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Re: Dodgy b!tch on eBay.

Thu, 30 September 2004 03:10

ellen wrote on Thu, 30 September 2004 03:46

BUT BUT BUT...

As a seller... it pisses me off when people wait till the last minute to bid. I mean seriously... whats the point... you should just have 1 day auctions.

If NOONE bids and then in the last minute a few people have a hit, your not gonna get much more than your starting price and to me that makes ebay useless.

I'm a last minute bidder myself and it pisses me off having to wait for 10 day listings to come to a close. Or even more annoying is when I've been watching an item for 5 days, and because they havn't got a bid yet, the arseholes pull the item from sale to try and sell locally, but I very well know that the item is going to pull some last minute bids to how rare and valuable it is, IE: the last time that happened to me was with a pair of 200mhz ppro 1mb cache cpu's that had a start bid of $20. That item would have had a helluva battle in the last day.

Your advantage for a long time listing is so people get to see it. No advantage to me whatsoever. Smile

But you ask what's the point, well, I hate to be outbid by a bunch of n00bs that have no idea on what the item is worth. You know the morons that just have to have their name listed as the highest bidder, or they think that with my resonably high feedback that it must be worth more than what I'm bidding for it. You love them though as a seller, but I hate them. Seriously, I ask what's the point of having 20 bids on an item with 9 days left before closing? It puts me right off an item straight away even if the amount is less than what I'm willing to pay, I just couldn't be bothered with trying to outbid dumbarses.

In the end though, if the item is worth anything, you generally will get a good price even with last minute snipe wars. I personally have had to pull out of some of them due to the price going to ridiculous prices in the last 2 minutes. Seriously, you'll usually end up with at least 5 people who have watched the item for it's entire duration only to have them war with each other within the last 60 seconds. You'll have an item go from $1 to $100+ easily in that short timeframe if it's worth that much, and typically those that snipe like myself actually know what the item should be worth 2nd hand.

So some hints to you:

1. Have a start price of what you think that the item should be worth. If noone bids at all, then it's a good indication it's too high, so just relist with a lower price next time.

2. Have a buy it now option along with a lower starting bid. EG: have a buy it now for $50 and a starting bid of $30 or so.

3. Pictures and information. It's really annoying to see a 3 page auction listing with only a 20 word description and the rest is just shitty borders, unrelated pictures and 500 words on your terms and conditions. All I want is as much info on the item as possible, pictures all around the item, and your exact location and postcode to determine postage instead of just "australia" as location.

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