The bottom line is that the "right" price is what a willing buyer is willing to pay a willing seller for a particular item at a given point in time. If you find the Pagoda you like at a price you are comfortable with, buy it and enjoy it! This is probably as good time as there has been recently to get a nice Pagoda at a reasonable price and you have found at least a couple that seem to interest you.
Here's the funny thing about pricing in general, seemingly for today's world. Timing is everything, unless you are selling a commodity of certain intrinsic value (such as gold). I've been selling a LOT of stuff on eBay lately--
a lot--due to my task of unloading my mother in law's estate for my wife and her sisters. I've learned a few things--
1)
Timing is everything. A price too high, just right or too low is
not relevant unless somebody is in the market for what you are selling
at that time. Sometimes I've had things listed 3 or 4 weeks, no watchers, no questions--then a bid and it's gone. My price was not "wrong" with the first 3 listings--there was just nobody looking.
2)
A lot of people don't like the auction process. Some things I had listed repeatedly in auction format, with little or no watchers or lookers, sold
very quickly when moved to "buy it now" format. I did that because you can list things "until sold" rather than for 7 days...so your item stays out there, searchable, until someone looking for it comes a calling! I've even bumped the price up a bit and things still sell
better on fixed than auction.
3) Certain items of intrinsic value--Limoges China, Swarovski crystal, Wedgwood, precious metals and coins, Leica Cameras, etc. seem to attract bidders. So many other things don't, until the last minute if at all. Move it to fixed, and poof, it's gone. Pianos almost never sell on eBay. It seems to be simply an advertising medium.
There was a news article some months back about a school district that had all these portable classrooms for sale. They listed them on eBay with no minimum and no reserve. Well someone came in with a bid of a few hundred dollars, and got a bunch of classrooms! The school board was a bit miffed (they were expecting something like $15,000) but my point is in that 7 day listing period there just wasn't enough active lookers to bring those up to their value. It does not mean they were only worth $500, but they didn't hit the right people at the right time. Timing again. There are people who do nothing but arbitrage these opportunities by searching for auctions about to close with no bids on things they can flip.
I think pricing continues to be all over the place for the Pagodas. Timing and location matter, too. Brian Peters may have sold a car for 100K+, but there just are not that many of them in a condition demanding that. And have you seen parts pricing? It's getting to COST that much to bring a car to that condition!
