IMPORTANT NOTICE: IN JUST A COUPLE OF MONTHS, I WILL BE ENDING MY DAYS AS AN
EBAY SELLER! I WILL BE SWITCHING OVER TO RUNNING AUCTIONS ON MY OWN SITE!
WHAT WILL CHANGE ABOUT THE AUCTIONS?
I ASSUME THOSE READING THIS HAVE ALREADY READ MY COMMENTS LAST WEEK IN
CLUB MESSAGE #386 (if not, go to the e-mail club archive section of my
website and read it right now!). I ALSO POSTED THOSE COMMENTS TO MOVIE
POSTER FORUM A WEEK AGO)!
Here is some more on this big change I will be making over the next two
months:
I want to get out from under the restrictive eBay set-up, where everything
has to be done exactly according to their rules, and ALL sellers live under
the constant fear that they will break one of eBay's endless and
ever-changing rules and enter the Kafka-esque eBay world where you are
guilty until proven innocent, and where they try to micro-manage EVERY
aspect of the seller's business, from how much you can charge for shipping,
to what kinds of posters you can sell, and I am weary of the endless
squabbling that I, and my customers do with eBay on a regular basis!
I want to expand the ability to bid during auctions, because I have never
liked eBay's "fixed time ending" format, and neither do many bidders, for
they are often left with the feeling that items are "snatched away from
them" in the final seconds, and that they would like the chance to bid
again. My new site will offer the bidder extended time billing, WHICH IS
USED BY EVERY OTHER ONLINE AND LIVE AUCTION COMPANY OTHER THAN EBAY! This
means that if you want a certain poster you don?t have to worry about
sniping or being outbid with one second left. Under the new system once the
lot listed has reached the closing time, it will stay open for bidding until
a certain time has passed without a bid, BUT ONLY IF A BID WAS PLACED IN THE
FINAL TEN MINUTES FOR THAT PARTICULAR ITEM. This allows two or more bidders
to stay with the auction until one collector decides to stop bidding, not
when a clock dictates, WHICH IS CURRENTLY HOW IT IS WITH EVERY OTHER ONLINE
AND LIVE AUCTION COMPANY OTHER THAN EBAY!
Other than this one very significant change, little will be different with
our new auctions! Most importantly, just as we have always have in the past,
eMoviePoster,com will not be charging a buyers premium when the auction
closes, EVEN THOUGH VIRTUALLY EVERY OTHER ONLINE AND LIVE AUCTION DOES! What
you bid is the exact amount (plus shipping of course) that you will pay.
So, we will be keeping what we believe is good about eBay (no buyer's
premiums), but abandoning what we feel is bad ("fixed time ending"
auctions). SINCE WE WILL BE DOING THE AUCTIONS OURSELVES, WE WILL, FOR THE
VERY FIRST TIME AFTER 20 YEARS OF AUCTIONS, BE ABLE TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT
FEATURES WE WANT AND DON'T WANT! Our entire goal will be to continue to
provide 100% honest auctions, that treat both consignors and sellers the way
we ourselves would like to be treated when WE are the consignor or buyer to
an auction!
Next week I will have lots more details about how the new auctions will work
(I will be discussing the safeguards that will make sure the auctions remain
100% honest and free of shill bidding of any kind), and I will also be
giving more information about how and when the first of these auctions will
be; I have lots of plans to make the first of these REALLY excellent, to
better show my appreciation to those buyers who participate in my first
auctions on my site. But time is short now, and so (as they used to say in
the old time serials), return next week to learn more (in other words, to be
continued...!).
IMPORTANT: If YOU have an opinion on how these new auctions should be run,
or on how you feel about my leaving eBay, I want to hear from you NOW!
Please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any comments you may have (or
post them here), and I will be posting the ones I receive in the next e-mail
club (and I will leave people's names off, so they can feel free to give
their honest opinions! I welcome any sort of constructive comments. NOW is
the time to tell me any suggestions you have, because we are now setting up
the new auction site, and this is the best time to make any changes or
improvements!
Bruce
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