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Is this a bad time to start an Auction?

mexpo75mexpo75 Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭✭
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Just wanted to know if starting an ebay auction which ends right before or right after Xmas is a bad idea.
PackManInNC

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  • gameusedhoopgameusedhoop Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭✭
    Think ending just after is fine. Some people have $$ for gifts that they are looking to spend. Just be sure to put a minimum bid that you're willing to accept on your item and you can't get hurt. I have a bunch of BIN jerseys up now and there is no rhyme or reason to when people are buying them. 3am, 3pm, Cali., Hawaii, Conn, I've seen it all at this point. Some are up for just hours, some 10 days before selling, some go almost up to their 30 day limit, others don't sell. The exposure can't hurt, just CYA with a minimum.
  • MBerry10MBerry10 Posts: 63
    yes
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    I wouldnt start one now. I ran a 99 cent auction for a vintage Non-Sports PSA 8 (nice following for a non sports set). It ended last night. Final selling price?? $2.50. It cost more to get it graded than the card brought. So, if you HAVE to start an auction, start it at the least you are willing to take....
  • MBerry10MBerry10 Posts: 63


    << <i>It ended last night. Final selling price?? $2.50. It cost more to get it graded than the card brought. So, if you HAVE to start an auction, start it at the least you are willing to take.... >>



    You just figured this out last night?
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    Well...I had seen a competitor (BBCE) selling the same cards in the same grades run 99 cents auctions and he had gotten acceptable prices. Nothing great mind you, but nothing as abysmal as my card sold for..... so, I thought the same bidders would see my card. Apparently, they did not. I would just as soon keep the card than sell it for a couple of bucks....
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    I'm starting about 10 auctions next week to end on 12-28. That should be fun.
    Ron Burgundy

    Buying Vintage, all sports.
    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    Are you starting them all at 99 cents Ron?
  • thedutymonthedutymon Posts: 4,323 ✭
    Morning,
    I am running 50-60 Auctions ending New Years Eve between 8:00 PM and 10:00. Did it last year and caught lots of drunks with time on their hands and computors within easy reach!! And more money than sense!!!

    Yeehahimage

    Neilimage
    Actually Collect Non Sport, but am just so full of myself I post all over the place !!!!!!!
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    Most of them, yes.
    Ron Burgundy

    Buying Vintage, all sports.
    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Bobby

    What non sport set are you talking about?


    Good for you.
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    hmmm. let's examine this for a moment.

    choice A) Being stuck at the airport while getting jostled about by strangers in a hurry who possess electronic gadgets and guns. Then, there's the TSA.

    choice B) Hanging out on the Internet wondering if there's anyone alive out there.

    choice C) Drinking heavily, THEN, and only then should you consider listing goods on eBay.

    then, in short order, you LOL because the people who are on their way to visit you are "A", you visit "B" and discover that your relatives are "A" when you start receiving e-mails from the airport, then you "C" and LOL again because those relatives at the airport might have some extra time on their hands to shill up your auctions and will probably never make it to your place, anyways.

    everyone wins.

    image
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What non sport set are you talking about? >>


    1966 Topps Superman
  • thunderdanthunderdan Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭
    Kruk auctions do very well right around the holidays, especially the Curt Schilling auctions.
    image


  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,342 ✭✭✭✭
    Mexpo, there are no listing fees until January 7th regardless of starting price, so there is nothing to lose if you just want to start your auctions at your minimum acceptable price. If they sell, great, if not, then you'll have no skin in the game.
  • FFStingerFFStinger Posts: 54
    what is shilling?
  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,342 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>what is shilling? >>



    No, what's on second.

    Who is shilling.
  • SportsamericaSportsamerica Posts: 990 ✭✭


    << <i>Morning,
    I am running 50-60 Auctions ending New Years Eve between 8:00 PM and 10:00. Did it last year and caught lots of drunks with time on their hands and computors within easy reach!! And more money than sense!!!

    Yeehahimage

    Neilimage >>



    Have you been drinking tonight too Neil? "computors?" image
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    1952 Bowman PSA 7+ (63.10%)
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    1985 Fleer PSA 10 (54.85%)
  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭
    It depends what you're selling. If it's modern baseball, it's a very bad time unless that player just signed a big contract or got traded. If it's vintage baseball, it's a great time for the type of cards that people purchase on impulse (Mantle, Koufax, etc.). If it's basketball or football, it's a good time.

    Nick
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    Reap the whirlwind.

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