Re: Bid alerts?


Rainer Bauer wrote:
> Dhakala wrote:
>
> >Rainer Bauer wrote:
> >> itemyar wrote:
> >>
> >> >Is there a way to get an alert sent to you via email when someone places a
> >> >bid on an item you have up for auction?
> >>
> >> I have seen this question now several times. What really interests me is why
> >> would you want to know that?
> >
> >Because the rent is due and your crap isn't selling.
>
> Huh?

Not your software, the seller's crap. :-) People get anxious when they
need money desperately.

>
> >Because you gotta cancel those zero-feedback bidders right away.
> >Because you told foreign bidders to email you for shipping costs.
>
> There is no need to do that the next minute they placed their bid.
>
> Any _real_ reasons?

Reasons to buy don't have to make sense to the seller.

Put the feature in Munnin and you can claim to be the only one that
offers it. That's product differentiation, and it sells products
whether it makes sense to you or not.

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