COMPLETED AUCTION on Net54, Mullins T206 sold!!

[FrankWakefield]

This auction here wasn't bumped to the top to generate interest.

I do see some regular BSTs that get bumped because the seller is lowering their price. I'm not sure what the harm is in that, Adam...

I recall when I first found the old board I posted something about buying or selling, I forget which, on the regular board, not understanding that it should be on the other side. I was shot down for that, which I found annoying at the time, even though it was done fairly nicely. So I left the place alone for a year or two... Still, today, someone will do what I did years ago. And we jump on them, and they go away. Now that I'm here I see that buying and selling on the regular board would detract from what we strive to do, but on the main board there's more visibility. To create yet another place to look for a card transaction seems an ineffective and incorrect way to deal with it. So rename it BATS for BuyAuctionTradeSell. Or maybe Adam is right, and if he is why stop where he says, with two places, BST and A? Change it to four places, B and S and T and A. No, one place is enough, BATS.

[Rob D.]

Adam makes a valid point.

[caramelcard]

I definitely agree with Adam,

This auction was a great idea, but I don't want to see a $15 auction or a $1000 auction on the B/S/T with 10-20 posts if they're going to increase in frequency.

Rob

[Anthony S.]

I agree with Adam. It's one thing if there's only one or two auctions running in a category on the BST. But if the idea catches on, and I sense it will, fixed price sales are going to routinely get knocked pretty far down the forum pretty quickly. I know from personal experience, ie the page view counter on my imageevent website, that when my sales listings are at the top of a BST forum I get a helluva lot more page views than I do when they get knocked down a few spots. And that translates to sales. And if someone is trying to sell 20 separate cards and they keep getting knocked further down the forum by multiple auctions in which people are raising bids for a solitary card from $7 to $7.50, I can see it becoming very frustrating for sellers.

All that being said, I like Frank's initiative and I think auctions will enhance the BST experience, but if a separate category can be created without too much hassle for the moderators, then it should.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

This auction here wasn't bumped to the top to generate interest.

I know it's not you Frank, rather it's just the nature of "the auction format" of selling things that is responsible. That's why I think people using this format going forward should not post here, rather they should post in the section of the B/S/T already designed specifically for "vintage card auctions."

Take a look at the sheer number of replies to your original posting that it took to successfully sell a single T206 common (it took 14 by my count). Now compare that to the average number of replies to sell something via the long-standing fixed price format (usually 3 or less). And remember, each reply represents a "bump to the top," which, of course, results in someone else being "pushed to the bottom."

An auction format sale, not conducted in the existing "vintage card auctions" section of the B/S/T, is just not fair to those who use the long-standing fixed price format in my opinion.

I entirely agree there is a place for auctions in this forum, and you did a great job of raising awareness. I am just questioning where the appropriate "home" for those auctions is . . . . and in my opinion it is in the existing and appropriately named "vintage card auctions" section of the B/S/T. It is a detriment to others for auctions to be conducted anywhere else (as, for example, evidenced by the sheer number of replies, or "bumps to the top," that it took to successfully sell a single T206 common).

[chaddurbin]

if this "n54 auction" idea catches on...i want to throw my hat in as the official payment processor for a "safe" and "worry-free" experience. i will only take 2.5% as opposed to paypal's 3%.

[FrankWakefield]

Quan....


I shipped the card before payment was received. We didn't need a safe conduit for payment, we weren't concerned about payment or shipment.

Still, others might benefit from your kind offer!! Quanpay, the safe, sure way to transfer money!