{"id":13122,"date":"2010-08-31T08:49:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T12:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/?p=13122"},"modified":"2010-08-31T08:49:46","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T12:49:46","slug":"chokehold-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/chokehold-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Chokehold Reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t like reserves. As a seller, they aren’t worth it. Putting up a reserve is extra money out of your pocket from the get go. Even if the reserve isn’t met, I think you still pay a fee. Not cool. Plus, rather than use a bogus reserve system, why not just list your tshirt at the lowest price you would have created a reserve for? It’s far more economical. I understand the psychology behind listing a tshirt with a low starting bid, but if there is a reserve in place, you negate that. People bump up against the reserve and just walk away. UNLESS, that is UNLESS the item being sold is an alien artifact<\/a>, a bulldozer<\/a> or a 1977 Led Zeppelin tour track suit<\/a>. Otherwise, reserves are just a waste.<\/p>\n

Consider this Chokehold shirt from xdrugfreepridex<\/a>. Great shirt, no doubt. But he starts with a $9.99 opening bid. Based on the condition of this shirt, that opening bid price almost seems like a pipe dream. The ink looks like it is eating itself from the outside in. Seriously. Then by throwing on a reserve, he’s pretty much scaring every buyer off. That’s my estimate. It’ll be interesting to watch this auction.<\/p>\n

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I don’t like reserves. As a seller, they aren’t worth it. Putting up a reserve is extra money out of your pocket from the get go. Even if the reserve isn’t met, I think you still pay a fee. Not cool. Plus, rather than use a bogus reserve system, why not just list your tshirt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[567,1892,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13124,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions\/13124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}