posted on October 17, 2000 07:39:49 PM new
adding something to my auctions that says....Ebay seems to be having functionality problems, so if you want this item, bid NOW, bid High, and WIN! Your Snipers chance may never come!
posted on October 17, 2000 08:29:49 PM new
I was just thinking of the same thing. My concern is that eBay will find that as an excuse to remove the auction. They are soooo touchy. However, I will start placing something like it on a few auctions to see what happens. I may even mention that with Christmas coming it will only get worse. And it will.
I also may start listing at off times with the message to encourage bidders and avoid down times. I've got to start doing something different or I won't be able to list and when I do I will just get the asking price. Let's hope that snipers will at least place a modest bid and then plan on a snipe bid if eBay doesn't go down.
posted on October 17, 2000 11:05:25 PM new
wellllllllll on second thought maybe EBAY is listening to us and all of our complaining about the watch feature and snipers.....and this is their way to stop the sniping!!! huh? (well is has to be something doesn't it?
posted on October 17, 2000 11:07:20 PM new
I personally don't care for auctions that "encourage" bidders to BID NOW, BID HIGH, LOOK OUT FOR SNIPERS, YADA YADA. Do bidders really need help in figuring out how to bid? It just sounds like a sales pitch to me, and it is obvious that it is really just a seller trying to get as much money as possible, so why try to disguise it as "helping" the bidder? It's a turn-off. JMHO.
[ edited by jema on Oct 17, 2000 11:07 PM ]
posted on October 17, 2000 11:48:27 PM new
Last year, I had an auction shut down because I said something to the effect of "seller retains right of cancellation of auction and existing bids which did not meet reserve, if outage occurs within last 4 hours of auction"
Blam! Shut down- but, I see it alot now on listings and these auctions do not get shut off. Ebay had to finally admit to their rights as a seller I think??
Not too different than- if it rains, auction may have to close early....but they didn't like my analogy
