Ebay Bidding

I ask myself the same exact thing once in a while, I see that some items have a fixed price and you can just buy them automatically and others have to go through the bidding process. Persoanlly I have bought things through eBay, but mostly have been items to purchase right away, I don't trust the bidding ones. Maybe its just me.

The auction format can be very addicting and competitive and may allow for the price of the item to be higher that what you were expecting, you can make more money using the auction format.

Very often you don't know in advance what sort of price the items you're selling will fetch. If you pitch it too low, you're doing yourself out of a decent profit. Pitch it too high and it won't sell at all, and you've had to pay a listing fee, so you're out of pocket. Also you don't have to pay an initial listing fee for an auction listing starting at 99p (in the UK, where I live), so if you're selling low value items you might as well do that. That way there's no risk.

All of the above make sense. I'll just add one more reason: putting a fixed price on an item increases the listing cost. It's cheaper to list everything on auction.

because they want to sell them instantly. But they can't not. They looking for chance to sell them with higher price :d

I use ebay! I always buy things off there. As ebay is pretty popular, sellers tend to put their stuff on there as there is a higher chance of a buyer. Even people at home can sell off anything secondhand that they don't want anymore. I've seen some secondhand shoes or clothing been sold there for really high prices and some people go crazy with the bidding! They tend to be placed as an auction and placed at a low starting bid as it attracts more bidders. Usually, the items with the buy it now option tend to have no buyers due to high cost plus the shipping too. Some actual stores can't sell off some old stock hanging around the in the storage room and sometimes holding stock costs money so they try to sell it off on ebay. They can sell new items that has been lying around on an auction on ebay and there will be bidders going for them and sellers love it when the bidders fight over the item and the price just keeps going up and up. Putting a price on it may make it less attractive to buyers and also more customers can see it online.

Not an extra, they may want to make extra money, and they can live without these extra stocks, so why not put on ebay to sell them? That is one way to make money, not to gain profit, at least find a market to sell them better than on the flea market. So, this might work. I tried to sell my stuff on ebay too, but not much success from it.

Often it is stuff that they do not need and want to make some money off of it. Other times, it is stuff that they bought to re-sell on ebay at a profit. Sellers sometimes make a living re-selling on ebay. As for auctioning off an item, sometimes you do better that way. Some items do not sell if you just put a price on it. Or some items sell better if you put a low price on it and auction it. The bidding can sometimes bring in more money than what you thought you could get for it.

This is because by bidding they may earn more money than just putting a fixed price.