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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 1445483, member: 13650"]The point is, if people want to bid on an auction, they shouldn't have to be forced to buy additional software to be able to compete. Many people don't even know it exists. But those same people might be willing to pay more than the guy who has the software if they have a chance to respond at the end. </p><p><br /></p><p> It's easy to forget that there's two people involved in a transaction. We tend to only look at it from the buyer's perspective. The guy on the other end is trying to get the most for his item. Ebay sellers have to put up with a lot and take on a lot of risk these days. On top of losing 12% of every sale to ebay. It takes a 12% profit just to break even using ebay. They could throw sellers a bone and increase their own profit by implementing a time reset policy. Even a 1 minute recurring reset would change everything.</p><p><br /></p><p> There's times when I would like it and times where people are going to overpay more and you'd lose stuff that you would win right now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 1445483, member: 13650"]The point is, if people want to bid on an auction, they shouldn't have to be forced to buy additional software to be able to compete. Many people don't even know it exists. But those same people might be willing to pay more than the guy who has the software if they have a chance to respond at the end. It's easy to forget that there's two people involved in a transaction. We tend to only look at it from the buyer's perspective. The guy on the other end is trying to get the most for his item. Ebay sellers have to put up with a lot and take on a lot of risk these days. On top of losing 12% of every sale to ebay. It takes a 12% profit just to break even using ebay. They could throw sellers a bone and increase their own profit by implementing a time reset policy. Even a 1 minute recurring reset would change everything. There's times when I would like it and times where people are going to overpay more and you'd lose stuff that you would win right now.[/QUOTE]
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