Howdy y'all, To get any business 'off the ground' ... requires a lot of time, effort, patience, and $$$.
I applaud anyone who is willing to undertake such a massive risk, and I wish all good fortune. I do not mean to advise anyone on how to operate a business, if it works for you and and all your customers, so be it. However ... If you are licensed auctioneers, you have a fiduciary responsibility to the seller (consignor). Providing that responsibility AND the best customer service should be an equally important goal, not a balancing act. ad ________________________________ From: Sean Linkenback <s...@platinumposters.com> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Sniping Yes, we could add a sniping feature to our website and not pay them every month. But we have opted to go with more transparency. This way you know your bid is with a third party company and there is no way that we can find it out. Sniping is also about saving our customers time. Not everyone has the time (or desire) to sit in front of a computer all night and fight back and forth in $2 or $5 increments. Sniping allows you to set a bid and have it executed at the end of the auction without having to tie your night to the computer. We do have the capability to have time-extended auctions (we had this programmed as an option when building the site), but will choose to save it for a more signature-event type auction instead of weekly auctions. At this juncture we choose not to ask our customers to tie themselves for hours (or even minutes) to their computers to watch the end of our auctions by necessity, but of coruse they can do so if that is how they would like to choose to spend their time. If a consignor would like to get the absolute most for their posters, they should strongly consider using our fixed price listings. Earlier this year we sold a War of the Worlds half sheet for $33,000.00 using our fixed price feature - a price that would be difficult to replicate at auction no matter how long the time was extended, and just this week we sold a Mighty Joe Young poster for $2,600.00 another very strong price for our consignor. And with only a 10% commission, you will end up with more money of the selling price in your pocket than any other poster seller. www.MoviePosterExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: evanzwei...@comcast.net [mailto:evanzwei...@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 09:57 PM To: s...@platinumposters.com Cc: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Sniping It seems like you could add that feature to your web site and not have to pay them every month. However, it seems like a bit of a conflict of interest. Basically, the argument for sniping is that the buyer will get a better price on the item. As the auction house, your responsibility lies with the seller. When you are paying a 3rd party to supply a service which is designed to get your consignors LESS money -- well, that seems just plain wrong. But, that's just my opinion. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: s...@platinumposters.com To: evanzwei...@comcast.net, MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:10:26 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [MOPO] Sniping Gavelsnipe charges plenty for their services. We pay them every month so that it is free for our customers. -----Original Message----- From: Evan Zweifel [mailto:evanzwei...@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 08:47 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Sniping Funny. I wonder how long a business can last without actually charging for their services.From a technical stand point, it seems like the best solution would be to have the individual auction houses support snipe bidding. So, when you bid on eBay or emovieposter, you could just register your bid as "snipe", and it would execute the bid with 0 seconds left.Of course, you would have to trust the auction house to execute your bid fairly. But it seems like people already trust the snipe sites with their user/passwords.Evan----- Original Message -----From: JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDUSent: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:34:16 -0000 (UTC)Subject: Re: [MOPO] SnipingThe reason I asked the question is that I recently started using Gavelsnipe after paying another site for a number of years. Gavelsnipe has worked very well for me and I now wonder how long the other sites will be able last if they continue charging a fee for sniping.JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIAWebsite: www.moviemem.comFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/moviememPO Box 92ElanoraQld 4221Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Sean Linkenback To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 3:38 PM Subject: Re: [MOPO] Sniping What exactly does the customer support do on the pay sites if your bid doesn't go through? Do they go ahead and buy the item for you anyways? Or do they do the same thing the free sites do and say sorry about that, we'll try to make sure it doesn't happen again? Gavelsnipe places bids from two different servers to help ensure 99.99% placement success. I have used them dozens and dozens of times on both ebay and Heritage without fail. Rich Halegua who runs a competing auction site gives similar testimony as do many others. I can not speak of Gixen as i have never tried them, but why would why when I have a completely free sniper that has never failed? -----Original Message----- From: William Scott [mailto:wscott19...@aol.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 12:31 AM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] Sniping I have been burned in the past by free sniping websites. Their servers are too unreliable and there's zero customer support. Gavelsnipe and Gixen immediately come to mind. Their both free and they both totally suck. ~WS -----Original Message----- From: Richard C Evans To: MoPo-L Sent: Sat, Oct 20, 2012 10:52 pm Subject: Re: [MOPO] Sniping Use BidTamer, have paid but at the moment using the free version. By paying fee snipe buffer can be reduced to 3 seconds, free version is minimum of 10 seconds. Also, with free version there's a limited number of snipes, think it's 3 a week. On 21 Oct 2012, at 03:39, JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia wrote: Hi to you all There are quite a few websites around that allow you to snipe on auctions. Some charge a fee and some don't. I used to use one that charged but have lately switched to another site that is totally free. Just wondering if any of you use sites that charge a fee for sniping and, if so, do they give you anything extra that the free sniping sites dont? Regards John JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA Website: www.moviemem.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/moviemem PO Box 92 Elanora Qld 4221 Australia Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. 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