pierre
Junior Member
Posts: 33
Country: Switzerland
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Post by pierre on Oct 9, 2020 10:28:47 GMT -8
Hello all, especially colleagues from the States,
in order to go ahead with my series and to complete my collection, I look out for the Cerambycidae genus Crossidius. If you have some surplus to offer, don't hesitate and tell me what it is. Any offer, even for small series or single specimen, could interest me! Let's discuss!
I can pay for if you wish, but all in all I prefer exchanges. I don't speak business here, but passion. Main spots concern offers from the
hirtipes-complex (bechteli, brunneipennis, flavescens, immaculipennis, nigripennis, nubilus, setosus)
coralinus complex (coralinus typica, ascendens, jocosus, obfuscipennis, parviceps)
as well as offers for C. humeralis typica, C. hurdi, C. nigrescens, C. mojavensis linsleyi, C. testaceus australis
but any offer would be accepted with pleasure!!
Pierre from Switzerland
pierre.haller@greenmail.ch
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Post by kevinkk on Oct 9, 2020 18:51:50 GMT -8
Hi Pierre,
since I'm already logged in, I'll take a minute to let you know you'll probably have better success with your search in the classifieds.
And to what's it called "segway" to a previous post, try BeetleForum.com as well for possible help with your Cerambycidae.
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pierre
Junior Member
Posts: 33
Country: Switzerland
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Post by pierre on Oct 9, 2020 23:16:38 GMT -8
The problem with the classifieds is that a post there fastly runs out... perhaps it has a longer life here. In any case, it's just "throwing a bottle into the sea", I know that specimen exchanges are something people do not practice any longer today. I remember the seventies or eighties, that was before internet and ebay; we made phantastic exchanges with colleagues, and honestly the best specimen in our collections came in this way. Since everything has become commercial now, the really good deals have turned sporadic.
Thanks for the hint about BeetleForum. I will try.
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Post by kevinkk on Oct 10, 2020 9:46:39 GMT -8
The problem with the classifieds is that a post there fastly runs out... perhaps it has a longer life here. In any case, it's just "throwing a bottle into the sea", I know that specimen exchanges are something people do not practice any longer today. I remember the seventies or eighties, that was before internet and ebay; we made phantastic exchanges with colleagues, and honestly the best specimen in our collections came in this way. Since everything has become commercial now, the really good deals have turned sporadic. Thanks for the hint about BeetleForum. I will try. I completely agree. I am frankly sick of seeing multitudes of Ebay ads here at Insectnet. A person would have be be "very uninformed" to not try Ebay first when looking for these specimens being flooded unto the classifieds, ads quickly get buried in the onslaught. And it's a link- it's not even a complete ad. I'd like to see this issue fixed. Exchanges seem a natural, a pure form of trade, what I concluded though, is. a sale is an exchange of operating capital for use in the future acquisition of what a person might be looking for. |
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 11, 2020 2:35:19 GMT -8
Kevin, eBay ads are VERY popular among the classifieds, they won't be blocked for sure.
As I sometimes sell on eBay, I can tell you that an eBay listing with a Classified ad gets 10x more visits than without.
Pierre : in the past, we had to write letters with long exchange lists and so on... it took months to make exchange and it was very hard to find foreign people to make exchange with.
Now you can post in 2 minutes a classified ad every month and touch a very large audience.
This said it is true that there are less exchanges than in the past. I guess it is now so easy to find specimens for sale at low prices now, that exchanges are less appealing.
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Post by kevinkk on Oct 11, 2020 9:13:04 GMT -8
Kevin, eBay ads are VERY popular among the classifieds, they won't be blocked for sure. As I sometimes sell on eBay, I can tell you that an eBay listing with a Classified ad gets 10x more visits than without. I use Ebay a lot as well, I reach a different market that doesn't even know about trading sites like this, I usually sell livestock there, as far as insects, and you can tell from the prices people are asking, they're counting on that market that doesn't know about trading sites. I have good luck there, the rules are different and maybe some are more comfortable using a "buyer safe" platform. I do know that a view or visit is far from a sale. I'm trying right now to sell applewood for chew sticks- 217 visits and 2 sales. Ebay has never been even close to a reliable source of income, just a way to pass things along, or get rid of stuff. appealing. |
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