[Boatanchors] Is Somebody Nuts or Is It on My End?

[GRANT YOUNGMAN]

According to eBay’s current policy, you can send a Second Chance Offer to a bidder if the reserve price was not met.  They get a Buy It Now offer at their highest bid price.  Seems perfectly reasonable.  

Grant NQ5T


On Sep 1, 2014, at 8:23 PM, Ed via Boatanchors <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> we find reserves useful to control were it finally gets sold.
> keeps  things  out of hands of scrappers   and the  list  goes on. Dunno  
> if it still works
> but  was able to offer a sale in the old days  to the bidder of  choice....
> 
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> In a message dated 9/1/2014 6:13:42 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
> manualman at juno.com writes:
> 
> Setting  a reserve price, provides two advantages. What the current market
> will bear  for this combo and if the reserve is met or exceeded, allows
> the seller to  move six pieces at once rather then just one. If the
> reserve isn't met, the  next time around, seller can just roll the reserve
> back or sell them off  individuality.
>