28 Apr
2003
28 Apr
'03
6:28 a.m.
At 17:45 28/04/2003, you wrote:
Here is another interesting thing about sniping. I
hear people all the
time saying that sniping hurts sellers.
However, I have never seen a seller that doesn't like sniping. It's
always a bidder that complains and never the experienced seller.
I'm extremely tempted to agree with you on this (although I should point
out that I don't really give a monkeys about sniping/not sniping - all of
the auctions I've not won, I wouldn't have paid the final price even if I'd
known it in advance).
The only thing I'd say, which may or may not be seen as a disagreement, is
that we don't /know/ that the eBay fixed end-time model does - or does not
- hurt sellers. Sure, sniping ups the ante in the last few seconds much of
the time - but would it have gone higher with an extending auction? Until
(if) eBay try it, we will never know...
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Cheers, Ade.
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