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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1552594, member: 13650&quot;]This has been a great discussion here.&nbsp;&nbsp; 99% of the time, I&#039;m the buyer on ebay so I have plenty of my own insight from that perspective.&nbsp;&nbsp; I agree that as a seller, I can&#039;t trust people to bid on stuff reasonably without having a reserve.&nbsp; I&#039;m not going to give something away and then get hammered on fees just to say I sold something.&nbsp;&nbsp; The problem is, you could list the same item 5 different weeks and get 5 different final sale prices depending on who&#039;s watching.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe you list on bad week and lose out?</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Sometimes I&#039;ll list at .99 just to generate interest.&nbsp;&nbsp; Everybody will check out something listed cheap even if there is a reserve.&nbsp;&nbsp; People say they&#039;re scared away by them but I&#039;m not.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m almost more interested and have no fear bidding on something with a reserve.&nbsp; I&#039;ll let the auction play out and if we don&#039;t meet it, and I want the item, I have contacted the seller to see what the reserve was.&nbsp; Sometimes work out a deal on it in the end.</p><p>&nbsp; Ebay charges to use reserves because they want items selling no matter what the price.&nbsp; If you list something for free, take up their server space for 7 days and then it doesn&#039;t sell, they don&#039;t make any money.&nbsp;&nbsp; So they try to steer people away from it by charging for it.&nbsp; This doesn&#039;t mean not using one is always in your best interest.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Probably the best bet is to just list something for the minimum you will accept and be done with it.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; Personally, I like the best offer option too.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some people are very generous, others I don&#039;t know why they even use it.&nbsp;&nbsp; I like making offers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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