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Sean,
Seems to me you are still over-complicating (and missing) the
point:
If you're only going to get 1 bid on Ebay, and you're only going to get 1
bid on MPB -- and it is cheaper to set the minimum price you really want on
the item at MPB... instead of settling for a lower minimum than you really want
on eBay to save on fees... then you make more money selling that item on
MPB. Does it really matter if 20 people look at your item and only 1 bids the
minimum or 8 people look at your item and 1 bids the minimum? You're still only
getting the minimum either way, but it costs you less to do it on MPB. And you
don't have to settle for a lower minimum than you think is reason just to save
on fees... and the false hope that you'll get more attention from all the Lookie
Lous.
Naturally, the most desirable items still get some competitive bidding --
this will be true on Ebay or MPB.
If the audience on MPB hasn't grown fast enough to suit some sellers, it is
because they have not participated in the site and helped build it up more. If
more sellers were listing more on MPB, the numbers you're talking about would
shift even more drastically and very quickly. The fact that many sellers are
still refusing to try MPB is due to their lack of vision, not a lack of
potential bidders on MPB. The site is not unknown anymore, it's been almost a
year. Do a search on the phrase "movie poster auctions" on Yahoo or MSN or Ask
Jeeves or Alta Vista and see where MPB shows up on the real (non-paid,
non-sponsored) results. Google is a different story, but that's because Google
has flipped out with delusions of zillion dollar grandeur, like eBay, and is now
useless as a real search engine.
I'm not sure what your point is about someone setting an over-priced
minimum starting bid? I guess that never happens on eBay?
-- JR
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Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005
15:30
Subject: Re: [MOPO] MOPO/ two subjects by
movpost starting with fake daybills
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>You're also right about most items on eBay now selling with just one
bidder these days -- this is why I think it is funny when people complain
about >www.MoviePosterBid.com
and say "well, you don't have a large enough bidding audience to generate
competitive bidding on my items." As if competitive bidding >was still
something that happens with most items on eBay. It just doesn't happen that
much any more. MPB makes it cheaper to set a high minimum or reserve or
>Buy It Now to make sure that you get an acceptable price from that one
bidder.
Competitive bidding is certainly something that happens with desirable
pieces. But if you mean to say, that there isn’t any real bidding on most
uninteresting and/or unimportant posters than you are correct.
And while MoPoBid might be actual dollars and cents cheaper than eBay to
list crazy reserves and asking prices (I still remember the insane $6500
starting price on the Creature From the Black Lagoon lobby set during the
Halloween “sale”), there is strong evidence to suggest that MoPoBid is
actually OVERPRICED when compared to eBay and the amount of exposure it brings
your product.
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