The auction is now over and the winning bid was (AUS)$87.
Converted from Aussie dollars to US that would make it around the $68 mark, which is a bargain. Remember the listed price for the single developer and source code of Krypton Navigator is $149. There were a total of 22 bids spread pretty evenly over the entire 7 day period.
So have we learnt something from the experiment? It proves that at least a few people are reading my blog otherwise there would have been no bids at all. I would guess that most of the bidders are acting as individuals rather than corporations as most companies would not consider an eBay auction as an appropriate method of purchasing software!
Given that individuals are more price sensitive than corporations I am pleased with the winning bid. I don’t expect to be using eBay in the future as a regular mechanism for selling licenses. But I would definitely consider it again for a special offer or other marketing event.
