Right, I'm soon to sell a couple of cars on ebay, and was wondering
what people's opinions are as to the best time of the week for the
auction to finish.

You want to try and cause a last minute bidding frenzy where people will
bid over the odds - I find a very good method is to start at a very low
start
(a pound?), and run for the full ten days, ending at the busiest times of
the
week - which is NOT saturday!

Early evening (8-10pm) on a Thursday and Friday seem to be busiest times
for
UK only auction. But ideally you want the auction to run
across two weekends to allow people to view, so 9 o'clock Sunday Night is
probably
best. - This means starting your auction 9pm Thursday night

Both good points - both have their pros and cons I suppose - if it finished
on a Thursday/Friday then I could make arrangements for it to be collected
at the weekend, whereas if it finished on the Sunday it could be another
week before it's collected, but there is the advantage that it's running
across two weekends, like you say.

Saturday afternoon - not so sure. You're competing with sports, shopping,
and all
the other domestic stuff you don't get the rest of the week, plus, you
only get one
weekend to arrange viewing.

Good point.

Buy It Now prices, and Reserve auctions seem to put people off. If you
start a car
at a quid, you'll get lots of interest early on from people chasing a
bargain. Serious
buyers may bid as well. After watching the auction for 10 days, they're
likely to
bid higher because there is a sense that they will have wasted all that
time if they
don't win.

What I was thinking of doing is setting a low reserve (something around
£300, which it will easily reach) and a buy it now of £1200 (cue ****-taking
now!), with the only point of the reserve being that people have a few days
to decide whether to use buy it now, other than either messing around with a
high reserve, or a buy it now without a reserve that disappears as soon as a
bid is placed. Maybe not - all stuff like this does just tend to put people
off to some extent or another.

Just my 10p worth. I've never sold a car on ebay. I've sold a lot of other
stuff tho,
and bought a couple of cars.

YMMV and stuff...

Cheers for all that.

Peter