There is a nice fluid market for both new and after market digital cameras
on eBay. Digital Camera usage has grown enormously over the past few
years. Technology has reduced the old film and developing almost to the
archives. Quality cameras ranging in price from well under $500 to over
$2000 are available. Professionals, amateur hobbyists and regular
households all seem to be acquiring cameras, often more than one per
household. The question becomes how can I acquire a digital camera at the
best possible price?
With a large volume of most models being traded everyday, this is the
ideal efficient market. One can study the dynamics of this micro-market
and determine some useful buying rules. With a little more information
than the rest of the marketplace, one can almost certainly make some
intelligent buying opportunities. This article focuses on how to identify
these gaps and often purchase digital camera's for 20-40% below retail.
This article should be read together with my longer piece and a web site,
which produces the information required to identify buying nuggets. Find
the links and URL's to these two sites at the bottom of this article. The
niche site focuses specifically and only on data from the digital camera
market.
Most information on eBay focuses on the selling element, i.e. how to sell
your stuff. I have tended to specialize on the buying end and trying to
identify market opportunities and price in-efficiencies to really capture
excellent deals. To do this we need to understand the dynamics of the eBay
market place. Like any other market it is supply demand driven, and like a
large flee-market if a buyer has knowledge of how many items are for sale
at what prices and how many other buyers are in the market, then that
buyer can capture the upper hand. Lets focus a little more on supply.
The eBay supply dynamic is a little different in that supply of an item
must be seen at a point in time. In other words, because auctions end at
different times, one needs to grasp the number of auctions ending in close
proximity for the same item. This gives you a feel for the supply of items
or in our case cameras. What makes this interesting is that today there
could be a large amount of auctions ending for a particular model, but
next week there could be very few. This is one element driving the price.
The demand side is slightly more complex and hidden from the average eBay
buyer. This is where that the web site I refer to at the bottom has some
useful data. Demand in eBay terms is measured (by sellers) as a number of
factors - how many people view my auction, how many people ask questions,
how many people place me on their watch page, and how many people actually
bid. Obviously as we progress down this list the data become more reliable
as an indication of demand. Page views are not easy to obtain, although
some sellers place a publicly viewable counter on their auction pages.
Questions and watchers are available to sellers, and the special web site
mentioned below will expose this information. Number of bids is available
for all to see.
Now if we happened to produce a graph as the auction progresses of the
changes in the number of questions, watchers and bid's one can easily see
how the demand is changing as time progresses. Typically if questions are
high and watchers are high, but bids are low, this may indicate some
confusion and a possible buy opportunity. If watchers are very high and
climbing, but bids are low, this can point to a last minute bidding war,
and a stay out indicator.
Armed with this information and also a quick summary of other similar
auctions ending soon, plus a quick feel for the skill set of the seller
and the current highest bidder, once can see a picture very different from
the average eBay buyer. Soon the trained eye will observe some nice buying
opportunities. For the professional or amateur photographer this will soon
bring in a number of digital camera buys that are quite a bit cheaper that
retail. For example it is quite possible to find gems at 20-40% of retail
prices. Lets face it, most digital camera's perform perfectly years after
acquisition. Digital electronics seldom degrade over time, so the
aftermarket such as eBay is the idea place to buy camera's cheaply.
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