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Re: Ingenous eBay advertising posts
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lugnet.market.theory
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Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:01:22 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.IHATESPAMcom
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Kevin Wilson wrote:
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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.
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> 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 (...) (25 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 - (...) (25 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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