But for every ten items that don't sell at X price, one does sell for even higher. That's what they'll look at, or hope for. Besides how many of them care if they sell it? Some of them, would sooner scrap it than sell it for less than they wanted :^( It's a good idea, but there are drawbacks, including getting it publicized. Though I guess you could always auction the list off :^) Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ |

If you want to drive prices down, go and hunt for the items of interest and sell them cheap. Ebay is just supply and demand. I just sold half a dozen items, and oversupply drove the price of three of them to levels where I would not have accepted the final bids as offers outside of the auction framework. As for the list of not sellers, many people list items at a price very close to the selling price they want, and seem pleased with perhaps as little as half to a quarter of the items selling in a given auction cycle (ie I have 20 widgets, every other day I list one for $9.99 (15/month), only 1/3 sell in each cycle (5/month), so it takes 4 months to sell them all). These are often commodity items where people only look on eBay etc. when they really need them, and wouldn't buy otherwise unless the price was much lower. For example I might have 100 SCSI cables. In an absolute auction (zero starting bids) some days they would sell for $1 each, and other days, when a person really needs one, they might sell for more than $10. If I list them with $9.99 first bid amounts most will not sell, but some will, and eventually all. In my experience NOTHING rational will keep an end user who needs something