"bigegg" wrote in message
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AstraVanMan wrote:


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

Entirely agreed. Interestingly I have a book which has collected some data
on this and found the optimum time to be 8:15pm on Sunday night!

But the 2 weekends issue is important as you do get some bids from the first
weekend.

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.

Interestingly no-one came to view the cars before bidding/buying. If you
supply it with a brand new MOT then that is usually enough. Quite a lot of
people don't really know enough about cars to know what to look for anyway.

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.

All very true.

I started the Merc off at £1, and on the first day of frantic bidding (just
4 and a half hours) it had hit £8k (which has to be some sort of record!).
It finished off at £14.5k

Other people were trying to sell Merc SLs with buy-it-nows of lower prices,
and not getting anywhere.

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...

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