wbblair
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posted on June 2, 2005 10:31:57 AM new
Any experiences to relate on whether or not paying the extra $0.40 is worth it for a 10-day rather than 7-day auction? I realize that it depends on the value of the item - it wouldn't make sense for a $0.99 item (unless the seller made his/her money with the POSTAGE) - but any general comments from experience? The _potentially_ advantage of doing this is to allow an auction started on a Thursday PM to be seen through TWO rather than just one weekend and to end on a high traffic Sunday evening.
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on June 2, 2005 10:58:32 AM new
I don't use 10 day often as I don't see that it helps very much.
I have done it with items that I am featuring and that seems to be the only time that it helps.
The only other time I use it is if the 7th day is a holiday or I'm going to be out of town myself.
That being said - I have notice that some seller only sell on 10 days.
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crowfarm
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posted on June 2, 2005 12:05:02 PM new
I don't believe it's worth the extra 40 cents...cheaper to just relist if it's not sold after 7 days.
I personally feel that unless it's something extra special I lose interest before the 10 days is up and think others do, too. Also it gives potential bidders too much time to find something else !
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sthoemke
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posted on June 2, 2005 01:24:19 PM new
Not worth it, except for the following reasons:
- it is an item of interest that people will put on their watch list (extra days of publicty on eBay Pulse)
- a Dutch auction (people might notice other people buying)
- a high value item (more time for bidding).
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cashinyourcloset
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posted on June 2, 2005 02:14:59 PM new
I only use it when I have listed using a starting bid higher than $1 (which I seem to be doing more of lately, Hmmmm). The $0.40 relative to the insertion fee isn't such a big deal.
Sometimes I have a sense that having the item appear over two weekends is a good idea, and then I do 10 day listings beginning on Thu, Fri, or Sat.
Claude
PS I think that sometimes 10 day listings do worse than 7 days; bidders get bored too 
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aintrichyet
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posted on June 2, 2005 03:04:05 PM new
I edited a big handful of our 7-day listings that I felt were 'important enough' when I saw they were going to end on Memorial Day in the middle of the day. LOL ... bumped 'em up to 10 days ...
It was worth it.
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getalife
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posted on June 2, 2005 07:23:44 PM new
I have always used 10 day auctions, started them on Thursday, and generally had good luck. One of the theories is the extra three days gives extra time for more bidders to find the item and get involved. I've also noticed that there is about a six day time period when the bidding almost comes to a complete standstill. I figure if you get one more bid on the item it easily pays the extra forty cents. My auctions are usually for items that close above twenty dollars.
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mikes4x4andtruckrepair
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posted on June 2, 2005 11:08:22 PM new
I think it's worth it on higher dollar items. I make sure that when I list the item that it get's two weekend's (list on friday). I have found that I get alot more bid's as many people do their searching on the weekend's and if they miss one they might see my listing the next weekend. .40 cents is cheap enough if it get's me 1 or 2 hundred dollars more for my item. I can't actually believe ebay has the fee set so low if you compare it to their other overpriced options. I better keep my mouth shut before they raise the fee
Mike
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wbblair
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posted on June 3, 2005 06:17:35 PM new
In order to judge the merit of posting on one day of the week vs another or the use of 7 or 10 day auctions without having to _manually_ track all of the relevant figures, it would be very handy for Vendio to automatically keep track of the number of watchers on ebay for each item vs. time and the number of views per day per item and then to present this info in a graph that could be accessed by the seller. I've suggested to Vendio that they implement these ideas, but they obviously haven't.
Sparedollar.com's "sdCounter" at least presents a graph of hits vs. day:
http://www.sparedollar.com/corp/prod_sdcounter.asp
If you'd like to see features like I've suggested implemented here at Vendio, email them. If enough people ask for this, _maybe_ they'll pay attention.
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stonecold613
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posted on June 3, 2005 09:21:34 PM new
Back in the early days of ebay when the 10 day listings were free, I used to always think that having the two weekends really was the thing to do. When Ebay started charging for 10 day listings, I quit using them. Turns out that 7 day was just as effective if not more effective. Fact is 80% of the bidding on items happen in the last 24 hours of the auction anyway. Most of the rest happen in the first 24 hours as many bidders search new listings to jump at deals. Otherwise your listing generally are so far back in the page count that the bidders have either found what they want already or have given up.
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Alive in 2005
[ edited by stonecold613 on Jun 4, 2005 10:13 PM ]
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