eBay Blues

eBay Seller: comicbookreviewer: Comics, Accessories items on eBay.com

Okay, so everyone here knows I love eBay. What's not to love? eBay is revolution in online selling that is not going anywhere anytime soon. You can sell anything on eBay. ANYTHING!!! Heck, you can sell a rock on eBay so long as you call it special. No other website lets you do that. There is, however, one major problem with eBay, and it's a problem I thought they would have fixed by now. Now, eBay is supposed to be a auction site, but ever since Snippers have entered the site, bidding has taken a back seat to cheating jerks who basically steal items. See, eBay maes it so that if you post an item, you're item will stay up for a certain period of time. It makes sense, but the problem comes when someone bids on an item at the last minute, and outbids someone on something.

Essentially, this is cheating, because in a real auction if you make a bid, regardless how big it is, the auctioner always asks if someone wants to top it (because you just never know). The problem is, this is not something eBay does. If someone outsides you in the last ten seconds of the auctions end, you lose the item, and you have no way of getting another bid at it. People realized this, and so now you don't see too much bidding on eBay, but snipping. I sell items on eBay all the time. Right now I have several old comic books up on eBay. OLD comic books! These things are worth a ton of money, and I started them out at $0.99. The problem is, I have more then ten people watching several of the comics, yet no one is bidding.

No one really bids anymore, because they would rather snipe the item instead of fight for it (which makes the proce go up). It's gotten to the point where I might as well start the auctions and make them only last one day, seeing as how the last day is the only day you'll get bids on an item these days. It's annoying to seeing 47 people watch an item that you know is in high demand, yet have absolutely no one bid on it. It's also unfair because if someone outbids someone else on an item I'm selling, I'd like the person who got outbid to get another chance at bidding on the item, because that person might big more. Yahoo has it where if someone bids on an item in the last five minutes of the auction, five minutes is added to the auction. If eBay implanted this one basic feature, then the problem with snippers would basically go away.

At the moment I've got some items up that are rare. A signed Rurouni Kenshin book. Everyone wants that. Too bad it probably won't sell. Instead of bidding on it to reach the reserve, people are watching it, most likely hoping to put in one large bid at the last minute and hope that's the magic number.

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