every 'watch' your own item to stimulate interest?

[dealsagent]

although eBay might keep sending you updates about your own item and when it sells they'll apologize to you for missing out and direct you to a similuar item

[emerald40]

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@omgitlightsup wrote:

Here's another one some of you may not recall. eBay used to show you the IDs of every bidder in all past and current auctions.

It was great to be able to email a bidder who'd missed out on a purchase and let him know you've got another similar item for sale.

And I'm sorry if this angers you, nobrakes, but counter-sniping paid off for me. It made my items sell for higher prices than when I let them sit with no activity until the last minute.

You may not buy into the frenzy of auction bidding, and that has to be a respectable feat of self-control... but most people do.

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I remember when names were not hidden and when sellers would bombard you with their so called similar listing.

I also remember as a buyer sniping someone at the last minute and being called every name possible by the digruntled bidder who lost.

[emerald40]

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@*help_no_brakes* wrote:

" there's a reason people save their bids til the last second, and it's not for their own convenience"

Of course it's for their "own convenience".

I'm not about to go without some sleep for 7/10 days to babysit an auction.

Why would I want to continually bid against those who do not understand how eBay auctions work when I can ask my Snipe Service to place ONE bid for the true maximum I am prepared to pay & fully understand that I may be outbid by a previous proxy bid?

Something which seems to have escaped you.

Btw I have been attending auctions for 48 years & conduct charity auctions.

I also understand the difference between live auctions & eBay auctions.

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Also if it is a great deal why call attention to it by bidding it up.

Many people checck by most bids first to see if they have missed a good deal.  Why do you think there was such an outcry when ebay temporarily removed it.

[omgitlightsup]

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@emerald40 wrote:

In what year do you remember this being allowed?

It had to be prior to 1998.

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Correct. I started selling some time in the late 90s, right after graduating high school. By then I'd amassed a collection of old computers so big I was renting a 20x20 storage unit. I actually had a couple VAX machines in there for a while. My mom insisted I do something to subsidize the rent bill. I tried working and found it "not to my liking," like most teenagers... so I turned to eBay, which at the time was a fantastic place to trade that kind of stuff, as most of the internet's users were only able to get online through their university affiliation, and the "world-wide-web" was a relatively new invention. Prior to that, we swapped gear using usenet and BBS's (remember those? good times...)

It wasn't til around 2000 that policy changes started to "get in the way" of my efforts to just buy and sell stuff with fellow enthusiasts of consumer and industrial electronics. It was clear back then that the newly-crowned "Queen Meg" was envious of the success of import-based business, like Oriental Trading and Amazon, which had previously been much more book-centric and less focused on selling "cheap imported junk," and that eBay's policies were steering toward favoring high-volume, low-overhead merchants.

[hawgryders]

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@emerald40 wrote:

If you think ebay's search is awful, then H*ll does exist and it is called E__y search.

I was looking for a diamond band the other day, and there is no way to remove certain words like Moissanite, which accounted for half the listings.

And many are made to order with a price like $500+ but they will show you the top of the line item, making you think that is the price.

Or that every time you do another search, it goes back to the default.

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Etsy has: 

92,172 listings for "diamond band" 

84,700 for "diamond band -Moissanite"

7,474 for "diamond band Moissanite"

Looks like it still works to me ...