"AstraVanMan" wrote in message
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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.

I'm thinking either early Saturday afternoon, or mid to late Sunday
afternoon/evening?

What do people reckon?

PING Oliver Keating - you've got good prices for a fair few cars in the
past
on ebay - what's your opinion?

The traditional advice is to start the auction on Thursday at about 20:15,
run for 10 days and finish on Sunday evening at about 20:15, as Sunday
evening is usually the peak browsing time for ebay. You don't want it to end
too early or otherwise people might miss it, and end it too late and people
will have gone to bed etc. so they won't try and fight off "snipers" - this
can in itself drive the price up in the last few minutes.

And £1 no reserve is the way to go.

If you start the auction at the price you want, then you have either
over-estimated it (and it just won't sell), or people will be unwilling to
pay much more than what they think you think its worth.

If you set a reserve, bidding won't be as frantic as people will know that
there isn't a real bargain to be had. If you set the reserve too high people
won't bid to it, set it too low, and again people are weary about bidding
much higher than what they think *you* think its worth.

I am sure that e-bay motors is by far a sufficiently large market that £1
no reserve is safe

Oh and another thing - reject all "buy it now" people. They are after a
bargain.

Peter