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. ;-)

A while back I sold about 76 betamax tapes (all with stuff on, but mostly
films that had probably only been watched once) - I put them on with £1 no
reserve and they fetched £5.50. Looking at other batches of blank betamax
tapes (of which there were very few) most had a start price of at least a
tenner, and I reckon even with a start price of £15 or even £20 I could have
sold them (they've got to be about £4 each new, so £20 for the lot is still
a real bargain). I was a bit gutted, and it was barely worth the effort,
but that's life I suppose.

And point taken about buy it now - it does kinda take the spirit away from
the auction, and even though it is in pretty good nick, a 2 litre CDX
Carlton Estate is nothing desperately unique or desirable.

Peter