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keziak · ‎06-11-2017

I've been pushing auctions lately and having OK success until just lately. I have nothing with bids and when I check on the hits they are catastrophicly low (so no wonder no bids). I guess into the Store they will go.

emerald40 · ‎06-11-2017

The problem with Fixed Price is that often they sit, no urgency to buy.

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IMO, urgency to buy has nothing to do with whether it is an auction or fixed price, but whether it is a desirable product that someone wants.

odditiesandantiquities1 · ‎06-11-2017

@emerald40 wrote:
The problem with Fixed Price is that often they sit, no urgency to buy.
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IMO, urgency to buy has nothing to do with whether it is an auction or fixed price, but whether it is a desirable product that someone wants.

I do agree with that, but lately my Auctions have had very little views if at all.

do.you.read.me · ‎06-11-2017

My items are mainly books and magazines. My sell-thrus are not dire, as if I have to sell to recoup investment. I managed that long ago. Still 250 fp isn't all that much bandwidth for the 25 bucks month to month. I'd use the auctions too, but are 1 or 3 day listings available that route?

emerald40 · ‎06-11-2017

@odditiesandantiquities1 wrote:
@emerald40 wrote:
The problem with Fixed Price is that often they sit, no urgency to buy.
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IMO, urgency to buy has nothing to do with whether it is an auction or fixed price, but whether it is a desirable product that someone wants.
I do agree with that, but lately my Auctions have had very little views if at all.

Are they real .99 auctions or do you just list as the minimum you are willing to accept?

Are they one of a kind or just more of the same?

Is your minimum price the same as what others have as buy it nows?

odditiesandantiquities1 · ‎06-11-2017

@emerald40 wrote:
@odditiesandantiquities1 wrote:
@emerald40 wrote:
The problem with Fixed Price is that often they sit, no urgency to buy.
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IMO, urgency to buy has nothing to do with whether it is an auction or fixed price, but whether it is a desirable product that someone wants.
I do agree with that, but lately my Auctions have had very little views if at all.
Are they real .99 auctions or do you just list as the minimum you are willing to accept?

Are they one of a kind or just more of the same?

Is your minimum price the same as what others have as buy it nows?

Generally I sell at a set mark up. Comparatively, my prices are lower than other sellers. It's all mainly current and vintage jewelry. I've tried .99 auctions, but only to bring in new business. Found those to be throwaways.

Oops, also forgot. I've gone through almost all of my 245 listings and updated the titles with strong keywords being at the beginning. You are welcome to take a look at my store.

sharingtheland · ‎06-11-2017

@hollysfinds wrote:
Thanks @sharingtheland and @tunicaslot

She'll be doing her therapy at home, at least for the first couple of weeks.
Then she's going to go to a PT place two or three times a week ( I think ).

Sorry to go off topic.

Exactly what I did - at home PT and then outpatient until the insurance quit paying. Oh, don't get me started on insurance - what a fight with that company - this was pre-ACA.

She really will be mobile right away, although it will be very painful. They won't let her out of the hospital until she passes tests like how far she can walk and then up and down a flight of stairs. One. Day. After. Surgery. Well of course I made it up the stairs; until an hour or so previously I'd been flying on a morphine drip for 24 hours.

I was sent home within 30 hours of the surgery and that was a day too early; first day at home was rough and your mom will need you then. My husband had to help me in and out of bed - mainly getting out of that knee bendy machine. The good news was I had no appetite !

Knee replacement recovery is tough - hips are a breezy bandaid in comparison - but as everyone says - soooo worth it. Mine was my left knee, at a relatively young age, and the left knee is very, very important in golf - that seriously was my final "oh geez I have to do this" deciding factor.

Sherry

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tunicaslot · ‎06-11-2017

And after it's done - you say - why did I wait so long as you have so much relief!

sharingtheland · ‎06-11-2017

They want to do the other knee and I am waiting, lol. I know exactly the stages of progression to must-do-it and I've still got a few years to go. Pain level's not quite there yet for a surgery I'd "volunteer" to have. As I said, I need the left knee for golf; not so much the right knee.

When we were living in Florida and mine got to the nothing-works-and-I-tried-them-all-stage, I noticed there were many clinics that offered 2-week+ stays after surgery (most of these places were no insurance or Medicare, just all cash). I couldn't figure that out until I had my replacement and realized there are so many men and women, elderly, there with no one at home to help them.

Sherry

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coolections · ‎06-11-2017

@wildfor78s wrote:
DEAD for me on records!! Since the 2nd week of May. Even running promo buy 2 get 1 free and little response. I have new stock to list BUT it is VERY hard to get excited to 1) clean them 2) pictures 3) grade 4) list if little or nothing comes of it.

@wildfor78s

I know I guy who has been bugging me to buy his 78 collection for practically nothing as he knows I sell on Ebay. I would not touch them as they are very hard to sell and very few are worthy of Ebay with no demand. I see them at thrift stores all the time collecting dust. Maybe just donate to Salvation Army ?

wildfor78s · ‎06-11-2017

Where's your friend located? I belong to a couple FB groups with members in every state that might have an interest in the purchase.

keziak · ‎06-11-2017

@emerald40 wrote:
The problem with Fixed Price is that often they sit, no urgency to buy.
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IMO, urgency to buy has nothing to do with whether it is an auction or fixed price, but whether it is a desirable product that someone wants.

Yes, desirability is key. What I'm trying to get at is this: do auctions ever have an element of "this item is going to go off by X-day so I'd better bid"? I think this happens just not all that often. Over the past few months I have moved items back and forth between Fixed Price and Auctions. Some of my Fixed Price lots have ended up selling at auction. Equally, some of my auctions have sold (usually right away) once I move them to Fixed Price. Both happen. So it's hard to say "do this every time" because of the you-never-know factor.