eBay disaster - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Apr 2010

well, you got what you listed then. eBay is no way a guarantee of getting a good price.
You wanted a better price? Then you needed to set a minimum or a reserve price. If it sold
then great, if it didn't then keep it longer or lower your price. English only, fine.
You already have decided that I don't know what I am doing. I have only been selling
on eBay since the late nineteen-hundreds. You asked for ideas and then discounted them.
What you did - didn't work.

Maybe you will be luckier next time.

regards, Steve Thatcher

BTW, missed the photo of an actual disk pack - It was buried farther down. The only thing
I remembered from the listing was seeing a box and a comment about language.

-----Original Message-----
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 From: Philipp Hachtmann <hachti at hachti.de>
Sent: Apr 5, 2010 3:26 PM
To: General Discussion at null, On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at
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Subject: Re: eBay disaster

  I am assuming that you were hoping for a higher
selling price... Yes, of course!

  First of all, you should have set a reserve price
on the auction or a minimum bid of what you
 wanted to "at least" get from the auction. Puh.. A minimum is possible.
But a reserve? I feel uncomfortable when I see this "reserve not met" 
thing in other auctions. So I don't really like that idea.

  The buyer (whatever his rating) may have just
signed
 up. Yes. That's the reason why I refused to limit the group of people who are
allowed to bid. If this 
should turn out to be a scam, I'll think different when it comes to further offers.

  I think I would have included the native language
write up rather than just in English. Oh, why? Because of my bad English? The chance
to sell this kind of stuff to someone in Germany is 
quite a bit lower than selling it to elsewhere (i.e. US) in the world. So I decided to
write in 
English only.

  Second, sometimes just a picture of a box is just
what a buyer gets. I would have taken pictures
 of the box insides or even included a stock photo of what the disk pack is that is in the
box. If you looked at the pictures I have put onto the auction you should have seen
that I actually have 
photographed a pack lying on the box. Another one, of course. I did not want to open the
box - 
opening the box would have spoiled the whole thing.