Any thoughts on the best day and time to end your eBay auction
1968forEver
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I can't help but notice they're times when I can't get any bids, even when the opening bid is less than a $1 and shipping just 89 cents. If the card does sell it's just for the opening bid. I sell mostly raw cards from the 60's and early 70's. An example would be a 1967 Topps Gaylord Perry in EX+ condition (my evaluation) that got one bid and sold for 99 cents with 89 cents shipping. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Sunday night 1030pm East Coast and 730pm West Coast...
Agree, except on Super Bowl Sunday!
I might back up the time a little ... Sunday 9pm East and 6pm West ... avoid holiday weekends (and big championship sports sundays). Also in august and late december a lot of ppl are on travel. that all being said, with widespread sniping aps like JustSnipe.com, it's not as problematic.
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I agree with the comments above on the ideal time to end. Also, I don’t think it is as important as it used to be. As long as it is running long enough for a buyer to see it, many will set their snipe and move to the next hunt. I rarely encounter an auction now which is not sniped.
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Along with Sunday evening, I've heard Friday evenings are a good time as well since people usually get paid on Fridays.
used to be sunday night, but the competition got too stiff. too many sellers w too many cards all w the same idea.
imo, w/ the covid situation (and monday night football games, even though that's over now) tuesday night around 10-12est is the honey hole. you get to snag all the money from all the people that didn't win on sunday night.
Agree with both Sunday and Tuesday ending after 9:00 PM EST. When I was selling my strategy was to end 15 minutes before or after PWCC on an item I was selling. BTW, never, I mean never did I realize their final sale price.
Back in the day, people needed to be at home on their PC. So back then, you needed to determine when the most people were at home and searching Ebay. With smartphones, I'm not sure it even matters anymore. I bid on cards ending at any given time. There is no set time or day that I "get on Ebay" and bid on cards. We have our saved searches. We have phones notify us when stuff ends on our watch lists. I just don't think it matters as much anymore. Even on a Super Bowl Sunday, people have their smart phones in their hand while the game is going on.
Shane
i hit the atm earlier and got my wallet out in prep for tonight. have always had great success purchasing items on super bowl sunday for well below the avg price.
NGS made reference to it above, but make sure your listing lasts long enough. Not sure how long you usually do. The more time it’s live, the more people have time to search and come across it. 7 or 10 days for sure...usually no reason to do less.
I've noticed that Friday seems to be the most lively day for my auctions to get bids. Like someone else already said, they just got paid. So I typically end my auctions during the weekend, usually in the middle of the afternoon.
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4SC had a 1978 set break with every single card ending at 8PM Eastern on Sunday. I expected bargains like you say, but bidding seemed to be very competitive 🤷♂️
Interesting theory.
Shane