eBay: 7-Day auction any more lucrative than 5?

[jimbrady]

Any opinions? I'd rather not wait a week for the punchline, but if it's been proven to be 10 or 20% more lucrative, I could manage it.

Thanks in the present.

[The Grim Ninja]

If you have a desired sell price, just list the item Buy It Now (More accurately: Fixed Price Listing). Doesn't work for all categories, but it is my method of choice. That way your item can last anywhere from minutes to days, and frequently may sell much quicker than a standard auction.

It also relieves the doubt and worry about how much sniperage activity to expect.

[Chupa Chupa]

My M.O. is to set the auction for 3 days to get it closer to the top of the list. If there are no bids after 2 days I switch to a 5 day auction. At day 4 if there are no bids I go to a 7 day and let the clock run out.

[Ombligo]

I set it for three and usually expect most of the action in the last hour.

[Baby Tats]

Pick the auction length that will end your auction between 6 and 9 pm on Sunday. Also use lots of pictures and pay for the little picture that shows up when people search (gallery?). Use simple, well-designed html. These will increase your selling price more than anything else.

[MGS_forgot_password]

6-9PM in which time zone?

[space-time]

[quote MGS_forgot_password]6-9PM in which time zone?
All of them!

6 PM Pacific, 9 PM Eastern

[blusubaru]

The Sunday night method is a myth. If everyone ended their items on Sunday night there would be a flood of items and yours would be lost in the shuffle. Sunday night is not the night that people sit at home at their computers.

[ArtP]

[quote Baby Tats]Pick the auction length that will end your auction between 6 and 9 pm on Sunday. Also use lots of pictures and pay for the little picture that shows up when people search (gallery?). Use simple, well-designed html. These will increase your selling price more than anything else.
I usually have it end between 7 and 11pm Eastern on Sunday, the West Coast is 3 hours behind.

A friend recently suggested a Monday afternoon to catch people surfing at work. They are usually back after the weekend, got their week all planned out for WORK they have to do but little gets done on a Monday before closing time so they spend that last Hour or Two surfing until quitting time.

Sounds logical. Anybody with a Office Job do this?

EDIT: Read this after my post.

[quote blusubaru]The Sunday night method is a myth. If everyone ended their items on Sunday night there would be a flood of items and yours would be lost in the shuffle. Sunday night is not the night that people sit at home at their computers.
Sunday night used to be a high traffic night. Anyone have any data on when eBay's peak time is?

I've been thinking about doing Monday endings to catch all the people who missed similar items on Sunday. Maybe they will bid or watch my item if they miss one on Sunday and catch my item on Monday evening.

[ArtP]

Found this in google:

http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y199...bu0004/s05

but it is ANCIENT: December 19, 1999

When asked, none of the major auction sites that we spoke to found a significant difference in the amount of traffic through their sites on a day-to-day basis (although eBay said peak times on Monday through Friday were better than on weekends).

AuctionBytes.com decided to put the question to the sellers themselves. In a recent AuctionBytes.com poll, Sunday was chosen far and away as the most popular day to end an auction, with 41% of the votes cast. Saturday was a distant second with 18% and Monday came in third with 15%. In a follow-up poll, the favored time of day to end an auction was between 9pm and midnight (54% of the votes). 6pm to 9pm came in a very respectable second place with 42%. You can see all the voting results at http://www.auctionbytes.com.