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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3332714, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t know if our know-it-all posters ever post anything over on the US or bullion sections of Coin Talk or if their mission in life is to show how much they don&#039;t know about ancient coins.&nbsp; Somewhere along the way, eBay decided to waste everyone&#039;s time by encouraging people to start their auctions at a totally unrealistic level rather than to rely on multiple bidders running up the prices to a level fair to both parties.&nbsp; If they charged professional listers who rarely sell anything, perhaps we would be spared all those uncleaned rejects and fakes looking for a buyer who knows less about the subject than they do.&nbsp; There was a time that many coins started at 1 cent and were seen by enough people that there was no danger of the coin selling low.&nbsp; Now, it is not unusual to see coins not worth the postage charge so I, for one, spend a lot less time looking for coins and miss the good ones.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In the beginning eBay was billed as a place to bring together buyers and sellers but now we have a good place to find professional merchant listers in place of people cleaning out the attic. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to see an option for listings that counted down from a start price until someone bought the one of a kind item.&nbsp; This would not work for stocked merchandise like new USB drives but would be fine for ancient coins or other one of a kind used items.&nbsp; A seller could always buy his own lot and pay eBay their fee if he did not want to sell at that level.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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