My most fascinating experience was with onsale.com, before egghead bought
them. There were two tabs on the website, one for auctions and one for
retail. Same items, just bidding vs. buying. People would regularly bid up
items over what you could buy them outright. This isn't like ebay, where
you'd have to do homework----just a different tab on the same webpage.
Tom
From: "John Cwiklinski" <johncw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tom Scales wrote:
>
> >I've found the same experience on selling. Something about the bidding
> process gets people quite excited.
>
> I have been following a Tamrac camera bag over the past couple of months
> that the same company has listed a number of times. Except for 1 instance,
> the bag has sold for about $20.00 (+ S&H) over what the company is
> normally selling it on their website! I wonder whether the company makes
> them pay the eBay price or their regular website price? I also wonder
> whether these types of eBay buyers are lazy, on some sort of mind-bending
> hallucinogen or have lots of disposable cash. I have seen the same
> phenomena on the CompactFlash (digital memory) side of Ebay, too. In any
> event, I agree with Tom: Something about the bidding process gets people
> quite excited.
>
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> John Cwiklinski
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