Withdrawals

Gee, I'm glad I'm not the only one in the eBay doldrums, Bartelby. I figured out why, though: we're watching eBay's summer reruns.

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Originally posted by Steve:
Gee, I'm glad I'm not the only one in the eBay doldrums, Bartelby. I figured out why, though: we're watching eBay's summer reruns.

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LOL

Sellers generally list less items, and probably less desirable items in the slow summer months.

Maybe the slow summer months are caused by these sellers thinking summers are slow and thus listing less and they're the whole cause

If you're still at a loss for what to bid on then I can probably come up with quite a list of things I could use

Sara B. writes, "If you're still at a loss for what to bid on then I can probably come up with quite a list of things I could use."

Oh, by all means. Then I can turn around and sell them to you at a tidy profit, right???

I see a slow down on bidding, which I just love. I'm getting some great antiques at v ery affordable prices! Thank god for summer lol.

Hmmmm, your theories dont really count for me *down under* though, being winter and all.

Actually as a seller things have slowed a little down here too, I think I have just been spoilt recently.

I am sure if I look hard enough I will find something I dont really need but cant help buying coz its a *bargin*

lots of reasons your bidding might have slowed. but here's an idea, and it's actually not easy to do given what creatures of habit we are: try new, but not totally different, categories. often ebay seems to offer us only the chance to buy things that fall within our obvious preferences, but if you think of it as more of a store (whatever your favorite kind of store is) and imagine yourself wandering around and sort of stumbling on interesting things, then you might make discoveries. one way to do this is the classic slight change of name in the search space - add an "s", list "bronze" instead of "brass", try "deco" instead of just "glass", whatever. all this may be obvious but there it is.

allen

I think the real reason for the eBay slow down (which seems to have started long before summer) is the ECONOMY ____. (I'll leave off the rest of that famous political line). I stopped listing items in the spring when I noticed that items were selling way too cheap or not at all.
But I really like this buyers market!