posted on May 22, 2001 05:02:05 AM
Is it just me or are people using the....
"I have placed a modest reserve to protect my investment"
....clause more than ever??? I have run into that statement about 10 times in the last 2 days!
Now I know, you know and pretty much everybody else knows that lots of people do this ebay thing as a business, but do people really need to use that wording? I figure that the reserve pretty much says that all by itself. To me, a reserve tells me that the seller isn't going to give the item away.
By putting the "Protect my investment" part says 'Look, I bought this to resell and no way in heck I'm taking less than 4 times what I paid for it!'
As you can see I'm not a big fan of reserves although I do use them once in a while. I like starting an item out at a fair price and letting it go.
But that's just me and I'm probably wrong...........
posted on May 22, 2001 06:25:41 AM
This phrase (and reserves) seems to become more popular when eBay has been having "functionality" difficulties. Maybe last week's problems have prompted this.
