Can't believe this is a featured auction

How the heck does e-bay choose the auctions that appear on the top of the page?
The are so called "featured". I assume by e-bay. Is that correct?
Look at this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=46 685


Looks like some kinda pyramid thing to me.
John N

JOPN wrote:
How the heck does e-bay choose the auctions that appear on the top of
the page? The are so called "featured". I assume by e-bay. Is that
correct?

I doubt it. Without looking it up, I am willing to bet that Featured just
means someone payed an extra fee to have it featured.


Look at this one:


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=46 685


Looks like some kinda pyramid thing to me.

I didn't go to the site to read about it but I thought advertising links in
an auction was against Ebay rules?

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On 17 Jan 2004 19:06:32 GMT, JOPN wrote:

How the heck does e-bay choose the auctions that appear on the top of
the page?
The are so called "featured". I assume by e-bay. Is that correct?
Look at this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=46 685


Looks like some kinda pyramid thing to me.
John N

Free, hehe. Nothing on Ebay is free. A featured auction is soemthing you
pay for. I never do but I think the category featured is approachin $100.

Featured means that the seller paid an additional $20 to have the item
listed as such. E-bay claims that on average, featured items sell for 18%
more. This claim may be true, but remember, this is for all E-bay auctions,
not Coins alone.

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"JOPN" wrote in message
...
How the heck does e-bay choose the auctions that appear on the top of the
page?
The are so called "featured". I assume by e-bay. Is that correct?
Look at this one:


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tegory=46 685


Looks like some kinda pyramid thing to me.
John N

"Aladdin Sane" wrote in message
news:EAgOb.74301$sv6.163979@attbi_s52...
E-bay claims that on average, featured items sell for 18%
more. This claim may be true, but remember, this is for all E-bay
auctions,
not Coins alone.

I've seen this claim, too, and I have to wonder about the cause-and-effect
relationship. In other words, do people feature stuff that happens to really
be worth more, or would selling identical items--one feature, one
not--result in the 18% on average?

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In article EAgOb.74301$sv6.163979@attbi_s52, "Aladdin Sane"
writes:

Featured means that the seller paid an additional $20 to have the item
listed as such. E-bay claims that on average, featured items sell for 18%
more. This claim may be true, but remember, this is for all E-bay auctions,
not Coins alone.

I pay the fee to have one of my regular auctions "featured" and it regularly
gets from 3 to 50 times more "hits" than the unfeatured ones. Dunno whether
this translates to bids or $$, but I'm almost always happy with the results...

Obviously this won't work on low value auctions, but for my purposes, I'm sure
I'm recovering the fee & more by running them that way. I occasionally try the
identical auction without the fee and the numbers drop off dramatically.

Dondi3

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DONDI3 wrote:
In article EAgOb.74301$sv6.163979@attbi_s52, "Aladdin Sane"
writes:


Featured means that the seller paid an additional $20 to have the item
listed as such. E-bay claims that on average, featured items sell for 18%
more. This claim may be true, but remember, this is for all E-bay auctions,
not Coins alone.


I pay the fee to have one of my regular auctions "featured" and it regularly
gets from 3 to 50 times more "hits" than the unfeatured ones. Dunno whether
this translates to bids or $$, but I'm almost always happy with the results...

Obviously this won't work on low value auctions, but for my purposes, I'm sure
I'm recovering the fee & more by running them that way. I occasionally try the
identical auction without the fee and the numbers drop off dramatically.

Dondi3

Dondi3
DONDI enterprises. BUY, SELL, TRADE. RARE COINS & PRECIOUS METALS
Member COINNET, CSNS, ANA, INA, MOON, ILNA.

what would be interesting is to run the same Item one featured and one not. Of course
getting 2 pieces that are identical with enough markup to absorb the fee might be a problem.

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Sometime I run a featured auction on an item not expensive enough to warrant
it...hoping
people will click on my link to my other items.

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