posted on April 9, 2001 11:01:35 AM
I, mean, I know not on a sundayt morning, but what time will give me the most people seeing it when it comes to the top of the listings because it is ready to end?
posted on April 24, 2001 04:38:36 PM
Nobody has replied to this excellent question, I wonder why? From my experience, I seem to get the most bids during the hours of 11am-1pm and 5:30pm-7:00pm PST. There are programs you can use that in conjunction with counter programs from say Honesty.com will track the hits of your auctions. In this way you can find what the patterns are for people who look at your auctions. Then plan to have your auctions close during the best time when the most people are accessing them.
Does that make sense? For me, I've found Saturdays & Sundays between 5-7pm are the best times to end them. If you browse around power sellers auctions in the category that you sell items in you will notice interesting trends that will probably work well for you too.
posted on April 24, 2001 05:17:23 PM
This is kinda a universal question without a real answer. There are so many variables involved. Time zone, season, auction site stability, just to mention a few.
I have had customers complain because I ended auctions on weekends in the summer, saying they had better things to do than sit in front of a computer on the weekend.
When eBay was having continual outages in the evenings a few months ago, I switched to ending my sales between 9 and 10am Pacific. That worked great as it caught lunch hours in the eastern and central time zones and my sales improved.
Now I list 7 days a week and vary from 9 to 9 Pacific and my sales just keep improving.
Guess it just boils down to what works best for you.
posted on April 24, 2001 07:50:11 PM
Do it on sunday night because everybody can see it all weekend long. Friday I bet is one of the worse days because nobody gets home on time and a lot of people go out with co-workers that night.
"We're flooding people with
information. We need to feed it
through a processor. A human must turn information into
intelligence or knowledge. We've tended
to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question." - Grace Hopper
posted on April 24, 2001 09:54:05 PM
I end a lot of my auctions now from Monday to Thursday, around 3pm west coast time. They get lots of bids early on, often close better than I expected, and often get nicely sniped. Maybe a lot of people bidding from work or college it seems. Also if you list around that time, your item is catalogued by eBay evening time.
posted on April 24, 2001 10:00:54 PM
There is no single perfect time for everyone and a lot will depend on what you sell & who your target audience is.
For some of the things I sell, the weekend is the best time, especially in the evening. But for another group of item, it's the absolute worst because the audience isn't likely to be on the computer until during the week.
Learn your target audience, then decide which is the day/time most likely for them to be on ebay.
posted on April 24, 2001 11:59:51 PM
I usually shoot for Sunday night 10-12 p.m. Eastern, but I don't have any science backing me up with that, just gut.
I remember an introductory journalism class and talking about TV ratings and which times were biggest. Since Internet time for many people comes at the expense of TV time, it may be a good guideline. Except I skew it a bit later, to account for the "put the kids to bed" factor.
There's also people accessing the Net from work, but I don't plan the end times to hit that. Maybe I could experiment with some lunch-hour auction ends.
