> 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/
I found the last couple of messages very informing! > > 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 Hi Cat, You've shown me a side of eBay that I wasn't aware of. I have sold old items on eBay, but not items that I create and market. I understand what you're saying, although it would be nice if sellers would offer something extra to those buyers who pay more for the same item. True, I can set my maximum bid at .99. But why should I bother if I want 3 or 4 models and end up only winning on 1 of them? In the end I will spend a small fortune on postage, or over pay for the models to get them all shipped at once. eBay is set up for bidding, but what you and other designers are selling are not one of a kind or used items. Why not sell on one of the gaming eStores? I tried this method with some of my paper models. This was several years ago and at the time I was one of only a small handful of designers selling paper models, so the eStore didn't highlight our paper models with the same energy that they highlighted games. Since that time more paper model designers are selling on these gaming eStores, so sales may be better today than it was when I tried it. I don't know what the gaming eStores charge. Back then it was a lot cheaping than what eBay charged. Just a thought. I know would buy the models through a gaming eStore than bidding on eBay. B.J. -- 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.
