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keziak · ‎03-29-2019

I did the recent promotion by listing a lot of auctions. I rotated many book lots out of my store. I get tired of seeing the boxes full of these books cluttering up my storage area. Well, most of those and others I just added didn't sell as usual. I'll be doing a big purge instead. As it turned out I got 2 sales of book lots I never moved out of the store. If only such sales were more consistent. I need to stop listing and storing moderate-interest books just because it's "free" with my store. Space has a cost, too, both in clutter and taking up space which better books could use.

creekcoyote · ‎03-29-2019

@keziak wrote:
I did the recent promotion by listing a lot of auctions. I rotated many book lots out of my store. I get tired of seeing the boxes full of these books cluttering up my storage area. Well, most of those and others I just added didn't sell as usual. I'll be doing a big purge instead. As it turned out I got 2 sales of book lots I never moved out of the store. If only such sales were more consistent. I need to stop listing and storing moderate-interest books just because it's "free" with my store. Space has a cost, too, both in clutter and taking up space which better books could use.

I am doing auctions right now and having very good luck. So who knows?

COYOTES RULE!!!

keziak · ‎03-29-2019

I'm sure it all depends on what you are listing at auction.

membersinceaug2001 · ‎03-29-2019

I can never sell anything with auctions. Try them once in a while, then re-list same items fixed price at double the auction price. Nearly everything sells eventually. Even putting bo on, more sell at full price.

castlemagicmemories · ‎03-29-2019

@keziak wrote:
I'm sure it all depends on what you are listing at auction.

Most likely.

sapphireseal · ‎03-30-2019

I basically treat auctions as seven day Buy It Nows. So if I get a bunch of free auction listings and I previously had an item listed as a $10 BIN, I list it at auction with a minimum bid of $10.

Back in the late 90s I could start an auction at a penny and (most of the time) the bidders would push the item up to it's actual market value, whether that was $10 or $100. That just doesn't work these days (at least for my category.) There are not enough views / bidders. The views on auctions, in particular, are abyssmal. And I think a lot of buyers just don't want to deal with the wait.

fern*wood · ‎03-30-2019

I wish ebay would drop the category restrictions on store auctions so that more of them could be used without more expense for listing fees.

tdebuys · ‎03-30-2019

All we use are auctions... Reason being we sell collectibles and let buyers set the market price. True, we have a lot of items that don't get anyone even looking at them, but we're selling 5% of offerings so that is acceptable in our case. The greatest value to auctions is simply you get at least an acceptable base price if someone bids at all, and then competition can and sometimes does take over from there. I recently listed an arrowhead for $5 thinking that is about what it was worth and it took off to the tune of almost $300. So, auctions can generate big winners in collector categories and particularly when the item has much more value than the seller's knowledge permits. I don't and can't research every item to a final value for often value is an unknown.... and it sure is fun to go onto eBay to see where the bidding goes. I never use the .99 opening bid anymore on anything but Coins...in coins it works because you get several bidders and competition sets a fair value in 99.999% of the time in the coin market. Sometimes the results aren't very good, but I'd say they are usually better than I expected. I often make a note on a pkg what I think a given coin should bring and very seldom am I very far under the number, but sometimes my results are amazing. Recently had a silver dollar I thought market results indicated that should sell for around $40 and it brought almost twice that amount. SO, yes I LOVE AUCTIONS Crazy as they are.

fultonfalcon · ‎03-31-2019

Oh I agree with the abysmal number of lookers... they have evaporated. I get excited if I have more than 2 people watching something....lol. If 20 or more watch an item I'm in a frenzy. When I get multiple bidders , well, it's just an awe inspiring moment. LOL. AND, when someone actually pays and KEEPS an item it's a WONDERFUL DAY...though I've usually turned blue by then from holding my breath for 90 day hoping they haven't hit the dreaded " RETURN BUTTON" demanding they keep the item and get a full refund including shipping. And that's the way eBay has gone. Not like the good old days when you could wait a week on a check and then hold it a week before shipping so it could have time to clear the bank....oh how I miss those days. We were so naive to what "good" really was.

ohnojoey · ‎03-31-2019

On my selling account, I list the majority on 7 day auctions. I love that format. Many times, there really isn't a set value on what I sell, so the bidders determine that.

I sell highly collectible items. Things that sell would sell anyway on fixed price or auction format. Quite often an auction, in my experience, can surpass the fixed price of others listings that sit for months. Buyers can get competitive! (edited)

Many things are not suited for auctions, as you are seeing. While a rarer highly sought after book might do very well on an auction, another book may not.

It looks like you do very well with fixed price/best offer sales.

gamersbaystore · ‎03-31-2019

Agreed! I'm getting pickier about what I put up for sale as well. I see no point in listing something I know has very little potential to sell at all. With all the games I sell, there's many more I wont and actually just throw them in the trash, as I know no one will buy them anyway.

joesoucie22012 · ‎03-31-2019

I had four auctions end today. All 4 sold. But there was no/none/very little bidding today, Sunday. Shoot/dang/darn... I listed a $700.00 book with a river rank of about 2 million for $55.00 starting bid at 3 day auction today. No action. I have thousands of books to list in the 10-20 dollar range and some much higher. Huge stacks of them. But they will not sell on this site. Been trying everything to sell here but you can't beat AI.