BST "Auction" sub-section... thoughts and observations?

[Belfast1933]

Originally Posted by Huck

With the "bump, TTT, lower price" the regular sections are defacto reverse auctions. Instead of trying to extract the highest price possible (nothing wrong with that) through a bidding war, why not just post the price wanted in the regular sections?

Always wanted to ask... what the heck does "TTT" stand for?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Belfast1933

Always wanted to ask... what the heck does "TTT" stand for?

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[rjackson44]

Originally Posted by bnorth

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ben lol

[T2069bk]

I post an auction every few weeks (about once a month or so). I mostly post Baseball but have thrown some Hockey and Football out there over the years. I was just about to post one today when I saw this and figured I would chime in.

Just my $.02 on what has worked for me-
- List for at least 5 days- not everyone looks everyday
- List for a low price - Mine always start between $5 and $20 and often complete for nearly 5x that amount
- Only bump on the last day to avoid bumping someone else's auctions and to make sure people know it is the final day
- Love the recent suggestion of posting end date and time in the titles

I know the guys that are mostly listing there and they are decent fellows, and some of their stuff interests me at times. However it could use a refresh and as much as I know Leon has mentioned not wanting too many sections I think a good fix would be to divide the section into three: High end auctions. Pre 1980 Baseball, and Everything Else.

[Belfast1933]

Originally Posted by bnorth

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10-4, thanks... another mystery solved! (now, if someone can just explain the origin of "Net54" as a forum title!

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Belfast1933

10-4, thanks... another mystery solved! (now, if someone can just explain the origin of "Net54" as a forum title!

Originally Posted by drc

Network54 is a general all purpose online chat boards site and there is where this site started. This board moved to here, it's own site, a couple of years ago.

Hope this helps a little. The post above was from 2010, so it has been a while..

[Belfast1933]

Originally Posted by Eric72

Hope this helps a little. The post above was from 2010, so it has been a while..

Aha... thanks!

[BobbyStrawberry]

Speaking of Net54 mysteries, one I haven't been able to solve is why people bump their BST threads to the top only to say "sold"...

[Fred]

I rarely go to the Auctions section because there's usually non-vintage items for sale. One way to gauge "what sells" in that section is to go through each page and look at the number of bids on the different items. What you'll see are not many posts with > 10 "Replies". If there are > 10 "Replies, then there's a few bids and if you look at the description you will notice that most of those items are vintage.

If you see < 4 "Replies", then it's usually just the original post and the poster letting everyone know it's up for bid and pushing the item back to the top of the list.

Also, look at the number of "Views". If I see a lot of "Views" and not many "Replies", then it's usually something I probably wouldn't want. However, one man's trash is another man's treasure.

Most of the items with a high number of "Replies" and "Views" are vintage and worth reviewing. But there aren't a lot of those.

I used to check this section out more frequently, but I rarely check it out now because of the number of non-vintage items.

Leon, I know you don't like the idea of adding more pages/listings, but could there be only two sections: VINTAGE and Not So Vintage? Set a rule that VINTAGE must be 50+ years old. The only sad part about that is there could be some interesting stuff missed because it's not 50 years old, but that would be the exception rather than the rule (IMHO).

[BRoberts]

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

Speaking of Net54 mysteries, one I haven't been able to solve is why people bump their BST threads to the top only to say "sold"...

Odd flex?