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O/T Ebay ...I Just dont understand it.

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I just dont understand... I listed an item. I got 13 different phone calls probably 13 emails, answered all of them. I had 128 watchers on the item and 2 people bid. WTF! Why watch if you arent going to bid, what is the point? I guess some people they must have waaaayyy tooo much time on their hands.

Maybee watch TV instead!
 
Sounds like it. Neighbor put a tractor on Craigs List a month or two ago,sold that for just $100 under asking price in less than a week.
 
I've always got 30 to 40 items on watch. No need to bid until the last minute. I put a lot of items on watch just because I have one and want to know what they sell for. Same as going to an auction....might watch 100 items sell and not bid all day.
 
I only bid on the Items Iam interested in and only bid what Iam willing to pay for it.I generally lose out in the last hour.
 
Usually have 50 to 75 items on my watch list at any given time. Purchase maybe two items per month on average. When I do, I bid in the last 20 seconds or so to snipe it.

I watch things to keep a sense of the market so when I check the local papers I can spot a deal quickly or know if something is grossly overpriced as well.
 
I have 20-30 watched items most the time and buy maybe one a month. I inderstand the frustration however when I have 50 watchers and in the end zero bids.
 
(quoted from post at 19:22:15 12/02/08) Sounds like it. Neighbor put a tractor on Craigs List a month or two ago,sold that for just $100 under asking price in less than a week.
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rrlund, is there a way to search the whole state, or country for that matter on Craig's list? That's the only downside I can see to it and the ONLY advantage I can find for E-bay.
 
I watch probably twenty items for every one I finally bid on (paper items), sometimes just in case nothing more interesting comes up, sometimes just because I"d like to have it if it seems to be going cheap, or the budget is a little better when the sale gets close.
I bid what I can afford, and if someone wants it more, or has more money, something else interesting will come along, or someone will start copying it and the price will come down.
 
For every item I bid on, I probably watch 20. Some reasons for not bidding:

Price got too high before entering my bid.

Not interested in that exact item, but just trying to get an idea what things are going for.

Minimum or reserve is way too high. (If you're watching something that doesn't sell, you'll get notified when it is relisted.)

Not comfortable with the seller.
 
I look at it this way for those who watch my items are interested in some form or another. That means you have a good item. Usually when I watch an item I'm interested in or know I want one in the future or just to see what mine may be worth. Then I can contact the next highest bidder that didn't win the item and tell him that I have one for sale also and tell him what his bid was because I was watching. Watchers are only your audience, the bidders are the ones who are willing to take the chance. For bidding at the last second I use auctionsniper dot com. You put in the time you want to bid along with the item number and the max amount. No one even knows you're out there. I won quite a few items this way. I do ebay a lot. In 2005 I sold a little over $48,000.00 on there. Mainly just farm equipment for me and for a few other people.
 
I was not aware the seller new the number of watchers but Ive watched plenty and bid few so I could be one of the guys your mad at.
 
How am I supposed to know what the going price is for a tractor if I don't watch sales? I would like to have a Super MDTA. What are they selling for? How about a New Idea 802?

I watch a lot of items, not just tractors. I get a feeling for prices before I bid.

Besides, have you seen what's on TV?
 
I've always wondered why eBay structures its sales so that "sniping" is necessary? Just to generate excitement? Because they could sure generate more income from commissions if they made it so sniping was not necessary, and the item would truly sell for the best price. How to do that? Just extend the end of the auction to not less than one minute from the time of each bid.
 
I agree, if eBay would change it so that the auction ends 5 minutes after the last bid, TONS of extra money would be made and sniping wouldn't be necessary at all, just being awake and online when the auction ends!
 
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