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Re: Ingenous eBay advertising posts
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Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:01:22 GMT
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Kevin Wilson wrote:

I wonder if I am the only one who rolls my eyes when I read eBay
advertising posts which read something like "price still only $x... or
40% of retail cost... and 3 days to go". Some people even sound really
*worried* about it.

This is really silly - anyone who has bid on even a single auction on
eBay, or sold anything, knows that the final value of the lot goes up by
leaps and bounds in the last day, even the last hours, and the price 3
days before the auction ends has absolutely nothing to do with what it
finally goes for.

Call me guilty, I guess... but it DOES build traffic a bit. I am running
my auctions at 10 days right now so if I only flog it at the very start,
it's not very flogged.


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(...) Well.. I've found that flogging on the "days in between" doesn't do much, if anything. I just flog at the beginning and the last-but-one day and that does make a difference. I also have settled on 5 day auctions for most things because really (...) (24 years ago, 26-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)

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I wonder if I am the only one who rolls my eyes when I read eBay advertising posts which read something like "price still only $x... or 40% of retail cost... and 3 days to go". Some people even sound really *worried* about it. This is really silly - (...) (24 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)

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