Ebay Nonsense

[syntheticrhyme]

I just hate to see stuff like this, but there's an xbox auction on ebay where i'm sure everyone is being misled. The letter O is actually a zero. The auction is at $500. If you are going to pull a stunt like this, please state it in the auction what the characters are.

 

[Nerz]

I guess when you look at it...sniping is good for buyers, bad for sellers and ebay. Id imagine since the widespread adoption of sniping, ebay has suffered lower final commission fee's...what makes up for it is the ever increasing stream of new ebayers, as the internet enters more and more homes, and the professionalism of many ebay sellers these days who treat it as a job, and make a living from it.

Its bad for sellers on a couple fronts:

- "possibly" lower overall sale price because you dont get competition between buyers
- less people browsing your auction because the fewer bids on it, the less attraction it will garner from those surfing ebay's listings. Look at it this way, if you see a full page of forum posts, and out of the page there are 10 threads with no replies, and 1 thread with 5 replies, which do you think your going to look at first?. The one with the action off course....thats just instinct. Again this may lower the selling price.

Couple of ways a seller can overcome this i guess:
- start at a higher price, which will dissuade buyers off course, but thats an option
- cancel the listing if there are no showing bids. Ive seen a lot of sellers do this, and actually tell buyers in the listing they reserve the right to pull the listing at any time. You loose your insertion fee, but thats the price you pay.

Ebay is really a clearance house i guess. I think if your going to list really good domains on there, you either start low and cancel if no interest, or start at the lowest figure your prepared to accept.

 

[floatingworld]

a seller who regularly pulls his/her products before the auction end is going to get a bad reputation amongst ebayers. If you sell you MUST be prepared to sell at the opening price if that is all that is reached...and the lower the starting price the lower the listing fee. Sellers are less likely to pull once there is a legit bid on the table so the sniper might park an opening low bid just to get the ball rolling. You can get 3 free snipes a week at www.auctionstealer.com good website interface and friendly usability. Worth also buying their services on occasion.

 

[SimpleDomaining]

hope nobody bid on it. i hat when pepole lie or telling half tru, or some version of true.
and hate advertisings on tv, where is some big disclaimer text written with very small letters, so you would not be able to read it. yakhq

 

[Ray]

What I hate is $10/$15 Shipping/Handling charges for a Domain name
and I know some NPer's do it , but it is a little irksome.

when they do that.. they transfer the domain for you, or even register it for another year. I no alot of people who do such sort

 

[DOMiNIC]

I have often wondered if there is possibly some traffic from misspelt domains with a '0' instead of an 'o'. The reason is that the '0' is ontop of the 'o' on keyboards and if you have big fat fingers like me its easy to hit the '0' instead and not notice the mistake on screen. I have done this many times.

Am I the only one with fat fingers?

 

[Masahiro]

Also people new to computers who use the "hunt and peck" method of typing often type [0] instead of [o].