eBay Auction beginning and Ending Day Strategies
It’s usually when auctions are going to finish that they get half their bids – occasionally they even get their only bids. If you require your item to sell for a good price, then, it makes no sense to let it end on a day and time when no-one’s going to be around to care.
Selling to Businesses.
If you’re selling business gear and have mostly business clients, you should really aspire to have your auctions ending between 9am and 5pm on weekdays. It’s worth, however, trying to stay away from mornings and avoid the ‘lead-in’ and ‘lead-out’ that happens on Monday and Friday themselves.
Selling to Homes.
If most of your sales are to private clients having it shipped to their own home, then you want your auctions to close when these kinds of buyers will be around. Unfortunately, these times are the reverse of what they’re for the business customers. The best time to catch a home buyer is on a Sunday evening.
List for Durations.
In order to get your eBay listings to end on a certain day, you just need to simply change the length of your auctions contingent on what day it is. For instance, if you generally sell to home customers and the day today is Thursday, then your auction needs to run for either 3 or 10 days to hit a Sunday. If you sell more to business and the day today is Friday, then:
a 1 day auction would not be good (ending on Saturday),
3 days would be okay (Monday),
5 days would be good (Wednesday),
7 days would be good (another Friday),
and 10 days would be okay (Monday again).
You could come up with a timetable showing when you should and should not be listing hinging upon the days of the week. Make it red, yellow and green, following the colors of a traffic light, and then stick the timetable on your wall.
Schedule Listings.
Naturally, if that all sounds like too much trouble then there’s an easier, but probably more expensive, way of doing things. Merely use any of the numerous tools that let you schedule auction listings, which almost all listing programs and sites do. You can set the commence date for any day and time you want.
Understand that you might have to pay a tad bit more per listing for this if you do it through eBay. With some software, you might also need to leave your computer running at all times, so the software can start the auctions at the appropriate time. The advantage of this technique, however, is that there will be no per-listing charge, since the auctions were scheduled through your computer and not through eBay.
If you would like to learn how to sell on eBay then check out this website:
http://www.BeginnersAuctionGuide.com
God bless,
Clint
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