REA question

[spacktrack]

We had the feature and removed it during the most recent revamp of the website. We found that the system was inundated with thousands of offers to purchase cards at 50% more than they sold for originally but 20% of what they’d sell for today, offers on cards sold so long ago that they’d traded hands multiple times since then, or offers on more recently sold items that didn’t really incentivize the buyers to sell. While we passed along the offers, the response rates varied, and it became a lot to manage. We did facilitate many sales through the feature, including some significant items, but until we could build a better mousetrap, we opted to hide it. We still get emails daily through the website, and we’re happy to pass them along to the buyer where it makes sense.

Brian

[conor912]

Originally Posted by spacktrack

We had the feature and removed it during the most recent revamp of the website. We found that the system was inundated with thousands of offers to purchase cards at 50% more than they sold for originally but 20% of what they’d sell for today, offers on cards sold so long ago that they’d traded hands multiple times since then, or offers on more recently sold items that didn’t really incentivize the buyers to sell. While we passed along the offers, the response rates varied, and it became a lot to manage. We did facilitate many sales through the feature, including some significant items, but until we could build a better mousetrap, we opted to hide it. We still get emails daily through the website, and we’re happy to pass them along to the buyer where it makes sense.

Brian

Thanks, Brian. At least I'm not crazy

Maybe you could have the minimum offer be 50% above the sale price and you do it for just the last, say 3 auctions? Or the last 2 years or something....that would help alleviate some of the time passage issues you mention. Just a thought.