I am Tosk wrote:
In , Bruce71
@gmail.com says...

Harry wrote:

Tim wrote:

Usually the winter time is when to find the bargains, and I always
like looking at ebay for boats, and I see some delicious craft that
should move and they're not even geting a bid. OR they have reserves
and starting bids so jacked up no one is interested.

Looks like some people are wanting to get out of them for what they
either have left on the loan, or they feel because it is apraised at
$15,000, it ought to sell for $15,000.


What ever happened to the $10.00 opening bids with a fair reserve?


Regardless, it looks like people are stuck with what they have.


It's possible that some sellers would rather keep their boat or
whatever than to sell it to some opportunistic shark.

I haven't shopped ebay in a long time. Last time I looked, it seemed
full of sellers who used their other accounts or the accounts of their
friends to sell merchandise.

How would you know that?

Bruce

He said "it seems"... I assume that means it is his opinion.. Either
way, it happens. Several years ago right here we had a guy who was
spamming us with his "boat stickers". I started watching his bidding
site on ebay and found that every item seemed to sell to similar sellers
for almost the exact same price. I went to his profile and found about 5
different "feedback" phrases repeated over and over again in a pattern..
I called it to the attention of EBay and they pulled him down. It was
pretty obvious he was bidding his own stuff up to keep the prices fixed
and when he didn't get his bid he simply bought it himself and put in
his own feedback.. Either way, I assume they (ebay) saw it they way I
did as they pulled him down a day or so later, and he dissappeared...

He would have paid the final value % to eBay. How can that be profitable?

Bruce