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what is happening to all the auctions.
chumchum
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Looks like the number of auctions list has dropped by around 30% over the last few weeks??
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Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
How long can an item be relisted before it is banned?
I am not a seller so I wouldn't know. However I have some searches I do regular. Some of them have guns that have been listed for a long damn time. I never wrote down dates or anything but some of them have to be in excess of a year.
It's funny. I'll do a search and it will show 3-4 pages of listing. Some times a couple of them will have bid, the starting prices on the rest are ridicules. The guns started at a reasonable price and the penny auctions will have bids.
I'm not complaining, it's not my site and makes no difference to me. I just find it funny.
Plus there are the high priced items that roll over forever that no one will bid on because they are above retail another give me a break.
The items now on are for sale and rather than a reserve some may be over priced but at least they now have a limit of reruns.
Great move by GB on these new rules
"Fools learn from their own mistakes. I learn from the mistakes of others"
Otto von Bismarck
all I did was answer him and I got booted off for 7 years.
so, if you think im going to comment again, that's pure comedy.
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
Another's response was, it is mine and I can ask what I want. And 6 months later he was still asking, actually had increased his price.
Don't believe these items ever sold.
gb is in business to make money. kudos for them. what they decide to do is im sure, the result of years of inputs from keen business majors who studied the markets.
some lead some follow. its the owners choice.
the trend today is that true auctions are for the most part no longer exciting.
sellers don't want to take a loss on a low bid and buyers don't want to overpay.
pretty simple.
so what are both sides left with?
retail.
sellers set a price, buyers buy it or pass on it.
thus...why you see so many high prices and the practice of having a (store) with buy it now prices.
all fair in love and war.
the issue that deserves attention is....what made gb unique was the excitement of the bid.
there are numerous ways for sellers to feel out the market. one is the famous reserve price where they get to see what people are willing to pay and the long run auction, where sellers post an auction and wait for the market to 'catch up' to the asking price.
alls fair in love and war.
what I fear gb has done is...eliminated the option for sellers to feel out the market on long run auctions, by not allowing them to sit with free relists.
this in a sense is forcing sellers to list it at the exact price needed to make a profit and takes away the fun of bidding something up. and, if it doesn't sell.....off it goes. never to be seen again. gun shops that at least had a chance of selling something over time, will be more cluttered with things not selling, forcing markets to decline.
in a sense, gb is moving towards being a retail gun site.
granted, there are some folks who still do the start low and bid it up. and of course we know its because they most likely got the gun in dirt cheap and don't need to make a killing. (classic pawn shop scenario.)
but for little guys and ma/pa sellers clearing out there closets? its going to hurt.
and worst off....itll drive away gb sellers who will go to plain old gun sale websites, like the big ones already out there doing very well, that don't have all the red tape and fees and sliding scales assoc. with auctions.
and don't be fooled...a good majority of sellers here are on all those other websites too. its all about exposure. and if their exposure is reduced here...itll just pop up somewhere else. that is a negative outcome in business. youre not suppose to drive business away.
I learned a lot in Siberia.
itll be interesting to see how it plays out.
I wish gb well.
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
7 years ago a poster commented on how gb was starting to look like feebay.
all I did was answer him and I got booted off for 7 years.
so, if you think im going to comment again, that's pure comedy.
Why do you keep bringing this crap up?
7 years ago a poster commented on how gb was starting to look like feebay.
all I did was answer him and I got booted off for 7 years.
so, if you think im going to comment again, that's pure comedy.
Bob, I'm telling you for what is going to be the last time...leave it alone. Leaving it alone also includes your making "no comment" comments about Captain Fun. He's gone, you're here. Isn't that good enough? We didn't bring you back so that you could rag on about your being banned. You were told that you were on probation, and that was the truth.
nobody cares about my past. time has marched on.
so ok. no more. moving on.
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
if anyone has an idea on how to get a msg to a real person, lmk.
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
quote:Originally posted by bobski
7 years ago a poster commented on how gb was starting to look like feebay.
all I did was answer him and I got booted off for 7 years.
so, if you think im going to comment again, that's pure comedy.
Why do you keep bringing this crap up?
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