[eBay] Start Trek fleet on eBay

Larry Enoch is cleaning out his garage.

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1628854046

Too bad he's got a reserve. I hate reserves.

Good luck to anyone else, though. I'm assuming anyone who snags this will be
unloading some parts.

> On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 19:42:21 -0500, devans@uneb.edu wrote:

> Too bad he's got a reserve. I hate reserves.

I hate reserves, too. I don't have any reserves on any of my auctions (mostly
just Supremacy and Traveller stuff this time out, though I do have some Ork
epic scale vehicles and 3 Eldar titans; nothing much GZG based right
now).

His stuff looks really good, but I think he'd probably have been better off
selling it in parts. On the other hand, its so much easier to sell it all at
once.

The problem is, a lot of people see "reserve" and just don't bid. You're
better off not putting in a reserve, just putting your reserve bid amount as
your minimum, and off you go. The current bid is, like, $204.52. If the
reserve was $210, that bidder could possibly go that high, but chances are
he's scared off now. *shrug* Just a matter of taste, I guess, but my auctions
are doing quite fine with no reserves.

> Allan Goodall wrote:

> he's scared off now. *shrug* Just a matter of taste, I guess, but my

I sometimes use reserves, but generally on things that I'm ambivalent about
selling. If it doesn't hit the reserve, then I can keep it and I'm not obliged
to sell it. One of the problems that I see with reserves is that few people
will tell you precisely what the reserve bid is. THAT bothers me, so when I
use them, I always tell right in the description what the reserve is.

> On Sun, 19 August 2001, Mark Reindl wrote:

> THAT bothers me, so when I use them, I

I was going to say, "Then why not just make the minimum bid equal to the
reserve bid" but I forgot that you get charged more from eBay for a high
initial bid than if you bid really low, put in a reserve, and then just told
everyone what the reserve is.