grendeth
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posted on April 25, 2000 06:59:57 AM new
I have a question for all you Yahoonites out here. This is with regards to Yahoo Auctions 'BUY' price which I use on 99% of my auctions.
Item: XYZ
5 days auction
Start Price: $1.00
Buy Price: $2.00
Bidder bids $2.00 & auction closes immediately after 2 days.
To my understanding, the buyer has to pay me $2. Is this correct because I have a new buyer here that is telling me, he should only pay me $1?.
Also another peculiar issue with 'BUY' price. When you go to your close auction page it will list the winning bid for item XYZ as $1 but when you click on the auction itself to get the buyer's info, the winning bid is stated as $2.
Anybody notice this. Thank you.
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kasmoon
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posted on April 25, 2000 08:24:01 AM new
I have heard that when the buy price wasn't met the Yahoo closed letters or your closed page shows the full buy price. That certainly causes confusion so you have to rely on the adv bid hist page.
The auction shouldn't have closed early unless he bid the $2.00, pull up the ad and click bid history then advanced bid history. That is the record of how much and what time he bid.
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moonmem-07
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posted on April 25, 2000 09:12:50 AM new
You know the buyer has chosen the buy price when the auction has closed early. I have been having the same problem with 2 different prices listed as the closing price. I just keep track if the auction closed early or not. If your auction closed early, the buyer bid to your buy price. The buyer should know that. I use buy prices when I have a reserve auction. Melanie
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dman3
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posted on April 25, 2000 07:00:38 PM new
The buyer always pays the buy price to close the auction 
I use the buy price and most will pay the extra for the buy price to end the auction at that time.
they pay my buy price and shipping all are happy.
anytime an auctions buy price is met you will have an earily colse and when you check your closed auction there high bid will be shown there is no doubt .
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ljbannan
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posted on April 25, 2000 09:55:23 PM new
dman3 I wouldn't swear by that right now. I've got a few auctions going screwy on Yahoo at the moment!
Two of my auctions show a bidder winning 2 at the buy price AND I got the Yahoo notice. I only have 1 of each item and the auction did not end. Kinda strange!!!
I also have an auction that just closed with something I haven't seen before. I hope someone can help me figure it out! 4 items on dutch auction. It shows 7 bids but only 2 winners. There is also a "reserve winner"?!?!?! that bid less than the opening bid. Any ideas?
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ljbannan
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posted on April 25, 2000 10:01:44 PM new
Did some checking and figured some of it out. I shouldn't try to do this when I'm tired! It was dutch but only 2 items. One did go for higher than opening bid which makes sense. But still how did someone bid less than the opening bid? I didn't realize you could do that?
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grendeth
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posted on April 26, 2000 06:20:03 AM new
kasmoon, I will use the example in the 1st posting to illustrate my point.
The bidder did buy $2 which is in this case my BUY price & the auction closes. Now he is saying that he should only pay $1 which is the start price since there isn't anyone else bidding. Well yeah since the auction closed immediately after he met the buy price, how the heck can anyone outbid you anyway.
This is a new Yahoo user that doesn't want to listen but instead is telling me how it should be done.
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ljbannan
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posted on April 26, 2000 08:19:21 AM new
grendeth I just looked up Yahoo!s bidding information and they don't have a long explaination but it may help.
"What is the Buy Price?
The Buy Price is the price at which the seller is willing to "close" an auction. The auction closes automatically when a bidder meets the seller's buy price. However, it is not necessary for the Buy Price to be met in order for the auction to close successfully "
Maybe you should ask them to join this thread so we can "educate" them? I've had quite a few bidders snipe my auctions at the buy price!! No other bidders but right before the auction closes someone bids the buy price. Some people just don't get it!
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grendeth
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posted on April 26, 2000 11:53:33 AM new
I don't mind someone buying at my Price as long as they are willing to pay for it at the 'Buy' price.
But when you bid on the Buy price & you close the auction immediately, how the hell can someone outbid you. Then you come in & say you want the book at the start price because you are the only bidder. In that case all the buy price is, it guarantees you the book without getting outbid.
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ljbannan
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posted on April 26, 2000 12:12:04 PM new
grendeth That's exactly why I don't understand the bidders I've had "snipe" at the buy price. I get a laugh out of it though!! If I were in your shoes I'd send them the desc of "buy price" and let it slide this time. I would also tell them they will be held to the buy price the next time they purchase from me! I just don't think I'd risk a neg from a newbie over $1.
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dman3
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posted on April 26, 2000 03:49:43 PM new
When I get auction closeing with the buy price I simply send out EOA with the total for the buy price and shipping .
there should be no questions on this since there email from yahoo states the buy price you always pay your high bid pluss shipping.
if they want to question me on it its simple they can pay the bid or have the neg feed back I wont be bullied even for $2 this is an after work lesure time thing Im not a high stress corp whos paying many people to wrestle for me.
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comic123
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posted on April 27, 2000 09:00:48 AM new
dman3 is right. I hate it when I have to educate buyers on how to use or understand Yahoo Auctions. Seems to me, this buyer is either confused about the 'Buy' price or maybe he just wants to be dirt cheap & try to wiggle out of a few bucks.
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jwpc
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posted on April 28, 2000 06:50:26 AM new
I ALWAYS use BUY PRICE, on over 200 auctions, but my start price and my BUY PRICE are always the same so there is never any confusion...
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