ebay advice please

[Guest benzo]

I've got a bunch of household stuff I want to sell on ebay.

When is the best time to list an auction- a weekend or a week day. And for small knick knacky objects like used CDs etc, do you think a 3 or 5 day auction is better? Should an auction end on a weekend or a week day?

Thanks for all your help.

Benzo

[Guest fluffcat1]

I personally find listings ending sunday afternoon do best - weekday afternoon and everybody's at work, evening endings and everyone's knackered after work, saturday afternoon and people are out shopping etc, evening and people are getting ready to go out, but sunday, all they're missing is a lie in or Heartbeat so a lot of people surf ebay.

Low value items need to be on for longer for people to see them. High value items will have a ready market and be seen quickly so a short period increases the buyers bidding 'urgency' if you like and you sometes get silly biddng wars as no-one likes to loose. :roll:

YMMV however.

Richard

[Guest benzo]

I personally find listings ending sunday afternoon do best - weekday afternoon and everybody's at work, evening endings and everyone's knackered after work, saturday afternoon and people are out shopping etc, evening and people are getting ready to go out, but sunday, all they're missing is a lie in or Heartbeat so a lot of people surf ebay.

Low value items need to be on for longer for people to see them. High value items will have a ready market and be seen quickly so a short period increases the buyers bidding 'urgency' if you like and you sometes get silly biddng wars as no-one likes to loose.  :roll:

YMMV however.

Richard

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Thanks for this advice.

I've sold a few things on ebay... and I have only had 2 successful auctions- U2 concert tickets and my sis's leather bag. The other stuff did terribly; hence I want to improve my ebaying skills.

I always thought that when people are at work, they'll browse ebay over lunch or when they have little to do.

I'll stick some of my stuff on Tuesday for a 5 day auction (will end on Sunday) and see how that goes.

Cheers.

[Guest Disco Stu]

Office workers may casually browse eBay when they get the chance but it's not so rewarding these days as you have to wade through so much crap.

The payment process is far too complicated to be done at work unless you have half an afternoon to waste. PayPal won't let me log in from my office PC for some reason that is cookie-related I imagine.

Colleagues who are eBay addicts get noticed, fast ! :)