Ebay madness

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Sun Aug 5 10:07:41 2001

Once an auction is started there are a couple things that are locked and
non-editable. Buy-it-now and reserve are changeable but starting bid is
locked. Location is locked. You can edit title, description, pictures, and
much more but not location or starting bid. If you blow it on this then you
have to close the auction early and the either redo the listing or use the
"relist" found on the closed page.

I know this for sure after 3 yrs and over 250 posts just on this ebay
account I have. There have been both loosenings on aspects as well as
tighenings in various areas. Ebay has made some good changes, some bad but
it all seems to balance and if it didn't it wouldn't have the buyer/seller
base it does after just a few short years.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Richard Erlacher
-> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 9:33 PM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: Re: Ebay madness
->
->
-> 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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Received on Sun Aug 05 2001 - 10:07:41 BST