Holiday auction timing advice???

liffeystynx

I was just about to load up a couple of nice eBay auctions with a closing date of Monday week, December 1st when it hit me … whoops, Thanksgiving!

My first instinct was to hold them for a week which does put me bang slap in the Christmas mail rush with its attendant delays & mishaps. Then I thought, why not ask the experts?

So please, help the Irishman out – is the Thanksgiving weekend (plus the Monday after it) bad news for eBay sellers? Or are there enough people who’ve had enough of their families and fled to their PCs to do a little holiday shopping … for themselves!

Any advice & experience you can share would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Jonathan

Virtualizard

If you have anything I'm interested in, I'll be bidding!

I'm not sure how much of an effect it has, but I don't think I'll list anything again until after Jan. 1.

JEB.

mrc32

I put a couple of cards up on ebay before I realized that it was Turkey week. I'll leave them up for now....see what kind of bids I get.

mariner

Good question about ebay listings......

I have found in the last two years that I have had some very good results with nice cards listed over Christmas going off a few days after Christmas. Don't ask me why, that has just been my experience. Maybe after the presents, people have time to just do what they want, like scour ebay for vintage gem cards!

qualitycards

If you auction off a nice item, the bidders will find it. If someone will be travelling, they will be sure to set their snipes up before they leave. Also remember that holidays are a day of leisure so many will be on the computer be it to check in or to do lots of searches...jay

ydsotter

I have found that my card auctions seem to do better around turkey week through xmas...
I'll be off from work during the break and I will be spending extra time ebay surfing.
side note...
For some reason, I have found selling compact discs to be most profitable around this time as well.
I am 32... a child of the 80's...
Some of those more obscure, out of print CD's from the 80's including soundtracks have sold for good cash...
I mention this because it's a great way to make extra card money...
last year I made around $300 selling a small handful of my old cd's... out of print and import cd's... stuff I likely would haven given away.

liffeystynx

Thanks for all the input guys. I decided to go ahead and take my chances.

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1968, 1969 & 1970 Topps Nolan Ryan

Thanks again and ... Happy Thanksgiving!

Jonathan

LloydsBaseballCards

I always felt that the week after the CHRISTmas holiday is a good time to sell on ebay, I would avoid the 25th.

Wabittwax

On another topic, I've had bad luck ending auctions on Mondays. I have found Thursday to be the best day in my opinion. I'm guessing because the average person knows they get paid the next day so it's ok to blow a few extra bucks. Mark Murphy uses Sunday but that has been really horrible for me too. Fridays and Saturdays are really bad too because people are out doing things and not at home. What do you guys think?

Vargha

I think it sounds like most of the week isn't working too well for you.

mariner

I have found Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday nights with the auction ending around 9 to 10 East Coast time gets the best action. I have good success on Sundays also but definitely ixnay on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays.

roastedcat

Take advantage of Ebay's 10 cent listing day all day 11/25 on Fixed price auctions.

Sell it then and save yourself a ton of money.






Jery