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Subject: 
Re: pre-auction announcement
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.auction
Date: 
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 14:25:48 GMT
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c576653@cclabs.missouri.NOSPAMedu
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dkrenz wrote:
> 
> 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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  Re: pre-auction announcement
 
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 (...) (27 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.auction)

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