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Offline Rasputin

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Adding a chat link to auctions
« on: October 26, 2015, 18:44:21 »
Over the years I have been buying a lot of playmo on auction. It is one of the main ways I add to our collection. I typically really like "huge lot" type of listings. One thing that I have always wanted though is a way to communicate with other buyers or prospective buyers.

I always wanted a chat group to go with an auction.

A person could post their opinions, observations, experiences, and any other info they see fit.

I think it would allow customers to talk to each other...good bad and ugly
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Re: Adding a chat link to auctions
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2015, 21:05:35 »
Do Playmobil run auctions?   ???
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Re: Adding a chat link to auctions
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2015, 07:37:53 »
I think Rasputin is referring to eBay auctions (and similar?).

I like best the auctions which no-one else seems to have noticed. I don't really want to talk to fellow bidders. I'm even a bit careful about the 'Ask the seller a question' option, because the seller can post the question and their answer (I sometimes offer to arrange a courier when a seller wants 'Collection in Person' only. I don't want to give the idea to other potential buyers!.) Yes eBay seems very impersonal and anonymous at times, but it exists for people to make money and other people to get bargains, if possible. There is an element of competition between bidders, inevitably.

I am more than happy to discuss eBay tactics in general in a forum like this one, to help other people increase their chances of finding things they want and winning them; things like sniping tools, offering courier collection, search sophistications, etc.

Perhaps I misunderstood what you meant, Rasputin?
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Re: Adding a chat link to auctions
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2015, 07:46:50 »
Quote from: GrahamB on October 27, 2015, 07:37:53
I think Rasputin is referring to eBay auctions (and similar?).


Yes, that was what I would have expected apart from the topic it's in.
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Re: Adding a chat link to auctions
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2015, 07:54:18 »
The only advantage I could see would be if potential bidders agreed to share a lot. Not only could you split a larger lot with someone who wanted stuff you didn't, you could avoid bidding against each other and thereby win the auction at a lower bid.
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Re: Adding a chat link to auctions
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2016, 04:47:50 »
That's exactly why ebay doesn't allow intrabidder communication: it makes collusion much easier, and collusion means that sale prices go down. It's in ebay's interest to keep sale prices as high as possible.
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