{"id":30,"date":"2003-02-19T13:01:18","date_gmt":"2003-02-19T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2003-02-19T13:01:18","modified_gmt":"2003-02-19T19:01:18","slug":"online-auctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Online Auctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I summoned all the courage that I had and ventured (albeit rather timidly) into the world of online auctions.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve never even bought anything from an auction before but a couple of my friends, namely Sarah (experienced buyer) and Lindsey (experienced seller), practically live on eBay<\/font><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Lindsey has only positive things to say: mostly how it has improved her cashflow and such.\u00c2\u00a0 Sarah, who represents the other side, has experienced both ups and downs.\u00c2\u00a0 You get good deals and you get ripped off too.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a fact of auctioning life that buyers just have to accept.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say, I know enough to proceed with caution.\u00c2\u00a0 Right now I’m making baby steps. While I know that it may take years before I start bidding on stuff online, I recently posted my very first auction<\/font><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I figured that less risk is associated with selling.\u00c2\u00a0 I minimized the risk even more by reviewing and comparing almost every detail of eBay<\/font><\/a> auctions versus Yahoo!<\/font><\/a> auctions (mostly comparing the fees) until I finally decided to start with the latter.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t think there is as much action on Yahoo!<\/font><\/a> than eBay<\/font><\/a> but, then again, I’ve got very limited experience in this area.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, I figured if I have a good experience with my first auction I may just sell everything in our house (I’m exaggerating, of course). Lindsey tells me that whenever she gets bored or is broke she just goes through her closet and starts listing stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 From what she tells me, the revenue it generates is pretty good.\u00c2\u00a0 My cash flow (or lack thereof) needs all the help it can get right about now so I went ahead and gave it a try.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, I’m super-eager and I just have to check my (one and only) auction every single day.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, everytime I check my auction my enthusiasm is constantly met by disappointment because I’ve only got six days to go and I still have no bids! Sarah tells me that it’s normal.\u00c2\u00a0 She says that people usually don’t bid until the auction is almost over but you know what– I don’t think I have any page views either!\u00c2\u00a0 I feel like crying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I summoned all the courage that I had and ventured (albeit rather timidly) into the world of online auctions.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve never even bought anything from an auction before but a couple of my friends, namely Sarah (experienced buyer) and Lindsey (experienced seller), practically live on eBay.\u00c2\u00a0 Lindsey has only positive things to say: mostly how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}