time frame, it seemed if someone was trying to be dishonest or maybe did not have a clue what 75% gold is....
the other auctiuons i looked thru were similar but the bidders had went above what spot was, and a person still had to figure shipping on the karat gold..... I spect the bidders may be speculating but what a way to speculate eh? over bid or over charge in hopes the price continues to rise? and then there are the auctions that have jewels still attached and figured into the weights, broken pieces, consideredd scrap but the uniformed would be thinking grams of gold in the particualr karat, and not figure in the duff, way over priced.... but i guess i could be off again and missing something..... at least the auctions i was looking at separated the different karats.
anyhow as in every other venture i have tried it seems there are always those folks trying to make it big by paying more than the product is worth, in hopes the price rises above their cost enough to make a profit, and they never figure in all the costs added in until to late.... and as soon as they get frustrated or quit a new idiot takes their place and does it all over again cause they been watching and they jump in before it gets to good to be true.... the cycle never ends.... or so it seems.... [that doesnt mean there is not a good deal out there waiting to be made]
Anyhow i was not trying to buy, but i was testing the spreadsheet out to see if i could make it work with what was available and it just seemed there was a theme going on to day, and the full moon was over a couple days ago.
William
Central Idaho
so after looking this afternoon on ebay and plugging in some numbers and pushing the buttons on the old abacus [ok an updated electronic sliderule version thereof] I deciphered that to many people are bidding way to much for the jewelry offered for the most part, many at above spot price, then they have to pay shipping and then they have to turn it and therefore incur shipping again of some type....
So if my math was not off, one in partcualr stood out as they claimed their auction which recieved no bods at the 4 hour left mark for a 41.5 gram of 18k gold started at $600 and they claimed it was below scrap gold pricing.... am i missing something? I undestand Catfish's numbers are at 60% of spot to start over a 30 day average, but even using a full spot price of today at 672 at the that time frame, it seemed if someone was trying to be dishonest or maybe did not have a clue what 75% gold is....
the other auctiuons i looked thru were similar but the bidders had went above what spot was, and a person still had to figure shipping on the karat gold..... I spect the bidders may be speculating but what a way to speculate eh? over bid or over charge in hopes the price continues to rise? and then there are the auctions that have jewels still attached and figured into the weights, broken pieces, consideredd scrap but the uniformed would be thinking grams of gold in the particualr karat, and not figure in the duff, way over priced.... but i guess i could be off again and missing something..... at least the auctions i was looking at separated the different karats.
anyhow as in every other venture i have tried it seems there are always those folks trying to make it big by paying more than the product is worth, in hopes the price rises above their cost enough to make a profit, and they never figure in all the costs added in until to late.... and as soon as they get frustrated or quit a new idiot takes their place and does it all over again cause they been watching and they jump in before it gets to good to be true.... the cycle never ends.... or so it seems.... [that doesnt mean there is not a good deal out there waiting to be made]
Anyhow i was not trying to buy, but i was testing the spreadsheet out to see if i could make it work with what was available and it just seemed there was a theme going on to day, and the full moon was over a couple days ago.
William
Central Idaho