@youshouldseewhatikeep wrote:
Hey guys. In your opinion what is the best time of day for an auction to end and why? What do u think the biggest day for sales would be? I'm gonna try doing sunday afternoons/evening. I figure people will be around on their computers then.
Any other input?
If I sold both domestic and internationla what would the best time be to end a listing?
There are some good answers here, and as with most things eBay, "it depends".
If you're selling Stratocasters (that's an electric guitar), Sunday morning early is probably a bad idea, most buyers of that product are asleep then (assuming you're targeting a U.S. audience). Saturday night might not be good either, since the reason they're sleeping Sunday morning is they're out partying/playing on Sat. night. Similarly, Christianity related products probably aren't a good candidate for Sunday morning (buyers are at church).
Traditionally, more people tend to end auctions on Sunday, although I don't know if eBay has managed to stamp out that tradition over the years (they're doing pretty good at stamping out Auctions in general).
Sundays are popular with what I sell, always have been, and I end mine then. Most of my sales are to U.S. / Canada, I tend to ignore Asia/Australia/Europe in that calculus... although if I suspect demand is going to be strong in one of those places, I'll at least try to avoid 3 am in that time zone.
I would be tempted to do some Auction Only research for your particular items... see if you can find any day/time in common for items that sell for very high prices (or similar commonalities in awful low prices realized, to avoid those).
As it happens, I buy the same stuff I sell, all Auction format. I'm a bottom feeder, if I won your item, you're probably unhappy with the price it brought. I win a disproportionate number of listings on Fridays, so as a seller I would avoid Fridays in that category.
Thursday night is "maintenance night" and my Watch List is sometimes non-op on Thurs. night, so I avoid ending my items then too.
I sell a lot to repeat buyers. I always end my items on the same day / approx. same time every week, so my repeat buyers know when to expect the items to end (about half my bids come at the end).
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