Re: Ebay "buy it now"

Champ wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:52:15 +0000, Lee <"mexz32 at yahoo dot co dot
uk"> wrote:


<ebay BIN>

It most definitely *has* always been like that.

There would be no point in having an auction at all if someone could then just buy it at the BIN price once the auction price exceeded the BIN.

Well, obviously no one would bid *above* the BIN price, would they,
YTC. They'd just click "BIN"

Oh really? I have seen (and bought) stuff where people were bidding higher than the BIN on an identical item from the same seller. I chose the BIN.


But there's plenty of point in having as BIN price that is available
while the auction is being bid on, I would have thought.

Yes, but ebay want you to pay for a reserve before that happens. Much of what ebay does is driven by revenue generation rather than customer convenience.
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