Online Auction win!
I recently found an online auction site I’d not seen before - jobalots.com, it receives customer returns from some of the large online retailers, they are then offered as an auction item at considerably lower prices, many starting at £0.20.
I’d browsed the site a few times without spotting anything of interest, a few days ago I spotted an autocue bluetooth remote, it had a start price of £1.00, the normal Amazon retail was £23.38 so I thought it was worth a bid.
I’d browsed the site a few times without spotting anything of interest, a few days ago I spotted an autocue bluetooth remote, it had a start price of £1.00, the normal Amazon retail was £23.38 so I thought it was worth a bid.
I’m surprised how many people still don’t quite understand how to bid on most online auction sites, at a normal auction you’d bid in ascending increments and many people apply this approach to online auctions. The correct method for online auctions is to decide the maximum price you want to pay for the item and enter that as a bid, the site will then automatically ‘bid’ for you in increments until your maximum bid is reached, similar to the way an auctioneer bids for you with ‘book’ or 'with me' bids.
I’d decided my max bid would be £3.50, VAT and £4.99 P&P would be added to the winning bid. Someone had bid £1.20 and the site automatically incremented my bid to £2.20, no other bids arrived so, although I bid a max of £3.50, I actually won the item for £2.20, with VAT and courier delivery it came to £8.63 for an £23.00 item.
Now, there was a chance the item was broken or faulty......when it arrived I put 2 AAA batteries in and opened the autocue app (iCue) on my iPad, the remote had a light on to indicate it was working but virtually none of the buttons worked, in the autocue app I selected keyboard remote and was then able to ‘remap’ the buttons. The remote now works as it should and will make operation of the autocue for the talent, a lot easier to use.
I’d decided my max bid would be £3.50, VAT and £4.99 P&P would be added to the winning bid. Someone had bid £1.20 and the site automatically incremented my bid to £2.20, no other bids arrived so, although I bid a max of £3.50, I actually won the item for £2.20, with VAT and courier delivery it came to £8.63 for an £23.00 item.
Now, there was a chance the item was broken or faulty......when it arrived I put 2 AAA batteries in and opened the autocue app (iCue) on my iPad, the remote had a light on to indicate it was working but virtually none of the buttons worked, in the autocue app I selected keyboard remote and was then able to ‘remap’ the buttons. The remote now works as it should and will make operation of the autocue for the talent, a lot easier to use.
