Trade me, have they just given up?

**neels** · 16th June 2025, 18:59

Originally Posted by nerrrd

Yeah well I don’t do reserves, so the starting bid is my minimum. If nobody bids, I might as well give it away.

It’s an auction site after all, innit.

Searching cars can be a pain in the arse with the starting bid of $1000, and a buy now price of $18000. As you've said, start=reserve at the minimum you'll take, and hope you have a good day and do better than that.

**jellywrestler** · 16th June 2025, 19:06

Originally Posted by nerrrd

It’s an auction site after all, innit.

not really, they charge you for a reserve so it's discouraged, if you go into motorcycle parts there's about 460000 parts there, and 60 parts with bids on them
one in 7600 parts.

**Laava** · 16th June 2025, 19:15

It was free general listings yesterday, and the catch is that anything you sell gets paid thru Ping at your cost (2.19%) and you have no choice on that. Not sure if it was for fixed price or auction only or both…

**jellywrestler** · 16th June 2025, 20:03

Originally Posted by Laava

It was free general listings yesterday, and the catch is that anything you sell gets paid thru Ping at your cost (2.19%) and you have no choice on that.

eh? there was choice, either don't list or list on a different day.
it wasn't for everyone either, we have four accounts, it wasn't offered to all of them

**Laava** · 16th June 2025, 21:20

Originally Posted by jellywrestler

eh? there was choice, either don't list or list on a different day.
it wasn't for everyone either, we have four accounts, it wasn't offered to all of them

Ok so what I meant was, the free listing only, had no choice re the Ping. It hasn't been like that previously. It was not a moan, just pointing it out. As in, it is not entirely free.

**jellywrestler** · 16th June 2025, 21:54

Originally Posted by Laava

Ok so what I meant was, the free listing only, had no choice re the Ping. It hasn't been like that previously. It was not a moan, just pointing it out. As in, it is not entirely free.

so talking to the mrs you could opt out of the ping thing but then you paid fees, fair marketing strategy to me, got us thinking.