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Re: ebay rant
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lugnet.market.auction
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Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:19:47 GMT
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Lawrence Wilkes wrote in message ...
> Just wanted to moan about ebay.
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> Too many rubbish auctions getting in the way
Agreed. I wish eBay would give us subdivisions of the Lego category (new
sets, used sets, new parts, used parts, other)
> 1. ridiculous start price. It's like setting a reserve, but without • incurring a penalty if no one bids, as I understand
> it. Who they trying to kid?
There's no penalty as such if you set a reserve and no-one bids, but you pay
a listing fee according to the higher of your reserve or starting price. So
there's no advantage in setting a high start price over a high reserve,
except that it lets the buyers see what the deal is right from the
beginning. A lot of people hate reserves because they are hidden.
> 2. repeat listing. Having failed to get a response due to 1, they just • simply relist the same item at the same price, ad
> infinitum. Why do they bother?
They only get to do this free once.
> 6. Long running auctions. Dont know what the mechanism is, havent put • anything up for sale recently, but I notice
> auctions now running with an end date over a month away! And the same • people will then do point 2 at the end of the
> month as well.
These are not auctions, but items in a sellers "eBay store". The display
method for these is pretty misleading, it's hard to tell them apart from
auctions, but they are fixed price items.
> What's your pet ebay hate?
Millions of tiny lots for stupid prices
People start-pricing their lots as a one-shot, win it for the opening bid
deal, rather than starting low for a genuine auction.
Kevin
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