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"P©WÉ®T©©LMAN ²ºº4"

17/07/2004 9:51 PM

Sat night not good for eBay sellers

You know I thought Saturday night would be a good night to have listings end
for a change but I guess week nights are better.

Lots ending in a hour with no bids as yet...back to Thursday nights I guess
:-)

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=lamblies&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50

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"You cannot make someone love you.
All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in."


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"Mortimer Schnerd, RN"

in reply to "P©WÉ®T©©LMAN ²ºº4" on 17/07/2004 9:51 PM

17/07/2004 10:13 PM

P©WÉ®T©©LMAN ²ºº4 wrote:
> You know I thought Saturday night would be a good night to have listings end
> for a change but I guess week nights are better.
>
> Lots ending in a hour with no bids as yet...back to Thursday nights I guess


Funny you should mention that... I've been following an auction that's due to
end in about half an hour on a Milwaukee 18V drill. I'd done a little research
on it and determined what I could buy it at any time from Amazon with free
shipping. The current seller set the reserve so high that I can't buy his drill
for any less, even after I bid three times. I decided to bag it. I know what
the Amazon drill will cost and I don't have to jump through any hoops to get it.

So sad, too bad. If I had to guess, I'd say he's not gonna sell that drill
tonight. Of course, you never know.... there's some dummies out there who might
get auction fever. Time will tell.




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Da

"David"

in reply to "P©WÉ®T©©LMAN ²ºº4" on 17/07/2004 9:51 PM

18/07/2004 6:50 AM

To add to this, ending at night isn't the best time. My wife has been
running an ebay business for some time, and she has found the optimal time
to post/end auctions is between noon and 2pm on Tues-Thur. (This is Pacific,
so it could be 3-5pm on the east coat.

After I changed web hosts recently, I had a detailed statistics engine
hooked and could see that sure enough this time period has the most
hits/views than any other time of the day/week.

Additionally, Internet traffic during the warm summer months is always much
lower than in the winter. Fall/Winter auctions do far better than
Spring/Summer.


So a Saturday Night auction in the middle of summer is definitely going
low!!

-David

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Thanks,
David W. Lovell
( Intrepid )
"P©WÉ®T©©LMAN ²ºº4" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> You know I thought Saturday night would be a good night to have listings
end
> for a change but I guess week nights are better.
>
> Lots ending in a hour with no bids as yet...back to Thursday nights I
guess
> :-)
>
>
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=lamblies&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50
>
> --
> © Jon Down ®
> http://www.stores.ebay.com/jdpowertoolcanada
> "You cannot make someone love you.
> All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in."
>
>


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