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What stops you bidding?

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  • porto_bello
    porto_bello Posts: 1,828 Forumite
    bartelbe wrote: »
    Sorry for me private=shill.
    Hear, hear!

    I regularly see paintings listed in private auctions underselling against similar paintings by the same artist, listed with transparent bidding.

    There's little doubt art sellers are losing money by using private listings and therefore eBay losing out too... therefore surprising that eBay allows it to continue!

    All too often, those sellers who do list paintings using private listings show bids forming a pattern of incremental increases (e.g. £49.99, £54.99, £59.99 etc).

    ...If painting buyers have an eye for detail in the painting, they're likely to have an eye for the detail in the bidding! :D
    "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
    ...If you can fake that, you've got it made."
    Groucho Marx
  • soolin
    soolin Posts: 74,408 Ambassador
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    porto_bello wrote: »
    Hear, hear!

    I regularly see paintings listed in private auctions underselling against similar paintings by the same artist, listed with transparent bidding.

    There's little doubt art sellers are losing money by using private listings and therefore eBay losing out too... therefore surprising that eBay allows it to continue!

    All too often, those sellers who do list paintings using private listings show bids forming a pattern of incremental increases (e.g. £49.99, £54.99, £59.99 etc).

    ...If painting buyers have an eye for detail in the painting, they're likely to have an eye for the detail in the bidding! :D

    Those increments are correct though, private or otherwise. Ebay set how the bidding patterns work, not the sellers.
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  • muileach
    muileach Posts: 7 Forumite
    won't post to Scottish Islands.........thats funny as the postman happily delivers here......for EXACTLY the same price as the rest of the UK!!!! Really annoys me as i feel very discriminated :(
  • Goldiegirl
    Goldiegirl Posts: 8,806 Forumite
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    bartelbe wrote: »

    Aggressive listings

    Me too, especially when they complain about their previous buyers, calling them time-wasters etc !
    Early retired - 18th December 2014
    If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough
  • Goldiegirl
    Goldiegirl Posts: 8,806 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Rampant Recycler Hung up my suit!
    muileach wrote: »
    won't post to Scottish Islands.........thats funny as the postman happily delivers here......for EXACTLY the same price as the rest of the UK!!!! Really annoys me as i feel very discriminated :(

    I like it when I sell to the Highlands and Islands. It pleases me to think one of my things is going to somewhere relatively wild and remote!
    Early retired - 18th December 2014
    If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough
  • RHemmings
    RHemmings Posts: 4,894 Forumite
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    I've just lost an auction, finishing at 11:45pm. By 10am this morning, it was back up again. Could be that the seller discovered s/he had a NPB that quickly, but it puts me off. Pity, as I would like the item, and would have been happy to buy it for the original selling price.
  • RFW
    RFW Posts: 10,426 Forumite
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    yoyoegg wrote: »
    BIN with no Best Offer option, so rude!
    I'm assuming that was a joke and I can keep my outrage in a small box.
    .
  • Strapped
    Strapped Posts: 8,158 Forumite
    muileach wrote: »
    won't post to Scottish Islands.........thats funny as the postman happily delivers here......for EXACTLY the same price as the rest of the UK!!!! Really annoys me as i feel very discriminated :(

    Really? Can you tell me how to send flat pack furniture to you for the same price as to the rest of the UK please? Would save me quite a bit of money on my postage costs.
    They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -- Plato
  • muileach
    muileach Posts: 7 Forumite
    Strapped wrote: »
    Really? Can you tell me how to send flat pack furniture to you for the same price as to the rest of the UK please? Would save me quite a bit of money on my postage costs.
    Royal Mail.......as i said......post and postman :)
  • soolin
    soolin Posts: 74,408 Ambassador
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    muileach wrote: »
    Royal Mail.......as i said......post and postman :)

    RM have weight limits and also are very very expensive for heavier goods.
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