Ebay Watch: May – June 2015

Editor’s Note: This one goes out to Steve From Jersey who sent in some old English skate mags unsolicited. Thanks! – Kilwag. (P.S. Drop me an email, please.) So welcome everybody to the new bay watch, covering the months of May-June 2015. It was a weird period, and a period that cemented some things that […]

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Ebay Watch: March – April 2015

So welcome everybody to the new bay watch, covering the months of March-April 2015. Prices are on the rise again. Maybe it’s people spending tax refunds, maybe it’s the economy. But whatever it is, prices on everything seem to be going up. And the biggest jumps are on those mid-tier boards that probably wouldn’t have […]

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Ebay Watch: December 2014 – February 2015

Here you go, here’s the compilation Baywatch that I promised you. It’s a long one, lots of high priced decks in here from the Xmas 2014/early 2015 period. So now I’m pretty caught up. From here on out I will be doing bimonthly issues of Baywatch, so the next one will incorporate March and April […]

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Ebay Watch June/July 2014: The Lost Ebaywatch

I know, I know, you’ve all been waiting for a new BayWatch forever! Some patiently, and some not so patiently! I actually thought I’d stopped doing these completely. With the passing of my friend Frazer I stopped going on the collector sites, and little by little my interest in this whole world kind of went […]

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Ebay Watch: April/May 2014

So, I’m sure some of you thought I’d stopped doing these! I know. It’s been a long time since you read a new Baywatch! There are two main reasons: There just hasn’t been that much good stuff for sale on eBay recently. There’s been a real slump to be honest. Same stuff, different month, and […]

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Ebay Watch: March 2014

March came and went and was kinda blaaaah. Nothing exceptional went off, at least nothing that I was super excited about. Of course we had some good ones, but normally March is a crazy month because people either have to sell rare stuff off to pay taxes, or they have tons of excess cash from […]

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Ebay Watch: February 2014

After a reasonably bland January, February was insane! There were lots of unusual items that came up in Feb. Some went for big bucks and some were actually vastly underpriced IMHO, which makes for some head scratching times. It’s tough to know what a deck will go for these days actually. But anyway, I digress. […]

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Ebay Watch: January 2014

January was an interesting month. Some unusual decks came up, and some real collectibles that you hardly ever see. Its actually a very interesting time in the market. We are seeing some new collectors out there, collectors who apparently cant or dont want to distinguish between original decks and reissues. They are more than happy […]

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Ebay Watch: December 2013

December was disappointing this month. It used to be that you would get some bank-breaker decks going off in December, as wives and girlfriends found the perfect xmas gift for their skate obsessed partners! They wouldn’t mind if it was overpriced because they don’t know and better and it’s simply crossing a gift off the […]

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Ebay Watch: November 2013

I’m composing this edition of Baywatch from my parent’s home in Wallasey, England. I’m visiting my mom for Christmas. The down times give me plenty of time to work on the column, so here you go! I’m happy to report that the skateshop that had just opened in town on my last visit (Last December) […]

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Ebay Watch: August-October 2013

So here we have it, the three-month compendium that gets me up to date! I know I know. You wanted three separate ones. But this is the best I could do! I don’t think you’ll be disappointed though, because this was an incredible three-month span. A span which saw the 6-year old high-price record smashed, […]

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Ebay Watch: July 2013

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. I’m so glad you could attend, come inside come inside… Better late than never right? There have been some major life changes here at houseofneil that set me back, plus, on the weekends in the summer I’m actually skating! Anyway, here is July (which I […]

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eBay Watch: June 2013

60s, 70s, very early 80s. First up this in the 70s section this month is this amazing package, which consist of a mint Banazi aluminum complete, along with the original shipping box! It’s been in storage for 35 years, and looks as bright and shiny as they day it left the factory in 1977! The […]

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Ebay Watch: May 2013

Nere it is, eBayWatch May 2013 60s, 70s, very early 80s. First up this in the 70s section this month is this Powell Peralta ‘Beamer’ team board from 1979. It comes complete with Trackers and Powell Bones Mini Cubics. It’s in very good used condition: the orange is still loud and vibrant and the pizza-grip […]

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Ebay Watch: March / April 2013

60s, 70s, very early 80s. First up this in the 70s section this month is this Alva “Litebeam” from 1979. It is NOS, never gripped or mounted. Some folks raised some questions over the validity of this deck, but the seller claimed to have owned it since it was new because his family owned a […]

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Ebay Watch: February 2013

So welcome to the long overdue February 2013 edition of eBayWatch. Sorry it took so long to get out! I’m well over a month late I know, but a lot of stuff has been going down at HouseofNeil! Extra work projects, trips, and all kinds of stuff! And as it got later and later I […]

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Ebay Watch: January 2013

So welcome to the January 2013 edition of eBayWatch. This was one of those months that on first glance looked like a really bad one. But as the month went on and as I dug down to explore some of the “mid-price” decks I found some real beauties actually. And some unusual ones too! The […]

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Ebay Watch: December 2012

I just flew back from England (and boy are my arms tired!) where I spent Xmas with my family. I was amazed to see a skateboard store had popped up in Wallasey Village. Wallasey is across the river Mersey from Liverpool. It’s an old town (60,000 or so) that gets mentioned in book back to […]

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eBay Watch: November 2012

So welcome to the November 2012 edition of eBayWatch. Thanks for all of your feedback after last month’s column. It appears that the new format is a hit, and is certainly far easier for me to produce every month, so here you go! It’s only December 9 and the November BayWatch is in the books! […]

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Ebay Watch: October 2012

So welcome to the October 2012 edition of eBayWatch. So after all of your feedback last month (thanks for that by the way!) I’ve decided to do a compromise. I’m keeping it monthly, and I’m also keeping a full selection of decks. However, I’m only doing detailed write-ups on some of them. The others will […]

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