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<p>[QUOTE="Silverfingers, post: 1550167, member: 21653"]<span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">There are two items which you mentioned that I believe(along w/others here) contributed to your bad experience.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">Reserves say to me, "The person wants too much for it" or "whyis their item so special that they don't want to tell you what they want forit". Why not just set your price and let it go from there? Start it out onauction for what you would like to get for it and let it go from there or use a"buy it now or best offer". On the one listing you took it personalthat someone offered you a low price, which you cannot do. Set the "minimum price" on the best offer and you don't have to take the time to weed outthe lower offers. I buy and sell a lot of coins on eBay. Coins I buy are usually auctions or buyit now, I hardly ever bid on reserve auctions. </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">When I sell, if I need togenerate cash I will set the auction lower than I would like to get for it anddeal with what it goes for. Sometimes starting items low on auction, they gofor more money than I had them for sale as a buy it now. Otherwise, i just set them on buy it now with best offer higher than I would take and see what happens.</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Silverfingers, post: 1550167, member: 21653"][COLOR=#222222][FONT=Verdana]There are two items which you mentioned that I believe(along w/others here) contributed to your bad experience. Reserves say to me, "The person wants too much for it" or "whyis their item so special that they don't want to tell you what they want forit". Why not just set your price and let it go from there? Start it out onauction for what you would like to get for it and let it go from there or use a"buy it now or best offer". On the one listing you took it personalthat someone offered you a low price, which you cannot do. Set the "minimum price" on the best offer and you don't have to take the time to weed outthe lower offers. I buy and sell a lot of coins on eBay. Coins I buy are usually auctions or buyit now, I hardly ever bid on reserve auctions. When I sell, if I need togenerate cash I will set the auction lower than I would like to get for it anddeal with what it goes for. Sometimes starting items low on auction, they gofor more money than I had them for sale as a buy it now. Otherwise, i just set them on buy it now with best offer higher than I would take and see what happens.[/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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