Having quite the go of unloading all my Amiga titles.
Which most are in the Mint Condition category.
Hard to tell if that loisitaly account is a scam or not.
Time may or may not tell.
- Robert
There are some things you can do to increase the level of interest, which seller loisitaly did:
- List a number of similar items to end at around the same time, when a lot of users will be online (e.g. Sunday evening). Bidders who are interested in one item will likely be interested in the others, resulting in more bids.
- Offer cheap combined shipping if people win more than one item. That encourages more bids.
- Offer economical international shipping. That's very important for collectible/rare things. The idea is to (hopefully) attract deep-pockets non-US bidders. Even if they don't end up winning, more bids/interest can push the final price up significantly. Some items are much rarer/harder-to-find outside the USA, so foreign bidders will be prepared to pay more for them. Check user loisitaly's feedback profile; many of the userids shown are from outside the USA. If you were to disregard all the non-US bids, I bet many of that user's items would have sold for much less.
Going out on a limb here... is your eBay ID rob-c? Assuming it is... I took a look at some of your auctions and have some suggestions.
While you do offer international shipping, the costs are so high as to effectively put off non-US bidders. For example, item 320858837106 a couple of card brochures, or item 320858837190 a piece of card. Listed shipping to the UK is US$47 + $10 handling = $57. The cheapest USPS shipping would be under US$10. Adding Registered Mail to that would about double the cost, but still well under $47. I appreciate you might want to only use Priority Mail for some reason, but you should weigh that against the correspondingly much lower interest from non-US bidders.
