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Chris one thing I do know is that a high reserve that people can see will kill an auction!

The one thing that has been implemented by PayPal/EBay is this holding funds to the seller for up to thirty days if you haven't sold at least 100 items.
You sell an item and are expected to send it...

That's right they get caught up in the moment then don't pay when the price goes way high. EBay isn't the fun place it started out as.

Very true they were closer to a real auction. The big problem now is the competing sniping programs which I think reduces what an item will sell for. Good for the buyer bad for a seller.
As far as...

You know the buy it know option is something I like. Simple and straight forward but I think greed gets in there and some sellers think a bidding war will start and they can make a killing.

Chris

You can always use the contact seller option and see if the seller will tell you the reserve. Some will and some won't for some reason.
The idea behind not starting the auction with the...