I think what this fun argument has shown is something that I said months ago: No one seller, auction house, consignor is right for every situation or every person. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Hershenson To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 10:33 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] BRUCE QUESTION----extended bidding
This points up three very important points: 1) Many of the people who say they hate extended bidding did little or no buying from me when I was on eBay without it. 2) Many of the people who say they like extended bidding did a lot of buying from me when I was on eBay without it, and many of them buy even more now. So should I tailor my business according to those who do buy from me or those that don't? That seems to be a no brainer to me, but what do I know and 3) Evan has looked at the extended bidding and found ways to use it to his advantage, as have many of my bidders. It makes sense to adapt to changing technology rather than gripe about it. In my opinion, fixed-time ended bidding is a dinosaur that is fading away. Cling to your wonderful memories of it, if you must, but you will have to adapt at some point, or you won't be buying very much. Bruce On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Evan Zweifel <[email protected]> wrote: As someone with a limited budget for poster purchases, I have 3 beefs with auctions. 1) The lots frequently close too quickly, or too close together. 2) The lots that I want most of all close after the lots I want not as much. 3) Its almost always the case, I want more items that I can possibly afford. So, I have found that it is possible to use the time extensions to separate the closing times, AND in some case actually get them to close in priority order. Which is pretty cool. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Hershenson" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 3, 2009 3:55:38 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: [MOPO] BRUCE QUESTION----extended bidding Most nights, all the auctions end on schedule (in other words, the last auction ends on time, and then they are all over), but around 10% of the auctions go past the originally scheduled end time. Most of those have one five minute extension, a few have two or three, and maybe one out of 50 extended auctions are extended for 20 to 30 minutes. Almost always, this is caused by a joker acting like it is eBay! They bid at the very end, extending it 5 minutes. They then wait 4 minutes 59 seconds and bid again, extending it another 5 minutes, and so on. I think they think they will "wear the other bidder down", but the funny part is they are usually bidding against a "left bid" and the other bidder isn't even there. A week ago, this really backfired. The 2nd bidder kept waiting 4 minutes and 59 seconds to bid again, and they did this for 30 minutes, finally outbidding the left bid. By then, ALL the other auctions had closed, leaving this the only open auction, and some other bidder (who must have been curious why the new auctions weren't on yet) went in and outbid the guy! So he would have won it if he had simply placed his bids earlier. But the vast majority of auctions end when they are supposed to. Bruce On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Michael B < [email protected] > wrote: what was the longest extended bidding on your site? i think i once had bid 6 times in the extended session, and ultimately won at about 238.00 WHILE I WAS IN THE BIDDING WAR-----IT SEEMED LIKE FOREVER!!!!! michael Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
