I don't doubt that any of that is untrue; in fact it makes lots of sense.
I've missed out on many items because they've closed on weekdays that I'm at work. Pretty hard to "lurk" to bid at the last minute that way. Or indeed, hard to bid, and then check in during the last few minutes to see if you've been outbid. If there's an item that I really want that closes on a weekend or evening, I'll make sure I'm on line, to "monitor" the situation. In terms of photos accompanying an auction, I'm usually loathe to bid on anything if I can't see it! Pretty hard to know what "good" or "very good" condition means to someone if you don't have an image to reference it to. And, I'll rarely bid on an item being sold by someone with "sunglasses", or only a few auctions under his belt, or anyone with more than a few negative feedbacks. If someone has a few hundred or thousand sales, and only a few negatives, that's not a problem, but I always check the feedbacks before I bid. Bad enough I'm sending my hard-earned cash to a stranger... regards, frank Robert Harris wrote: > There are frequent comments here on e-bay pricing anomalies. This week's > economist has an interesting article reporting on research by a couple > of economists on factors affecting price variations. A few of the findings: > > "...an item sold at a weekend commanded a price around 2% higher than > the same item sold on a weekday." > > "A much larger mark-up was associated with items advertised with > pictures. In 1999 a picture was worth a 5.7% premium; by this year, that > had risen to 11.3%." > > "...high-rated sellers sold coins for 6.8% more than low-rated ones" > -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
