20 Nov
2006
20 Nov
'06
7:17 a.m.
From: "William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at
gmail.com>
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People do indeed search for some of these common words if they are new
to Ebay or a specific field of collecting.
There is a point to many of the apparently wasteful or silly things
that Ebay sellers do. Those things get positive results. If the
results were insignificant or negative, then experienced sellers would
not do them.
Hi
How does the seller know that if he could have had 15 bidders vrs 3 bidders.
There is no feedback that the seller might be aware of. I find it difficult
to
believe that even an inexperienced buyer would be looking for the words
vintage when thousands of these will come up. One might put such into
there text but in the title line it is just waste valuable text space.
This might be useful if there were only one or two others, making this
title page unique but not when they are on every item.
As for reserves, you are right that the right buyer may not be looking at
the
time. That is why they have starting prices. A seller that is really
intending to
sell an item might start the price at about 75% of the expected price.
That way, if he only gets one bottom feeder, no big loss. Other wise,
he has captured several people that do know what the item is worth.
It is just like fishing, using too big of a hook catches no fish and not
using enough bate attracts few fish.( Sorry about the comparision of
buyer to fish ).
Dwight
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