eBay mis-spelling bargains

carnet

welf_man wrote:

If someone thinks they may be disappointed if the item doesn't reach a reasonable amount, they set a reserve, surely? I always do when I sell on eBay.

Minimum eBay reserve is now £50 so not really feasible for (probably) the vast majority of items sold. Can't understand why eBay did this, makes absolutely no sense to me . They justified it by saying something about many sellers not using the reserve system correctly :rolleyes:. Tough, thats their problem :mad:

As eBay charge sellers for setting reserve prices thats another reason I find their decision ridiculous.

Many of the items I sell are in the £20-£40 range and I used to set reserves just under these figures and a start price of £4.99. Now I'm forced to start at a much higher price and this has resulted in fewer bids, on average.

Am I the only one who finds many of eBay's so-called "enhancements" actually backward steps which make life more difficult for sellers ?

chrisw

The high starting price starts the deception off, £250 for a link? I see he's also selling ipod minis links starting at £30. This is only a 3 day auction, presumably to get the money before the 'laptop' winner complains.

welf_man

Thanks for that, Carnet - I haven't sold recently so didn't know that - though I had been planning to, so will have to rethink.

It does seem as though eBay is starting to align itself towards traders and full-time sellers - what a shame.

Maybe all us little people need to start thinking about going elsewhere?

Mel.

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