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I've got one of my bikes up on ebay right now because I cant really justify having 3.
I didnt want to let it go for pennies so I paid the fee to have a fair reserve on it. (less than its worth IMO) 7 day listing which within 2 days was only about £500 off the reserve, then today someone with no feedback has bid it up to the reserve. I have absolutely no doubt that the bidder will pull out, but it means I've had my reserve shown to everyone
Its still got 2 days to go so hopefully somebody else will show a little interest but its just bloody annoying!!!!
I didnt want to let it go for pennies so I paid the fee to have a fair reserve on it. (less than its worth IMO) 7 day listing which within 2 days was only about £500 off the reserve, then today someone with no feedback has bid it up to the reserve. I have absolutely no doubt that the bidder will pull out, but it means I've had my reserve shown to everyone
Its still got 2 days to go so hopefully somebody else will show a little interest but its just bloody annoying!!!!
Just remove their bids, I don't see the problem, unless two people want it the bids might not even reach your reserve, ebay classified ad with best offer is the only way to sell a car or bike on ebay, no zero rated bidders winning and never appearing, no muppets generally, you don't end the auction until the car/bike is heading up the road with its new owner.
Jazoli said:
Just remove their bids, I don't see the problem, unless two people want it the bids might not even reach your reserve, ebay classified ad with best offer is the only way to sell a car or bike on ebay, no zero rated bidders winning and never appearing, no muppets generally, you don't end the auction until the car/bike is heading up the road with its new owner.
I was about to remove the bids when he messaged me, wants to view the bike tomorrow so possibly genuine after all.I suppose I'll see tomorrow.
You can exclude people with 0 feedback from bidding and only allow people that X amount of feedback to bid etc - its in 'buyer requirements' when you create the listing.
Sold my old bike on ebay last week, had 70 watchers and no bids until the last few mins, started it at £1000 no reserve
Sold my old bike on ebay last week, had 70 watchers and no bids until the last few mins, started it at £1000 no reserve
Lol, I just thought exactly the same 
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It's not nice reading the new T's&C's. Less of an issue for ebay motors stuff where commission is 1% unless you go classified ad where there is no comis. Thing is, 10% on regular auction stuff is greedy, especially if you add paypal's nigh on 4% on top of that! Ebay at the least ought to eradicate paypal fees on ebay purchases or someone else will come along and take up market share.
!!It's not nice reading the new T's&C's. Less of an issue for ebay motors stuff where commission is 1% unless you go classified ad where there is no comis. Thing is, 10% on regular auction stuff is greedy, especially if you add paypal's nigh on 4% on top of that! Ebay at the least ought to eradicate paypal fees on ebay purchases or someone else will come along and take up market share.
NITO said:
Thing is, 10% on regular auction stuff is greedy, especially if you add paypal's nigh on 4% on top of that! Ebay at the least ought to eradicate paypal fees on ebay purchases or someone else will come along and take up market share.
eBay owns PayPal, so it's all the same mafia - not sure anyone from the outside would be able to replace PP as the form of payment for the bay of evil.When I said market share I meant the likes of Shpock as in a selling platform or however it's spelt even though it's a bit crap, Gumtree got close as an alternative and ebay bought it and made it crap lol. If someone like Apple, Google or even Facebook got in on the action they could make a serious dent on ebay, it's a good system just too expensive imho. I would prefer to give or throw away stuff than put it on ebay as the hassle of dealing with messers, packaging and posting and then all the fees on top barely make it worthwhile a lot of the time, I usually feel like I've been completely had whenever I sell anything on there!
No more contacting sellers via email from ebay to ask a question, so no more deals to be done via email while there advert is live, classifieds might be different . I have just tried to ask a genuine question about an item that I am prepared to bid on but ebays new terms don't allow it 
This is a brave move from ebay to stop deals being done outside there rules but fook em, I cant bid on my interested item because there description doesn't give me the info I need.
This is a brave move from ebay to stop deals being done outside there rules but fook em, I cant bid on my interested item because there description doesn't give me the info I need.
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