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>----- Original Message -----
>If you're only going to get 1 bid on Ebay, and you're only going to get
1 bid on MPB -- and it is cheaper to set the minimum price you really want
on the item at >MPB... instead of settling for a lower minimum than you
really want on eBay to save on fees... then you make more money selling
that item on MPB. Does it >really matter if 20 people look at your item and
only 1 bids the minimum or 8 people look at your item and 1 bids the
minimum?
>Naturally, the most desirable items still get some competitive bidding
-- this will be true on Ebay or MPB.
I'm not sure I agree with this.
If the desirable items get competitive bidding
anywhere, then that means the items we are talking
about selling for one bid and/or the minimum are not desirable items (and very likely
common items).
Since MPB's main audience is made up of this list
and other hardcore collectors, isn't it very likely
that they already have the item in question (if
it's common), or that they have no interest in
it if it's not a desirable item?
So what we are really looking at on these items
is eight people who have no interest glance at
it on MPB, while on eBay those eight people
also glance, but of the other 12 (who might have
been there looking for the video, or something else
alltogether because of the wide
variety of available items) hopefully one will
actually make an impulse purchase and buy it.
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