Does anyone pay attention to ebay enhanced features

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Posted By: warshawlaw

Let's say I have a valuable card I want to sell and I want to be sure it isn't lost in the shuffle. How do you react to listings that are offered with the ebay special features (like gallery, featured listing, listing in contrasting colors or in a box)? Is there one feature or another that you've found especially useful in selling cards?

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Posted By: Bob S

Hi Warsh,

As an ebay member since mid'97, I pay the same attention to the eBay "enhanced features" as I do the large balloons that used car dealers sometime fly above their locations.

I think if my item is old, rare, scarce, highly graded, highly "gradeable", or has some other special characteristic, the folks interested in such an item will find it.

If the item is "run of the mill", then I think nothing in the "enhancement" options will make much of a difference. JMHO.

Bob S

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Posted By: Kyle Leeds-Tilley

I pay attention to some of the features. Proboly the most would be the gallery, as I see the item right at the top of my page and when I scroll through the rest of the listings. I'd say i'm two times as likely to click on a gallery listing compared to a non-enhanced one.

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

I just do searches and pay absolutely no attention to any of that stuff.

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Posted By: jay behrens

The only feature that is worthwhile is the gallery feature as it puts a picture of the card next to the auction title after you've done a search. It's cheap and far more effective than bold type and colored title. The only time the featured gallery listing is worthwhile is if you 20 or more auctions going all at the same time. Do it for item and the click thru rate to your auctions is pretty good. The reason I say 20 plus auctions is that it spreads the cost across those auctions and makes it $1 or less per auction.

Jay

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

I agree that when you're a buyer of vintage, expensive cards, usually the search function finds your auctions for you and not bold, gallery pics, etc.

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Posted By: Keith

The only one I would pay for is the gallery option. I know personally when I am doing some casual ebay searching, sometimes I only scan down the scroll and look at the gallery photos. If it doesn't have a gallery photo I skip it.

I know personally, I have alot more sucess selling with the gallery option, and usually get better prices that pays for the extra .35 cents or whatever. With that said, these items are not vintage cards, but rather newer stuff like mini helmets. The gallery offers a sort of impulse buy like option when people see the little photo

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Posted By: Dave Williams

I never use them, and don't pay attention to them at all.

There are too many people using bold print to highlight their T206 reprint set anyway, so I've just learned to ignore the bold print, and the little photo is too small to give me any real idea anyway.

I only look up stuff with a decent description, or stuff with a really lousy description, hoping everyone else has missed it (which unfortunately never happens).

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Posted By: Cat

If it is a high dollar item, I always sell using the Supersize option (it costs 75 cents). On a couple of rare occasions there was something in the scan format that would disallow Supersizing and so I would state that in the description and also state that I would gladly e-mail my detailed scans.

If someone is selling a high dollar ungraded item and does not use the Supersize option I figure there is something in the detail that they do not want me to see (supersized scans are real cheap when compared to a multi-hundred dollar card). I am not one that will often e-mail the sender for enlarged scans so I normally just move along and forget about the auction if I have any doubts about the card quality.

Edited to correct typos unless otherwise noted.

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Adam,

I, for one, don't pay much attention to the different symbols after the item description or bold or colored test in the item description. The two functions that catch my attention are the thumbnail image next to the item description and the gallery items. You can't miss the gallery items because they're right on top of the listings.

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Posted By: boysblue

I agree with the majority....the gallery is the one feature that entices me to have a closer look.

David

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Posted By: Josh K.

other than the one comment above - does anyone else agree that supersized pics are a worthwhile selling point. I have always provided supersized pics, but if no one cares, I may stop that practice.

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Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)

Josh,

The large images/graphics are a definite PLUS when selling an item. I always use large scans when I sell something. It's better to provide a detailed description (disclose all defects) and large scan than have to deal with a returned item.

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Posted By: Cobby33

When buying and selling, I always use the gallery photo option. If I'm selling a high-end item, I will go ahead and pay the $30 or whatever to do the pink background, bold, etc. When I don't have time to browse (as a buyer), those features do get my eye and if it's a $1000+ card, it's worth the cost.

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Posted By: Bob S

Great comments, folks. I learned some nuance from your opinions.

Bob S