As to reserve prices,I would say that fixing your opening bid at your
reserve price is probably the best thing to do. I personally find it
very frustrating trying to bid when you don't know the reserve. There
seems little point having 5 bids on an item to have it still display
that the reserve is not met so won't sell anyway. Unless of course I
am missing the point here.
My husband sells a bit on ebay and a lot of people including him will
combine lower cost items for packaging purposes if someone is buying
more than one item from the same seller. It might be worth putting a
note to this effect on your listing.
I hope this helps.
Regards
Claire, Kent, UK
On 25 Sep 2005, at 12:56:pm, Brenda Paternoster wrote:
Dear Arachnes
I have a friend who has asked me to help her sell her collection of
baby gowns/Christening dresses, assorted pieces of lace and
embroidery (nothing very spectacular), embroidered/beaded bags and
a couple of fans etc. My friend is now almost blind, so unable to
appreciate her collection and she could do with some extra cash so
I've agreed to do the selling for her. The local antiques dealer
will probably be interested in two or three baby dresses, but three
dozen!! I don't want to flood the local market, so I'm thinking
about Ebay.
I've never bought or sold anything with Ebay before, but I know
that many of you have, so any any advice would be gratefully received.
I realise that I'll need to open a PayPal account, (or restrict it
to GBP cheques and clear the cheques before parting with the goods).
I've resisted PayPal in the past for my own book sales because of
the high charges - it works out at 55p on a single book or 3-07 GBP
on a trade order for ten books.
The questions I still have are:
1, The minimum reserve price with Ebay is 50 GBP. If I'm
realistically hoping for about 25 GBP for an item then a reserve
price is not an option. Should I therefore set the opening bid at
what I consider the reserve price to be, say 20 GBP? If I set it
very low and someone bids just a penny more am I obliged to sell?
2, There are a lot of low value items - would it be better to put
these into 'lots' ie five different lace mats, or try to sell each
item individually? Postage on five is likely to be the same as
postage on one, it's the packaging that costs!
3, Most of the items would benefit from "laundering to freshen
them up"! A mammoth task, so would it harm the dresses if I iron
them unlaundered in order to get a decent photo?
Any advice welcomed
Brenda
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/
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