With an auction, I don't know the final price and usually I don't know the shipping cost either, because it's on another page and somewhat hidden. No need to compete with others.Īnd the simpler the buying experience the better. So when we see a price, we are willing to go for it. Now it is irrelevant because people have their own experiences of safe, successful online shopping. In 1995, FB was a way of gauging the trustworthiness of that stranger on the internet. Just as we are seeing less and less feedback every year. Why wait seven days to find out you lost?Īnother is growing trust in online shopping. In fact it is the first choice after the default Best Match. Notice that one Search is Time: Ending Soonest. I think what is killing auctions is Immediate Gratification. *notoriously the slowest and least decisive bidders Their purpose is to have buyers who understand what they bought and at what price.
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There are several different kinds of auctions, but the 'outcry' is the one that most people know.Īnd our auctioneers don't do any of the auctioneer's babble. The agent can drop out of bidding when any one is bought. Agents are also used for their expertise, giving their clients advice on which lots are worth going after, and helping with situations where for example the bidder might want one of three similar stamps, but will take any one. The auctioneer has the task of keeping the 'book' bid (the high bid from mail bidders) the floor bidding, the online bidding and still the occasional telephone bidder*, straight.Īnd some of the people on the floor will be agents, handling bids for others, perhaps just one wealthy bidder or perhaps half a dozen. Then while the auction is being called we have floor bidding from attendees and telephone bidding from bidders who can't attend.Īnd of course the new twist, live internet bidding.
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We take 'mail' bids- usually emailed these days, but also snail mail, faxed, and by hand, up to the opening of the auction. We already have opening bids on many of the 1400+ lots. Our current catalogue is up now, for a January 30-31 auction. Our own auction- Sparks- uses a mixture of both. Ricarmic is probably the expert on those. It is more like a mail auction- where the time of closing is announced in advance and at that time all the mail bids are opened, with the highest bidder winning. EBay is not an outcry auction- which is what you are probably most used to.