One suggestion: a minimum bid amount unit. I was bidding for a site recently in another thread (private auction a al SBI’s effort), and was told that my bid wasn’t significantly different (it was $1 or $5 -forget which- more than the previous bid). But the terms of THAT auction did not specify a minimum…
It seems a few years ago, but Ebay used to be the primary online auction until greed, success, and investors on main street got a hold of it. Ebay upped its fees, included main street items, and practices, and started vetting accounts of Ebay members. The result, its stock price hasn’t gone anywhere in recent…
I was sitting in class with my students on Tuesday, when the older of the two young men (about 21 years of age) announced that he had been selling diet pills on Yahoo! Auctions. I was surprised, and he showed me the ones he was running that day. You could have knocked me over with…
Ebay has been around for quite some time, and a lot of their members have been both buyers and sellers. But as with all businesses, they became quite big, and forgot who or what they were about. So a lot of sellers have left them, and gone onto other auction sites for specialist items, regional…