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Re: no reserves on aussie ebay
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lugnet.loc.au
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Wed, 21 Jul 2004 04:50:31 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Pete White wrote:
> Got an email from ebay(australia) saying they were getting rid of 'reserve'
> amounts for auctions. They said it was only for auctions run through .au,
> as opposed to running auctions in other currencies like in US$ which means
> they would run as per normal (with a 'reserve' auction).
> ebay.de may have had a similar policy mentioned in the email.
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> The email stated the majority of members favoured this change, though I guess
> there are more buyers than sellers as members. Anyone here express an opinion
> either way to ebay ?
I'd ponder how their sample size compared to Lego's colour change sample size,
but I'd just be accused of stirring up trouble about... well... you know... ;-)
> They also claimed a higher auction clearance rate, which isn't surprising if
> starting bids are lower than the value of the item ;^)
My eBay purchases are pretty much restricted to bargains, and few of those
reserve prices are ever anything approaching a bargain. ;-)
> Anyone else getting SPAM disguised as 'Questions for seller' ?
No, but I get 2 or 3 emails a day telling me that there is some error in my
account, and I need to log on to some dodgy site to correct it.
Hmmm... you've been absent as an eBay seller for a while (iirc)... is
Astrophytum considering a comeback?
Cheers
Richie
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| (...) LEGO's focus group was probably some soccer busloads of soccer moms and some plainloads of NASCAR dads sitting around a (very large)primary coloured table. (...) I have been quietly maintaining an empty closed shop on Bricklick ;^) Though it's (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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