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question about ebay
Posted By: tom
is it right to end auction early if someone offers to but item before auction ends .if so how do i end auction if i choose to do so |
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question about ebay
Posted By: Marc S.
I mean -- it's your own choice, but it will develop a negative reputation for yourself. |
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Posted By: tom
ty but if there r no other bidders wouldnt it be like a buy it now |
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question about ebay
Posted By: runscott
As a buyer, if there was an item I wanted badly, I would contact the Seller and ask him to add a "BIN" and then email me. |
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question about ebay
Posted By: Rob
In the first place I think 10 day auctions are a waste of everybody's time. Scott you said yourself most of us snipe at the last minute anyway, why make us wait ten days. Three day auctions are the way to go. What do you think? Rob |
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question about ebay
Posted By: jay behrens
10 days are waste both of time and the extra money it costs, but 3 days is way too short. Not everyone access the internet as frequently as we do, so want to get maximum exposure for lot. |
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question about ebay
Posted By: David
My feeling is, that if there are no bidders, it's acceptable to end an auction and sell it outright. If there is a single bid, then the auction should go to the end. This is only my opinion, and I'm not telling others what to do or what they should do. |
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question about ebay
Posted By: runscott
When the market was hot, I ran 5-day auctions rather than 7-days, and thought 10 days were a waste. What I'm finding now is that fewer people are scouring ebay for cards the way they used to (including me), so I get a better return by giving the card extra exposure - and the additional cost is almost nothing (I think 10 cents?). I think that once the card market picks up again I can go back to 7-day or even 5-day auctions. |
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question about ebay
Posted By: TBob
I have been setting all my auctions lately for 10 days because with the glut of trash from libertyforall and massive listings of series cards, it takes a lot of patience and persistence to search through everything. Granted 10 days makes some cards seem "stale" but if a sniper finds something he is looking for, he can just simply set his software and forget about it, or if not using the software, can bookmark it in "my ebay" and come back to it. Getting rid of the 1930-1950 cards has helped, to a degree, but as a sometime seller I find that you occasionally need that 10 day exposure to have your items seen. |
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question about ebay
Posted By: David
My feeling is that, considering the time to take/upload pictures and write the little description, I'm going to milk it for all it's worth (10 days). |
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question about ebay
Posted By: runscott
...at least. Also, now I can list items whenever I have free time, rather than waiting until "ideal auction time" and then trying to get them all done at once. The final advantages are that it is much more user friendly and you can create folders within the tool to store your listings, then up-load to ebay whatever and whenever you are ready. I keep folders according to categories (cards,publications,gloves, etc.), then move items to an auction folder to prepare. |
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question about ebay
Posted By: David
Agree. I use and like turbolister. I'm an a nightowl by nature, and turbolister allows my auctions to start when the rest of the world is awake, not just me and other midnight fauna. |
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question about ebay
Posted By: jay behrens
where/how do you get turbolister? |
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question about ebay
Posted By: Brian C Daniels
I was begining to think you knew everything! |
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question about ebay
Posted By: T206Monsta
but having sold a few things on the bay like many others here, I have found that EVERY time someone has contacted me to buy the item outright, I received a HIGHER bid (sometimes much higher) when I let the auction ride out. I actually think you should ride it out because if someone is so interested in it, I bet many others as indicated in this thread are waiting to snipe it. |
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question about ebay
Posted By: Rob
So what is this guys excuse. Stopped auction on the last day because he just remembered he needed the card for his collection? Check out reason on bid history. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1576220052&rd=1 |
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question about ebay
Posted By: T206Monsta
You'll never really know as others have pointed out but I bet he decided to sell short of his "BIN" price because there was very little action. YOu can't believe the reasons, they're BS. It's an easy way out. |
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question about ebay
Posted By: runscott
Lee takes the podium... |
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question about ebay
Posted By: Lee Behrens
Hi, I was the one that pulled that card off. The options ebay gives you are not the same for cancelling bids and cancelling the auction. My explanation was the truth, I also acidentally sold a T206 Crawford I needed for my collection last week, didn't realize it until after the auction, but the second bidder inquired about the BIN price which was $38, he said he was willing to pay that price, which i agreed to since he bought 5 more of my cards on the Buy Now. |
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question about ebay
Posted By: Lee Behrens
By the way it was not the last day of the auction if you look at the list ing time, it was a 5 day auction. |
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question about ebay
Posted By: Robert
Hum not 5 days it started on Oct 29 and ended on Nov 2. It was stoped on Nov 2 lets see adds up 5 days to me. I think. |
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question about ebay
Posted By: runscott
Some guy named 'runscott' has a beautiful Lajoie portrait running for another 7 days. |
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