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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 17, 2020, 12:15:45 am ---When a popular item starts at 99c it shows up in everyone's searches and pretty soon you have idiots nickle & diming each other to death days before the auction ends. It almost always sells for much more that way.
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I've been doing this for about 20 years, it works. if you know an item will be popular then start is at 99 cents and watch them go nuts. I've never really been caught out by a low final bid price.
Not hard to research previous prices and bids for the same item.
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Nusa on March 16, 2020, 11:44:28 pm ---I can give a first-hand report on two different Costos near me in the San Diego, California area.
Toilet paper and bottled water got hit hard over a week ago
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You can't give away bottled water here. The shelves are full of it. Either that or the supply chains for water are incredibly good.
Nusa:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 17, 2020, 12:20:54 am ---
--- Quote from: Nusa on March 16, 2020, 11:44:28 pm ---I can give a first-hand report on two different Costos near me in the San Diego, California area.
Toilet paper and bottled water got hit hard over a week ago
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You can't give away bottled water here. The shelves are full of it. Either that or the supply chains for water are incredibly good.
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I don't really get it either. I keep a few bottles in the van for road emergencies, and some more in the freezer to put in coolers on road trips. At home I use a reverse osmosis filter to get good tasting tap water, although it's safe enough even without the filter.
james_s:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on March 17, 2020, 12:18:58 am ---I've been doing this for about 20 years, it works. if you know an item will be popular then start is at 99 cents and watch them go nuts. I've never really been caught out by a low final bid price.
Not hard to research previous prices and bids for the same item.
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Yep, me too. I *always* start my auctions at 99c. If I have something that I know is worth something to the right buyer but doesn't have the same mass appeal then I just use BIN and set it at a reasonable price based on the actual selling price of similar items.
Ebay is an interesting study in psychology, as a buyer I can only shake my head when I see people getting in bidding wars when there's 5 days left to the auction. I *never* bid prior to the final day unless it's just to toss in a lowball opening bid to nix the BIN option if I want to gamble on getting a better deal. All the real action happens in the final seconds. Outbidding someone with days left accomplishes *nothing* except driving the price up and nudging them to spend more than they were originally willing. Love it as a seller but it's absolutely stupid and irrational behavior. I don't think older folks grasp the critical difference between online auctions that have a defined end time and live auctions that keep going as long as people keep bidding.
james_s:
--- Quote from: Nusa on March 17, 2020, 12:37:33 am ---I don't really get it either. I keep a few bottles in the van for road emergencies, and some more in the freezer to put in coolers on road trips. At home I use a reverse osmosis filter to get good tasting tap water, although it's safe enough even without the filter.
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I never understood the bottled water thing but maybe our tap water is better than most places. The bottled water tastes like plastic to me, tap water has no taste at all.
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