Selling on ebay

[Enforcer-J]

Just wondering if there's anyone here with much experience with selling on ebay? Im looking at selling a few things and looking at getting over $300 for my bike for instance, ofcourse Id like to get as much as I can.
Am I better off putting a minimum of $250 and havin that insurance or is it worth not having a minimum bid and drum up interest (and the price) that way?

[ysu]

as far as i know the most interest and usually highest price can be achieved via a ridiculously low starting price. $10.
It takes balls though

[dvestate]

I would throw it on gumtree for a week or so at $50 more than you are after.

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[Enforcer-J]

Yeah I tried that, had some bites from 3 people but all of them just wanted to haggle.... so I'm trying ebay and letting the buyers haggle the price up between themselves. I've started with an amount I'd wouldnt be stoked about but would take.... I've got no bids but 10 watchers so hopefully that's a good sign I'll get about what I'm looking for

[ysu]

good luck.

the reason for the low starter price is to get it in front of more people, I think. It's expected that they'll put it on their watch-list. The real deal starts near the end, last day or so. What I don't remember is how long the auction should be...but it was something like a week I think,

[Enforcer-J]

Cheers! I've made it a week so we'll see how it goes

[ysu]

oh, I've read something else a while back:
there was also some notable thing scheduling the actual ending time for the auction. Google for it if you like. It was something about not timing the auction to end on a saturday night, nor at 4am, etc. So to maximise the potential ppl able to bid in the last hours/minutes.

Sorry I'm just putting this here, it comes back slowly.
But maybe it'll help next time (or someone else here), so we all know what to look out for.

[Exar Kun]

oh, I've read something else a while back:
there was also some notable thing scheduling the actual ending time for the auction. Google for it if you like. It was something about not timing the auction to end on a saturday night, nor at 4am, etc. So to maximise the potential ppl able to bid in the last hours/minutes.

Sorry I'm just putting this here, it comes back slowly.
But maybe it'll help next time (or someone else here), so we all know what to look out for.

Pretty simple really. Time it for Sunday nights or weekday lunches or nights.

[Shonky]

I will usually set my auctions to end on a Tuesday night around 7-8pm, I base this on the stats from my work's website, Tuesday night is the busiest night with visits tapering off to Saturday night being the least amount of visits.

Whether this helps getting the best price out of the auction is an unknown but I don't think it can hurt.

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[dvestate]

I always tend to end mine during the weekday lunch time slots or between 7-10pm at night, times that I know I'm on the net checking out ebay etc