fairfox
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Post by fairfox on Apr 10, 2007 22:15:54 GMT -4
They have increased the amount, GG - it just isn't showing (it'll show if someone else bids a higher amount than the current price). I explained that badly, sorry.
And, I may be weird, but often the 'amateur-ish' photos are reassuring to me as a buyer - too many sellers use stock photos (and I am damned skeptical of any seller using only stock photos) - the home-made photos often make me feel better about an item. I have sold a few things and have noticed that I have to keep an eye on auctions after my sale, as I have had my (crappy, badly-lit) photos stolen a number of times. Yours are better than any of mine. Damn, it's all so addictive *I* am excited to see what you get for it!
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mrpancake
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Post by mrpancake on Apr 10, 2007 22:36:25 GMT -4
They have increased the amount, GG - it just isn't showing (it'll show if someone else bids a higher amount than the current price). I explained that badly, sorry. And, I may be weird, but often the 'amateur-ish' photos are reassuring to me as a buyer - too many sellers use stock photos (and I am damned skeptical of any seller using only stock photos) - the home-made photos often make me feel better about an item. I have sold a few things and have noticed that I have to keep an eye on auctions after my sale, as I have had my (crappy, badly-lit) photos stolen a number of times. Yours are better than any of mine. Damn, it's all so addictive *I* am excited to see what you get for it! I totally agree - stock photos are often an indicator that the thing someone is selling is fake or fucked up in some way.
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grumpygirl
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Post by grumpygirl on Apr 10, 2007 23:57:43 GMT -4
Thanks, I was feeling bad that the photos were so bad. I just felt rushed to take them because the girl in the frame shop was busy. I told her I'd be fine and could do it alone but she seemed to want to help in a martyred kind of way. This chick had so many tattoos and piercings that it was rather intimidating. Anyhow, the one of the seal turned out particularly badly. Le sigh.
It is like crack. I can't stop looking and refreshing. I can't wait until Thursday when the auction ends to see what happens if there are 24 people watching. I'm sorry to sound stupid, but does that mean that they're watching to see how high the bid goes before they jump in? Does that mean that there might be more bidders? Do there tend to be lots of bidders?
I'm so new to all of this and so excited. Oh, and I'll let you all know when the doxies go up for sale.
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fairfox
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Post by fairfox on Apr 11, 2007 1:53:10 GMT -4
Don't get your hopes up. Watchers mean basically nothing. Sometimes watchers bid an item up to insane amounts, sometimes no-one does anything. I haven't sold more than 10 items on eBay and that's one thing I learned - do not count on the watchers! For they be fickle beasts! But I am still crossing my fingers for a bunch of snipers to come in at the end.
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thingamajig
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Post by thingamajig on Apr 11, 2007 6:59:16 GMT -4
It depends. I watch a lot of stuff just because I'm curious to see what it goes for, not because I plan to bid on it. But of course, if I have a snipe set for something, I'll watch it then, too.
Oh, I hate that! I watch and bid on a lot of auctions for baby wraps, and so many sellers use stock photos. There are only a few stock photos circulating around for each carrier, so basically most of us have seen all of them before and it's very obvious when someone is using one. If I'm bidding on a $50 or $100 piece of fabric, I want to see the actual item, not glossy professional shots of the Platonic ideal of that item.
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dragonfly80
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Post by dragonfly80 on Apr 11, 2007 9:46:35 GMT -4
I'm sorry to sound stupid, but does that mean that they're watching to see how high the bid goes before they jump in? Does that mean that there might be more bidders? Do there tend to be lots of bidders? I'm so new to all of this and so excited. Oh, and I'll let you all know when the doxies go up for sale. I've sold a lot on Ebay and in my experience the higher the watchers, the higher the price I get. But I've also sold a lot of items that are kind of random, like airplane parts. That's catering to a specific niche of buyers out there, much like your poster. It's not like a popular video game or brand name purse that's going to appeal to more buyers and will be easy to find again. I think that since you have a pretty unique item (limited edition, popular collectors item, framed) that your watchers are going to bid it up even more at the end. That's the fun of Ebay, swooping in at the last minute and bidding it away from someone!
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grumpygirl
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Post by grumpygirl on Apr 11, 2007 10:45:18 GMT -4
I'm sorry to sound stupid, but does that mean that they're watching to see how high the bid goes before they jump in? Does that mean that there might be more bidders? Do there tend to be lots of bidders? I'm so new to all of this and so excited. Oh, and I'll let you all know when the doxies go up for sale. I've sold a lot on Ebay and in my experience the higher the watchers, the higher the price I get. But I've also sold a lot of items that are kind of random, like airplane parts. That's catering to a specific niche of buyers out there, much like your poster. It's not like a popular video game or brand name purse that's going to appeal to more buyers and will be easy to find again. I think that since you have a pretty unique item (limited edition, popular collectors item, framed) that your watchers are going to bid it up even more at the end. That's the fun of Ebay, swooping in at the last minute and bidding it away from someone! Thanks for the info! Oooh, this is very exciting. I'm trying to get work done and not spend the day looking at what my auction is doing. ETA: I have 25 26 watchers now. That seems exciting to me. There's one person who keeps bidding so I think that they really want this poster. I'm sure that I'll never have this good of a sale again so I'm enjoying it while it lasts! Oh, and what's a "snipe?"
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pamster
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Post by pamster on Apr 11, 2007 17:42:54 GMT -4
GG, A "snipe" is someone who, as Dragonfly8 said, swoops in at the last minute and wins the item with the highest bid, often without having made any previous bids. I believe there are programs out there that you can get that will actually do that for you. Doesn't exactly seem fair to me.
And the person who bid twice and the bid price didn't change? They raised their maximum bid to ensure no one would outbid them at the last minute. I did that myself last week because I really wanted a pair of earrings. I raised my max from $31 to $36 because somebody made a bid in between which didn't outbid me, but was close enough to make me nervous. I won the item at $26.50, but put the cushion in because I didn't think anybody else would want them that badly. You can put a huge maximum bid in on anything if you want to, I suppose, but you have to be prepared to actually pay that amount if the auction goes that high.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2007 17:58:53 GMT -4
Why is it unfair? I always bid at the last possible second. Why should I start a bidding war and jack up the price for an item I want?
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fairfox
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Post by fairfox on Apr 11, 2007 19:25:08 GMT -4
I think pamster meant the sniping programs. I snipe everything I want, but I don't use those programs because it seems to cheapen the eBay 'thing' for me (/purist - ha) but I am not against them being used. And sometimes you can't be around when the auction ends. I *hate* it when 2 idiots bid something up and up and up. I saw a sweater (retail $200-ish) sell recently for over $800 because 2 bidders got into a pissing match over it. It was entertaining for those of us watching, though.
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