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Re: pre-auction announcement
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lugnet.market.auction
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Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:25:48 GMT
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c576653@cclabs.(StopSpammers)missouri.edu
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dkrenz wrote:
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> Chris, you may want to reconsider before you list some of these lots up
> for
> auction. I'm sure you realize each lot will cost you a minimum of .25 to
> go on eBay, plus the final value fee. Browsing thru the list I don't
> see the point of putting some of the lots up. For example, 10 red 2x4
> red bricks,
> let's say someone valued them at .05 each,final value.50 that's .26 to
> ebay,
> and .25 to you. For .25 why not just keep the bricks? 2 yellow 2x8s
> won't
> leave much in your pocket either. I can only guess your reasoning is
> that
> someone may be very interested in a few lots, and as long as they are
> bidding on
> those, they may as well bid on some other smaller lots.
Actually, it's as much an experiment as an attempt to seek maximal
profit. I kept most things broken into lots that I thought would
receive a bid. At $.28 - where I started every single lot - I'll make
no money. $.25 to list and $.03 as comission go to ebay. But I won't
lose either. This may be a flop, but I (and we) will have learned something.
> Sometime in July eBay is going to have a free listing day to make up for
> the
> system problem fiasco they had a few weeks ago. They didn't give an
That would be worth taking advantage of. I'll try to get the next one
ready for that, if I'll do a next one. (Ideally, they'll lose the
system for a day and refund all my fees like they did a couple weeks ago :-)
Thanks for the comments.
--
Sincerely,
Christopher L. Weeks
central Missouri, USA
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| Chris, you may want to reconsider before you list some of these lots up for auction. I'm sure you realize each lot will cost you a minimum of .25 to go on eBay, plus the final value fee. Browsing thru the list I don't see the point of putting some (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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