Could you provide the website and the eBay item number? Without being able
to see either one it's hard to say but it sounds like he's simply willing to
take more money for his product if people are willing to pay it and/or don't
know that they can buy the kit from a website.
But he's not willing to sell it for less than it's priced on his website,
hence the $90 reserve. So if you want one of his kits you're going to have
to pay at least $90 either way. Might as well order one when you want from
the website.
Bottom line is the vender is not really auctioning his product he's just
seeing how many suckers are out there...and there's lots of us ;)
Bud Rolofson
71TR6 CC57365 (Good 6)
66TR4A CTC57806 (The Wreck-Almost Parts)
66TR4A CTC57529 (The Project)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Hooper" <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:45 PM
Subject: Need Ebay knowledge
> I understand how Ebay works as an auction. However I have seen many
objects
> in the TR6 category that are clearly people selling new items that they
are
> themselves manufacturing. How does this fit into the auction mechanism?
>
> For example, the gentleman selling the tube shock conversion for $90 on
his
> web site is also listing it in Ebay. His reserve is $90. This has
presently
> 4 bidders and the reserve is labelled has having been met with the present
> bid at $90. So did the first 3 people bid less than the reserve
(pointless).
> The same goes for the maker of Triumph cuff links at $7.99 and clocks
> (forget price).
>
> Why would I bid $90.01 when I know that he wishes to sell as many kits as
he
> can (by the way it looks like a nice kit) at $90.
>
> Perhaps I am being obtuse here, but could somebody explain the mechanism
at
> play? Surely I am not supposed to wait for days for one set to be sold at
> the "reserve" price and then hope to be the next in line to bid the actual
> sale price. Seems odd.
>
> Mark Hooper
> 72 TR6 (in need of a tube conversion) ;^)
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