ebay sellers: answering questions = increased profit

[Runscott]

I sent a seller a couple of questions 9 hours before his auctions ended tonight, and never got a response. If the answers had been what I think they would have, he would definitely have made more money tonight.

Sellers - if you have a big night of auctions ending, for heaven's sake - answer bidder questions. If you don't have time to answer questions, then end your auctions on a night when you DO have time.

This seller generally sells on consignment. Knowing now that he doesn't respond to questions, I would never consider consigning through him, and if anyone asked me about consignments, that's what I would tell them.

I really, really wanted to bid on these items, but I did not. If I had bid 'blindly' and won, then waited to hear back from him before paying, I could have ended up in a position of having to ask that the transaction be cancelled.

This sucked