dorrie
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posted on July 23, 2002 03:17:38 PM
Does anyone see any advantage to the seller of the new fixed price format that Ebay will soon be starting? If the item was listed the regular auction style as least it may have a chance to go to a higher price through the bidding process.
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ihula
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posted on July 23, 2002 03:36:36 PM
I plan to use it. I have 50 or more copies of the same video - it will be cheaper for me to list them together at a fixed price than to list 50 seperate auctions at different times. I should hopefully have a faster turn around also. I already know what they should sell for, so I price accordingly.
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bidsbids
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posted on July 23, 2002 05:12:51 PM
The new feature is an inprovement to the poor and confusing-to-newbies Dutch Auction feature.
For single items, the new feature seems like a Half listing with the auction format exposure? 
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caffeitalia
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posted on July 23, 2002 06:00:46 PM
The main advantage is a buyer sees your item, and really wants it, they don't have to worry about getting sniped or shill bid against. They can simply bid and buy. The main disadvantage I see is those losers who list their items for a penny at regular auction, usually powersellers, and hope the bidding raises the price and if not, don't sell the item and blame the buyer for not bidding high enough. What this does is attracts buyers away from farely priced items into the trap of the underpriced powerseller and no one wins.
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REAMOND
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posted on July 23, 2002 09:37:18 PM
If you have a lot of items that you want to move quickly, it is the way to go. It obviously isn't for unique items which have a true market driven value.
You can actually have the item sold and shipped by the time an auction ends.
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Libra63
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posted on July 23, 2002 10:28:02 PM
It is an advantage to me. I have items I list that I know what they will bring so that is the price I will set. Right now if you have the BIN price and the starting price the same it is very confusing to the buyer as to what bidding notice to use. Yes, I know it says it but some people don't read and this will be a improvement.
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bidsbids
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posted on July 23, 2002 10:49:01 PM
Other than the Dutch Auctions facet of the new feature how is it different from a Half item other than a smaller comission to eBay and a listing fee?
To me it is a Half item brought to the eBay auction format to get more exposure and chances of selling.
Listing on Half has zero gamble but listing on ebay does. This new feature brings the gamble to Half-caliber items.
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alldings
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posted on July 24, 2002 04:44:35 AM
It provides a sales venue for large & small retailers and mail order companies that may have been uncomfortable with eBays auction format. The eBay name attracts millions of online shoppers daily. No where can a seller get this kind of exposure for a product at such a low cost. In the words of our youth this program should "POP"!
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emak
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posted on July 24, 2002 06:45:32 AM
I haven't been able to answer this by reading ebay's notes on the new format, so I'm hoping someone here may know the answer to this.
I'm planning to use the new format quite a bit, as I feel it works well for my category. My plans are (hopefully) to list an item once at a set price, and if it doesn't sell, I may wait a few weeks and then re-list as an auction with a lower starting price.
Question - will ebay allow re-listing a fixed-price item as an auction? I can't see it being a problem for ebay - I'm more concerned that the site can handle the functionality.
Thanks.
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bidsbids
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posted on July 24, 2002 07:27:27 AM
It shouldn't make any difference to eBay if the price was lowered ( or raised ) on a relist of a fixed price item.
In a way the new format let's eBay sellers have a mini store with items searchable on the auction search engine.
I'm sure that eBay's goal is to help integrate the fixted prices into the auction section of it's venue. After the fixed prices become mainstream I am willing to bet that the 100 million items on Half will be blended in category by catagory. eBay will then be a huge Amazon-type venue with 5% to 10% of the items being in the auction format.
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emak
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posted on July 24, 2002 01:20:19 PM
What I'm wondering about is whether an item can be listed as a fixed-price item the first time, and then re-listed as an auction, and whether the refunding of listing fees would work the same as they do now when re-listing an auction as an auction.
I know a similar debate has been discussed on the ebay chat boards about re-listing an unsold auction as a store item. The questions there were logistical. My question here is both logistical and financial. It may be one that can't be answered until actually trying it.
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Japerton
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posted on July 25, 2002 01:47:40 PM
I wish they had longer times to let an item be up at a fixed price. Then I could experiment with some craft ideas I am working on.
hmmm.
I was going to try it with a magazine, but looking at the completed auctions and decided to risk an auction.
Just thinking out loud
Japerton
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