Paola Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 I still think ebay is great. I sold a little tikes climber for £60 more than we bought it for 3 years ago. Thats the great thing about ebay, people get carried away with bidding. When I lived in Godstone in Surrey I sold a used three wheeler to somebody in Swindon and it was collection only as well Thankfully I have never had any trouble selling or buying on ebay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Thats the great thing about ebay, people get carried away with bidding. indeed - and it always makes me feel guilty! I once sold a bog-standard old portable typewriter (you usually can't give them away!) for £26 plus a fortune in Postage - it being so heavy - simply because two newbie bidders got carried away out-bidding each other... and I sold one of those mini- JML sewing-machines (£9.99 new) for £16 - again, for the same reason... Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 I never list on 5p listing day. Its a matter of supply and demand. Loads more for sale so more compeition. I think it depends what you are selling - and on other factors - the biggest of which (I find) is the end-day... if you list so that the auction ends at the weekend - when more people are at home and in front of their computers - and at a time that is more convenient (ie - ending early evening rather than early morning!) - then I have found I get more bidders and so a higher price. There are more people listing to coincide with these times - so "supply and demand" kicks in - but it more than compensates for the xtra supply for the product I normally sell - but as I said, it depends what you're selling and how many other peole are selling the same thing.. (people might be surprised to hear that I sell mostly cat and dog prints - and the occasional chicken print) Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken on a mission Posted May 15, 2006 Author Share Posted May 15, 2006 Surprised no, shocked? Oh yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 if you list so that the auction ends at the weekend - when more people are at home and in front of their computers - and at a time that is more convenient (ie - ending early evening rather than early morning!) - then I have found I get more bidders and so a higher price. Phil That is exactly what I do Phil - list on a thursday for a 10 day auction,so it ends on sunday about 1pm. You catch all the weekenders that way,& it makes a huge difference to the amount things sell for. This is only bettered by listing so that the auction ends on a Bank Holiday Monday.People SEE it on Sunday & are usually around on the Monday to bid If its a rainy weekend all the better I am listing about 50 items of very summery clothing this Friday to end on the next bank Holiday Monday. Does anyone else use AuctionSniper? This is a service which automatically places a bid for you in the last few seconds of the auction - meaning it is much less likely you will be out bid. It is fab - I NEVER EVER place a bid these days - I SNIPE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 so do I - and I always feel a bit guilty about it! but I don't get the time to sit and wait for all auctions to end - especially if it's in the early hours of the morning... Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 I don't feel guilty - I love it I have just sniped a nice Gap handbag as I sit here. Of course I have had a few nasty emails from people I have outbid at the last second - but you snooze,you loose,right ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melcotton Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 thats right cinnamon! Gotta be in it to win it!! Mel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken on a mission Posted May 15, 2006 Author Share Posted May 15, 2006 I don't bother with a sniper. I am so adicted that I'm sat at the computer at the end of the auction I'm interested in anway so I do a manual snipe in the last 10 secs. Although this isn't as close to the end as the snipe tools get you I know that if I lose out it is only because I wasn't prepared to bid any higher so I'm not bothered Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallina Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Either (1) using a sniper or (2) having a short password could be dangerous! A couple of months ago I found to my surprise that I was selling 160 mobile phones on eBay. They were all linked to my identity, with my feedback. Luckily I noticed and put a stop to it. I asked our IT officer at work how this could have happened, and it came down to two possibilities. Either the fraudster had cracked my password (which was only seven random letters, not a word), or he had hacked into the sniper I use and got my password that way. I have stopped sniping and have a viciously awful password now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken on a mission Posted May 15, 2006 Author Share Posted May 15, 2006 Don't forget their are keystroke virus's too. That's why online banks have drop down menus for putting in certain letters of your password. I emailed Paypal about when they might be doing the same because any hacker effectively has access to the contents of hubbys bank account should my Paypal account be compromised but Paypal have no plans to introduce this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 in the meantime the safest thing we can all try and do with passwords is to make a combination of letters and numbers - most employers ask you to do this on their machines anyway An easy way of doing it is to take a word for example ELEPHANT a password can be turned into EL3PH4NT Makes it slightly more tricky to guess - and never use name1 etc as that's far too easy - kinda like having your pin as 1234!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 wouldn't be hinting for us to "up" the bids would ya dan? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunee1 Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 I have much fun on the old ebay but the latest goody has to be a head light for the car....we were out the other day only to return to a smashed head light...whilst my other half was ranting and fuming i tapped in golf head light passenger side on ebay and up pops one with and hour to go half an hour down the road!!!....got it for £40....(£130 brand new) Bob's ya uncle i was in the good books that day Ps Dan you have some sweet bikes there on your avatar ! Hannah and the G-pigs in the Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Dan - was it you,Debs or the kids who got fed up with the Sea Monkeys then??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Sea Monkeys are so boring! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 (although I am back into model trains at the minute so the old school BMXs are taking a back seat)... I would really get back into the model trains, bought a Virgin Voyager last summer but have nowhere in the house set up with the tracks so haven't been able to have it running Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellcat Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 ... and you boys complain if we go off topic about important stuff like chocolate, shopping and childbirth! Good grief! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken on a mission Posted June 3, 2006 Author Share Posted June 3, 2006 I can't believe somebody would go off topic. I have never seen that happen on here before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Poor you Dan! I agree, buyers are half wits! I've sold a couple of things only for the buyers to then complain, even though the listing and pictures clearly point out all detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Oh!!! Please don't mention Ebay - whoever mentioned those 'Reborns' has a lot to answer for. I've recently won three dolls (not reborns - they're scary ) and a pair of shoes I will not go to Ebay I will not go to Ebay.................. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
