Private auction on ebay, what's so bad about it?

YaHa

Ok touchy subject for some and I never seen to much wrong with it because of these reasons. Ok there are shills and there are shills. But on Teletrade, Heritage, local auctions, etc there are reserves no one knows about. Now we have new rules on ebay to protect sellers from sending spam to buyers that didn't win. So why is there so much fuss about Private auctions?

I just want to get a feel because I am thinking of using one for my Baltimore Ravens PSL's this year. Years ago I sold my 4 seats to a football player that asked me to change my auction to a Private from a open bid so that he wouldn't be spammed with better seats or offers through ebay's COntact Seller. He continued to buy them for a few years later and now is a Falcon. Share me your views.

notwilight

Yep. If not for the stigma, I would change all my auctions to private and I wish ebay would just make all auctions private. As you point out, they are at every other auction house. Ebay sellers now eagerly contact your buyers offering them every related coin. Anthing over $5k estimated value I make it private with an explanation that the buyer of such an expensive coin has the right to reveal who the new owner is. Usually in my case it is likely a registry set coin so the identity will evenatully be revealed anyway. --Jerry

storm888

Tickets seems a good category to go "private."

I have bid on MANY private-listings.

I have asked sellers to revise their listings to "private,"
before I bid.

ALL of my BINs are private.

If I was doing coin/currency auctions, I would prolly go public, BUT would
revise to "private" on request.

I don't want people knowing what I buy, if I might want to resell it.

As for shills, I am not going to set a snipe for more than I want to pay.
A shill may run it up some, but I suspect the problem is overstated.
And, I usually don't buy stuff from folks I don't know/trust.

YaHa

BTW is ebay still charging for the Private Auction catagory? I remember I paid a small fee a few years back.

storm888

There is no charge for "private."