gazgod wrote:
Less than 24 hours to go, lots of watchers but no bids yet.
Gaz
The £600 starting price is way too steep, that's why there are no bids. You should remove at least one zero from it to get people interested. The initial price you are asking may perhaps be what you could expect as a winning bid for this kind of hardware (provided you can attract some of those people waiting in line for a new one to be delivered, you should hint about it in one of those "I'm still waiting for my Sam to be delivered" thread over at AW.net), but if you set an initial price this high it signals that you expect to get *even more* out of it when the auction begins, and I think this is scaring people away. Set the initial price to £1 to get people interested and involved, and let the market forces establish the worth of the goods! :-)
(PS. I sold my A1 *G4* at a price much lower than your starting price, and sure it had the Articia and all the known flaws of the A1 design, but it was brand new, it was used only a handful of times, but at least it was a G4 (and it had the best/latest of the two G4's the A1 were delivered with) unlike the "G2" of the Sam. And in all fairness you should look at what price the Pegasos2 G4's are sold at (which is just as capable of running OS4 as the Sam is but has enough power to run circles around it) and realisticly *not* expecting to get a price that high. Again - try reducing the price and watch the bidders come!)
