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AstraVanMan wrote:
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.

I use ebay a fair bit mainly for buying. And things with a reserve or
'buy it now' price put me off - both are against the spirit of an auction.
Perhaps if something was unique, and I desperately wanted it, I'd bid, but
this doesn't apply to most cars etc.

Of all the various stuff I've sold without reserve, only one thing failed
to make a price I was happy with, and that was a near unused but several
years old hover mower which only got 6 quid. And I'd underestimated the
postage costs. But I got positively *glowing* feedback from the buyer. ;-)

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