Ebay madness

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Aug 4 21:32:55 2001

How sure are you of this? I do recall reading on their site that there's a way
to make corrections, under a heading somewhat like "what if I mistype ...?"

I can see why they'd do things the way you suggest, however. They do make their
money from the listing fees after all.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 7:45 PM
Subject: RE: Ebay madness


> You can't ammend the starting price unless you close the auction and then
> relist it - which could get you a posting fee if it doesn't go the second
> time around.
>
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Richard Erlacher
> -> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 5:41 PM
> -> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> -> Subject: Re: Ebay madness
> ->
> ->
> -> I'd guess that the guy who listed this thing meant $250.00, but
> -> wasn't clever
> -> enough to figure out how to amend his listing without prejudice.
> -> Clearly he
> -> could have done that any time, since there were no bids. Lots
> -> of folks don't
> -> like to read the instructions.
> ->
> -> Dick
> ->
> -> ----- Original Message -----
> -> From: "Chuck McManis" <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
> -> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> -> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 4:34 PM
> -> Subject: RE: Ebay madness
> ->
> ->
> -> > At 03:08 AM 8/4/01 +0100, you wrote:
> -> > >At 07:53 pm 03/08/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> -> > > >I w onder what the posting fee is on a starting bid of $25K
> -> ?? eBay doesn't
> -> > > >care if he doesn't get a bid either, they make a nice
> -> posting fee for that.
> -> >
> -> > Max listing fee is $3.30 so he could have a starting bid of
> -> $1,000,000 and
> -> > still only pay $3.30 to list it.
> -> > --Chuck
> -> >
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