How can Items sell for a Dime?

Many ebay sellers start auctions at a few cents to try and attract bids and keep costs down. A proportion of these auctions, for many different reasons, dip under the radar and remain unsold!
Many items start at under a dime and whereas some weeks they will take off with multiple bids, in other weeks an identical item can sell for a few cents

Strange but True!!

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History of the Five and Ten Stores

Five and Ten Stores - Also known and Five and Dime or Nickel and Dime - origininated in the USA around the 1870's. The concept was simple - everything cost either five cents (a nickel) or ten cents (a dime). The originator of the concept may have been Woolworths, which began in 1878 in Watertown, New York. Other five and tens that existed in the USA included W.T. Grant, J.J. Newberry's, McCrory's, Kresge, McClellan's, and Ben Franklin Stores.

These stores originally featured merchandise priced at only five cents or ten cents, although later in the century the price range of merchandise expanded. Inflation eventually dictated that the stores were no longer able to sell any items for five or ten cents, and were then referred to as "variety stores".

Five and Ten Stores were mentioned in many popular songs, perhaps most memorably in Meredith Willson's song "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas", recorded by many artists including Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como and Johnny Mathis.

Mort Dixon and Billy Rose wrote the song "I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five and Ten Cent Store)" for Rose's 1931 stage show Crazy Quilt, and Nanci Griffith wrote the song "Love at the Five and Dime".

In July 2009, Dimebidder.com was launched to revive the five and ten concept, by taking advantage of a feature of EBAY auctions - that a proportion of auctions ending on any given day will have started at a few cents to attract bids, but, for one of many reasons, fail to do so.

THERE REALLY ARE SOME SERIOUS BARGAINS TO BE FOUND ON THIS SITE FOR NICKELS AND DIMES!


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