1 Topic by scott_neon (edited by scott_neon 2009-03-04 23:07:10)

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Topic: Secret auctions challenge - identify em!!

This guy has some heavy weight auctions listed incognito- but can robots unmask these records?

Got a feeling these records can't be as rare a he's makin out!

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/discomputer_system/


I'm especially interested to find out the 1st 4 records he has listed.

  • Registered: 2008-07-07
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Re: Secret auctions challenge - identify em!!

doing secret auctions seems to be common these days: http://www.robotsforrobots.net/viewtopic.php?id=2453

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Re: Secret auctions challenge - identify em!!

Queen Of Blood wrote:

doing secret auctions seems to be common these days: http://www.robotsforrobots.net/viewtopic.php?id=2453

I'm sure the sellers think "why not?".  They have a bunch of good but common records, and by doing this, they probably get a whole lot more for the records than if they simply listed them normally.  I find it annoying, but I'd never bid on a "secret record auction".

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Re: Secret auctions challenge - identify em!!

@ waxHead
yeah, i thought so! especially by doing starting prices like this... i guess a lot of buyers think: oh, this one MUST be rare!

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Re: Secret auctions challenge - identify em!!

I don't understand the concept: You can bid on something "secret" so you don't really know what you bid on?

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Re: Secret auctions challenge - identify em!!

Squadra Smackos wrote:

I don't understand the concept: You can bid on something "secret" so you don't really know what you bid on?

The concept is easy to explain.

The buyer should get the "buy it now or never" feeling, what makes an auction a lot more interesting and expensive in the end.
If you ask these sellers to name the records they`ll say: Well you can bid on it if you really want it.

If the seller would show the records name, the most of the interested buyers would check how much the record is worth, and set an limit for paying it.

It

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