Paul,
I don't agree with you, but in any case this BIN option is still active.
The seller did it right. He/she used a reserve price. The BIN option is
active until the reserve is hit. If you are serious about having a BIN, you
should use a reserve. I don't think most of the 'spoiling' of BIN options
has anything to do with 'cheapskates'. It is more likely folks who want to
keep track of that item and take advantage of a low opening bid.
In any case, control is in the hands of the seller. If you want to make
the most of your auction, put a starting price at least 50% of your reserve
(or maybe $500 for this lens), put a reserve on the item that you will be
happy with, and put a BIN price out at 125% of what you think the item should
go for. Without that kind of listing, problems will occur that you can do
nothing about.
Regards, Bob S.
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<< I'll probably take a lot of flack for writing this, but I think it's rude
and pointless to spoil the BIN option, as someone quickly did. In my
observation, the spoiler almost NEVER ends up winning.
In January a 600/5.6 on German EBay carried a $3000 BIN price; bidding
ended at $1,575, the reserve unmet. The seller listed it again in February
same terms. I forget the outcome.
But $2,499 is quite a bit cheaper than $3,000 and quite possibly would have
resulted in a BIN purchase by a serious shopper interested in striking a
fair bargain.
The spoiler is usually a cheapskate who hopes for a miracle. But as
economist Paul Samuelson once wrote of the proposed Reaganomics, "It
doesn't pay to believe in miracles before they've happened. It's hard
enough believing in them once they've happened."
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1340012541
Paul Franklin Stregevsky >>
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