Pre-Emptive Question but Any Cheap Shite for Sale?

[Negative Creep]

Ive been contacted by the seller of that domino i had my eye on as apparently the winning bidder never turned up. Theres also a 51 plate suzuki alto just up the road from me for £600 and either would be ideal. Still cant do a thing until the mr2 sells, presuming it meets reserve and the winning bidder turns up

[Gompo]

Did you have a 'buy-it-now' price? Have personally found this usually means sod all interest unless exceptionally cheap. I reckon it's the buying mentality on that internet auction site where people like to think they might land a bargain and thus get excited about the bidding. They seem to see classified/b-i-n prices as a waste of time because there is Autotrader and local papers for fixed prices. I don't say I agree with that mentality by the way, just an observation. Anyway Ii's mad really because there's a fair chance someone would actually bid over your b-i-n price.

 

Fwiw I find a low (or better still random) starting price and suggesting you have a low reserve usually gets things going nicely. Best of all is a low start and no reserve but there's always the chance of it ending at some crap price. Oh, the FCF might be worth a try too, you're preaching to the converted on there and someone may well want a small cheap car for their kids or to knock about in.

 

This happened with a CD I was watching on Ebay. It was up for £125 or best offer (the highest I've seen it sell for in the past was £110), 5 offers were made on it - highest being £100 and not accepted..

 

CD was relisted, with a starting price of 99p, it sold yesterday for £235 (6 differet bidders apparently)! Obviously the auction may fall through or be dodgy but if the seller only wanted £125 I cant imagine shilling upto £235?

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0749763393

 

Then:

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0750158554

 

..Not a car obviously, but you could buy Boll's Cav for less!