On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:11 PM, cat <[email protected]> wrote: > I sell a lot on eBay and rarely use set prices. For one set prices cost > more and that means I have to charge more on low priced items. Second it > is unfair to both the customer and me. I get cheated of what I might > have made over the price I would have set and the customer gets cheated > of what might have been a bargain (I usually start my auctions at > $0.99). By allowing the market to decide the value of what I have to > sell it offers the possibility of 2 "good" outcomes. Set prices do not. > Also eBay has found fixed price items do not sell as well as auctions. > Personally I avoid the sellers with all fixed price items as they are > often selling junk at higher than store prices. > Fixed prices do not build buyer loyalty, good service, politeness, and > reasonable prices (and the price is always reasonable when they buyer > sets it) do. > Besides eBay was intended as an auction, not a retail site. It only > added the fixed price system after the huge retailers who sell there > demanded it. > Auctions are fair to everyone but fixed price only favours the > retailer. > > cat
All of which simply means that a fixed-price sales model doesn't work on eBay, though I have happily bought several things at excellent fixed prices from eBay stores. I suppose the nature of the items being sold makes a difference. For the record, and since I've had a couple of concerned e-mails regarding this thread, the whole point is to make clear why someone would choose an auction-type sales model vs. a fixed-price sales model for something relatively inexpensive and for which there is an infinite supply of identical items. One well-meaning person misread Chris Gutzmer's comment as asking for pirate copies of the models' files, and I hope I set this person's mind at ease on the matter. No one is attacking the seller for his choice; some of us are simply trying to understand it better. :-) -- Mike Hungerford http://www.chthulhu.com/ If it can't be taken apart, you don't own it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en.
