Am I a dick?

[bob]

eBay watchers sometimes piss me off.
In the past, I have ended auctions early when there is 24 hours left when if are no bids, but a bunch of "watchers" lurking out there.
I don't know why they get under my skin, but they do. And it doesn't seem to be all the time, it generally depends on what I am selling at the moment.

Anyway, if I do this...am I a dick?

(cue the obligatory, one word posts, "Yes")

[Keranu]

Yes...

you are.

(j/k)

[Samurai Ghost]

Well it seems that on eBay people tend to bid at the last minute, so I usually don't end up bidding until at least an hour before the auction end, even if I know it's something I want. So if you are trying to sell something it's probably in your best interest to keep it up until its over, especially if you have a lot of people watching it. I've seen auctions for game stuff jump $200 in a matter of seconds as an auction is ending.

[bob]

Well it seems that on eBay people tend to bid at the last minute, so I usually don't end up bidding until at least an hour before the auction end, even if I know it's something I want. So if you are trying to sell something it's probably in your best interest to keep it up until its over, especially if you have a lot of people watching it. I've seen auctions for game stuff jump $200 in a matter of seconds as an auction is ending.

And I fully get that, but for gods sake, SOMEBODY put a bid in!

[roflmao]

A lot of times my watch list is filled up with stuff I have no intention of bidding on.  I just want to see what something ends up selling for (or not selling for).  I would assume I'm not the only one who watches stuff with no intention of bidding, so whenever I list something on ebay, I take the number of watchers with a grain of salt.  It's not uncommon for something to sit until the final 24 hours without any bids, and then have them all come in in the last couple of hours.

When you close an auction early, do you still have to pay fees to ebay?

[nectarsis]

Maybe not a dick, but def WAY to impatient.

[Necromancer]

A lot of times my watch list is fill up with stuff I have no intention of bidding on.  I just want to see what something ends up selling for (or not selling for).

I do that too.  Sometimes I'm just curious to see where it'll end or want to link someone to the auction later.

[bob]

A lot of times my watch list is fill up with stuff I have no intention of bidding on.  I just want to see what something ends up selling for (or not selling for).  I would assume I'm not the only one who watches stuff with no intention of bidding, so whenever I list something on ebay, I take the number of watchers with a grain of salt.  It's not uncommon for something to sit until the final 24 hours without any bits, and then have them all come in in the last couple of hours.

When you close an auction early, do you still have to pay fees to ebay?

No, I get 500 free listings a month

[PunkicCyborg]

If you keep ending your auction and relisting it people will get suspicious as well so it might not be the best practice if it's an uncommon item.

[bob]

What if I put a warning in the auction listing?

[turbokon]

I feel you especially when I bidded and thinking I'm going to win and in the last few seconds, someone comes in and out bid me and I don't have time to react. That just pisses me off.

[Samurai Ghost]

I feel you especially when I bidded and thinking I'm going to win and in the last few seconds, someone comes in and out bid me and I don't have time to react. That just pisses me off.

Well what I do is put in the max I'm willing to pay for the item sometime before it ends. If I get outbid, so be it. But a lot of times I get the item for less than what I was willing to pay.

[kazekirifx]

I usually wait till the last minute to bid. Maybe I shouldn't do that. It has gotten me in trouble plenty of times.

[Tatsujin]

Am I a dick?

are you one? 

[ApolloBoy]

I certainly wouldn't do that, I sold a few things on eBay within the past week and I got the most bids within the last couple of minutes as opposed to the last day.