[Silly]

Just another way to make eBay fun, fun, fun!

[JoeSixPack1]

With ``Buy it Now,'' sellers can list an item at a set price, and the sale ends if someone offers to pay that price. If someone enters a bid below that price, the ``Buy It Now'' option is canceled, and the sale turns into a regular auction.

As usual NYT & AP give you half truths. I guess they never heard of the buy-it-now, reserved-price auctions.

[dpwiener]

How is this different than setting a "Buy It Now" price one penny higher than the starting bid price?

[Blue Screen of Death]

The next logical step is a catagory for congressmen. Buy him/her now. Yes, power to the people. We could auction congress critters on e-bay. How cool, you could see how much your congressman is going for. I mean, like, how would you like to see your congressman bought for $2,500 while someone elses gongressman goes for two or three times that much. Insulting. Well, you could get in there and jack up the bid so that you did not have to live with the shame of having a cheap congressman. Every American is entitled to have the most congressman that the open market can buy.

[monkeyshine]

It's about time.

[Paulus Invictus]

eBay lost big credibility with me when they went PC, hired too many MBAs and lost the genius behind the software that made it all happen--Skippy. May he rest easy in eternal wealth and mega air miles!

[Bogey78O]

I love ebay.

I go on it and find old car parts all the time.

There was a guy selling rebuilt starters that aren't even made anymore for 50$. I snatched up 2 of them. Another guy sold a heater from a early 50s Chevy truck for 80$ in working rebuilt condition.

[Jhoffa_]

Sounds like a short listing....

[goodieD]

Ebay already offers that type of sale on Half.com. I love Half!~ No waiting, no worrying about getting outbid at the last second. And I can get all my favorite books really really cheaply!~

[American Preservative]

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[BJungNan]

I bought my car on ebay. Great deal. Great price. But word of advise...take a trip to look at the car. I looked at several that were on ebay and after checking the descriptions to the actual product, only a few were really as stated. When I finally settled in on the one I wanted, the auction was a great way to get the price I could afford and the car I wanted.

[freekitty]

That kind of defeats the purpose of E-Bay, doesn't it?

[Steve0113]

ping for the Queen of E-bay.

[andysandmikesmom]

I love ebay....I am a dedicated doll collector....I get the best deals ever on ebay...just last week, I received two new mint dolls, that I know cost $150 apiece...I got one doll for $25 and the other one for $15....what a deal...

Certain brands of dolls, like Madame Alexander, that are sold at stores, gift shops and museums, mark those dolls up big time...by buying them from vendors at ebay, I can save big bucks, because those vendors dont have such a big markup, and yet the dolls are brand new and mint...I have bought almost no dolls anyplace except ebay....by shopping on ebay, I can have more dolls, than if I was paying retail...

I have also bought brand new material for sewing, mint new teddy bears, got my husband a wonderful wolf ring, got numerous basset hound collectibles...

It is true as one poster formerly said, having ebay, is like going to a huge yard sale, without having to leave home...

I like the different options offered...I have often used the 'buy it now' option, because often the buy it now price is just about the same as the original price asked....if its an item I really want, I will even go a few dollars higher, if that is what the buy it now price is...sometimes I am willing to pay those extra few dollars, rather than lose the item...other times, I enjoy the flurry of the last minute auctioneering....

Any new options want to install are fine with me...

[montag813]

eBay and Amazon are two reasons why we will enter a global depression which will last for nearly 10 years. Many people I know buy no new items, only those on eBay, uBid or Amazon, used or bought out of bankruptcy. There are apparently sellers on eBay who have larger inventories of certain company's products (particularly hi-tech) than do the companies themselves, due to recent inventory reductions. This will make for a much more efficient economy, but will drastically decrease traditonal employment and, due to sales tax non-reporting, massively strain already deficient state tax revenues.

The S&P 500 Index will be at 600 by Christmas and 450 by next Easter, and the Dow will stay below 10000 for perhaps the next 10-12 years.