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<p>[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1922885, member: 31533"]I'll be interested in knowing how this goes. I used to sell on ebay and did have some items that sold for less than I paid for them because someone bid and it didn't get a lot of interest during the time it ran or because something happened at the end preventing bidders from going in.</p><p>Snipers can now not even 'watch' the item and yet get their bids in and no one knows until the end what will happen. This is to the buyer's advantage because although it might create some situations where the buyer really would have been willing to bid up in a 'war' for an item, most items are now being set more to the limit the buyer actually is willing to pay. And it's not to the seller's advantage to not be able to see the interest or if there is a bidder's war going on. And to some degree it can prevent shill bidding to bid up an actual buyer. </p><p>Yes, you do take your chances, but overall (on different items, not coin/currency) I've seen a lot of items realize their potential in the end. But you do never know and you might lose out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kasia, post: 1922885, member: 31533"]I'll be interested in knowing how this goes. I used to sell on ebay and did have some items that sold for less than I paid for them because someone bid and it didn't get a lot of interest during the time it ran or because something happened at the end preventing bidders from going in. Snipers can now not even 'watch' the item and yet get their bids in and no one knows until the end what will happen. This is to the buyer's advantage because although it might create some situations where the buyer really would have been willing to bid up in a 'war' for an item, most items are now being set more to the limit the buyer actually is willing to pay. And it's not to the seller's advantage to not be able to see the interest or if there is a bidder's war going on. And to some degree it can prevent shill bidding to bid up an actual buyer. Yes, you do take your chances, but overall (on different items, not coin/currency) I've seen a lot of items realize their potential in the end. But you do never know and you might lose out.[/QUOTE]
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