"OUTRAGEOUS" Price on Ebay

Joe B

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247 euro ... are you kidding me ? I might pay that for a signed studio photo of AXMANN , but for a photo of a couple of BDM girls with their mother ... Hell no .
Does ANYONE think that the buyer of this photo will ever be able to get his/her money back someday ? For me ... my limit is 75 euro for a unique photo . If I get outbid , I will copy and paste the photo to my picture folder while the photo is still up for auction and save the image for free .

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That's a stupid price. Even a rare SS photo or something would not go that high IMO. I don't know what people who buy stuff like this at a price like that are thinking. I'm with you Joe, I've copied lots of photos just to use for my own reference archives.
 
Crazy price.

It seems that photos with blonde BDM girls are the most expensive.

The most interesting on this photo is the checkered skirt and stockings one of the girls are wearing.

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unless, that was the family of the person who won the Pcture and just tried to get that picture back to the family.... I really can not find any other "strong" explanation.

If not, in this World there are a ot of people with a lot of money and NO Brain.

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Antonio
 
Crazy price.

It seems that photos with blonde BDM girls are the most expensive.


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It's true! "aryan" girls are the most expensive :hail: :lol: .Also,beautiful BDM are expensive.Generally,hair colour doesn't matter :sad: it's easy to verify the theory.An identity photograph can easily reach 50/100€ ... sometimes more...:first: At the same time,a girl with an ugly face is still cheap.


Nobody wants to get married with her :pound:
 
Girls born in 1930 would be 82 years old today. If still living they are great- and great-great-grandmothers ...
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unless, that was the family of the person who won the Picture and just tried to get that picture back to the family....

Well, it takes two bidders to get a price up. So unless the family of her divorced husband has bid on it as well :)

I followed the auction closely because I suspected the attractive blonde will fetch a high price. Of course when I saw the clock stopped ticking at 247 Euro I was stunned. You could have an hour fun on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg and if you are kind enought the lady allowes you to take a picture with her legs wide open ...

It is absolutely beyond me why and who could possibly bid that stupid money on an average BdM photo. And as I said: there must have been two to get the price up.

Daniel
 
This gir is set for sale on 14€ and no one buys it. Why ?

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Foto Ak HJ-Junge Pimpf im Mantel mit Dolch und Koppelschloss

This great postcard-size photo was sold on ebay recently for 61 euro. In my opinion expencive but not outrageous. If I had the money, I would have paid an outrageus price. Did one of you get the photo?

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Here is one I just got on Ebay for under 10 euros .
What is neat is that she is wearing 3 sportsfest badges from 3 different years in between her HJ membership pin. Goes to show you that you can find quaility photos for a reasonable price .
By the way this girl is "HOT" compared to most other BDM photos you see !

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I also collect movie memorabilia, and the vintage movie paper collectables market (posters, photos, etc.) seems to be in a real slump. The German militaria collectables market appears to be booming by contrast, but then I'm still new to the field.

I wanted to bid on a BDM postcard earlier this week, but I had a feeling I would be outbid. And how! The starting bid was 2,99 EU. Well, just look where it ended up:

[OK, I tried to post the eBay link, but eBay has been really screwy recently with "ended" auction links, so here's the photo. Keep reading for the price...]

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I mean really? It's lovely and rare and all, but with these prices... man, what I could do with that kind of money. They're going to scare new collectors away with prices like that. The price was hanging around 15 or 20 EU in the last couple hours, and then WHAM! Within the last couple seconds it spiked up to 351,00 EU! That's over $400 USD!! I was floored watching this happen in real time. Makes you wonder what would've happened if one of the bidders' internet cut out at that moment, heh.

Strangely, these same high-rolling bidders didn't go much above 20 EU on all of the other BDM photos they bid on (but the others were "just" photos, not studio portrait postcards). Rare postcards seem to go for a lot higher than photos, for some reason. And I think it would be the other way around, because usually postcards would be mass-produced, meaning there should be far more out there than the photos from someone's camera. Although I can understand the larger format is more attractive, and perhaps some of these postcards (like the one above) are one-offs, specially ordered by the group in the photo. Any postcard collectors have any further info or the rarity of different types of postcards?

Anyway, I figure even within this niche, collectors have very specific things that they go for, and are willing to pay top dollar for. Some trends that others have noted include the braids, or certain decorations/patches, but at the end of the day, it can be quite an individual thing. Just because an individual collector goes after something very specific, doesn't mean it will ever hold that same value, on average, in the market. No, these high-rolling collectors with very specialist interests will likely never "get their money back," but then I reckon these purchases are not made as investments: they're made because the collectors love collecting.
 

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No, you are right and I guess there could be many reasons. Fraud, hiking prices up, or one person put a very high bid thinking he would get it anyway, and then another came along and did the same, before the end just thought that if he types in 400 he would snipe it - not realizing another guy had already covered it with a huge bid.
I collect lots of different things, old postacrds from my area being one of them, and I can tell you after many decades of collecting them, "new" ones, or strange ones that interest me only come along every year or so. And when they do, it does not really matter to me if I have to pay 20 Franks for it, or 200 or even 2000. If i want it for my collection, then I will get it.
Some of the items I collect, there is of couerse the resale value at some point to consider, but when it comes to items for my personal collection of my hometown, I resigned myself to the fact - long ago - that although I will sell them at some point, I am not buying them for resale. So it really does not matter to me what I end up paying for a specific card I want.
Each to his own, and with Fleabay you never really know anyway. Same as with many dealers, as they also BS on their prices. We have observed them doing it here on this forum, selling something for X-amount, yet leaving another, much amount on their site as the sold price. Or just pretending to sell at X-amount, giving it to their mates to sell for them at a little lower, still making a huge profit based on that item already being sold for a much higher amount. (Or appearing so anyway)
 
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