Do you feel that knowing the minimum price is too much for bidders to resist matching? How would that, however, be a negative influence on the final bid? If it isn't matched, it goes back up in a month.
Jack --- Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 23, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Jack Davis wrote: > > > NO! I entered a minimum bid rather than a "reserve" which, as I > > understand it, puts some bidders off. > > Followed the advice of an experienced and sage lister. > > Was just messin' with Cotty. > > I've never found that having a reserve puts anyone off. On anything > > of more than nominal value I always have a reserve. I decide what > the least I can afford to take for something is and set that as my > reserve. Keeps me from having to sell something way too cheap. > > If the reserve isn't met, I wait a month or two and relist the item. > > Usually it will make reserve on the second try. On an occasional > item I have had to list it three times before it sold, but it always > > did sell. > > I recently sold a mint Canon EOS-1v. It took three tries, but I > ended up getting $ 400 more than what it would have gone for the > first time with no reserve. > > Bob > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
