IGNORE!!! Re: E-bay complaints: was Re: "Response" from seller with the "Apple-1"

[Joe R.]

   Where did this come from??  It must have been sitting in the queue for a
couple of weeks. IGNORE IT! We don't need to rehash this old argument.

    Joe

At 05:20 PM 7/25/05 -0400, you wrote:
>At 12:31 PM 7/4/05 -0400, you wrote:
>>if you would set the starting price to what you wanted instead of trying to 
>>save money on listing fees, then you would not have to play games.
>
>  What does the starting price have to do with people bidding at the last
>minute?? I don't see any connection.
>
>   I always start my auctions cheap. First I don't see any reason to enrich
>E-bay any more than necessary but also I frequently don't know the value of
>an item and it's simple to start it cheap and let the market place set the
>price. I've used E-bay for almost ten years and I've watched the prices of
>certain items closely and I've frequently found tht people will not bid on
>items that start high even though the same item will bring more than the
>same high starting price when started at a lower price and allowed to
>escalate naturally.
>
> You have 
>>decided to make life more difficult for you on eBay. It is not the late 
>>bidders or eBay that has the problem.
>
>  It IS the late bidding that was the problem in this case!!!! He waited
>too long and forgot to bid! Explain how the starting price had any bearing
>on that if you can.
>
>
>>
>>I have gone on eBay, done a new type of search, found and then bid on items 
>>that were down to their last minutes. You technique keeps people from 
>>finding the item at the last minute.
>
>  You said "done a new type of search,".  If you had done the same search
>earlier you would have found exactly the same items!
>
>   Joe
>
>>
>>At 12:04 PM 07/04/2005, you wrote:
>>>One problem.....I have gotten so irritated by last minute bids....
>>>when after all I paid for 7 days of bids....that I now pull any item
>>>that does NOT have a bid at 6 Hours before the end (that misses you).
>>>I will also sometimes up the ante rather than pull the item, sometimes
>>>by 5X.  This is to discourage last minute bidders.  This really works
>>>if you put the bidders on notice in your description that you plan on
>>>doing this.  They, then, will decide wheather to "S*** or get off the
>>>pot" as we used to say at the poker table in the old days.
>>
>>
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