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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards
Sorry you got shut out of some items you wanted Steve, but I don't understand how you can not watch 24 (or less actually since you said the items you were most interested in, which implies less than everything you bid on) in 15 minutes. Especially because once you place a bid you can ignore that item for 15 minutes to get to the others.
I had a buyer once tell me they were interested in over 100 items in extended bidding. I concede that could get tough.
You see all the people on here complaining about auctions going until all hours. It is rare for us to go much past midnight. We feel what makes our buyers happy will ultimately make our consignors happy. Of course the punchline is there's no way to please everyone. We just have to settle for doing our best.
Thanks for the feedback, but it's just not something we hear nearly as often as we do how much people like being done at a reasonable hour. So, at this point, we're not going to make any changes.
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Thank you for your response Scott. I do like your auctions, and look forward to them more than most. I was especially looking forward to your just concluded one, due to the T207 set break; that is why I'm so passionate about this right now.
I'm just one guy, who's not as young as he used to be, doesn't have the fastest computer service, and likes to have a chance to think through things; but here are my two cents worth:
It seems to me that if you value just getting the auction over with, more than you value striking a balance between giving bidders a fair chance to bid and getting maximum value for your consigners, something is wrong.
What's the point of even having an extended bidding period, if it's only going to be 15 minutes long? In my way of thinking, that does not give bidders enough time to sort through their bids, and determine which ones, if any, they want to raise their bids on.
Why is ending items at 10:15 eastern time, so much better than ending items at 10:30 eastern; especially when there will still be active items beyond that?
You say "It is rare for us to go much past midnight." (I actually like that; I'm not a fan of auctions going past midnight myself). But again, why not make the minimum extended bidding period last a half hour, ending at 10:30 eastern time? You'll still have a low percentage of items going until around midnight, or after.
Steve