My quickest auction ever! What's your record?

[drewbrim]

I sold something on ebay today less than 14 minutes after I listed it, which I believe is my personal best.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8239855631

The funny thing to me is that it is hardly some rare game at an amazing price. Just looks like a case of right time, right place.


So, what's everyone elses fastest auction start to finish? I wouldn't normally know or think about it. But I listed this thing, hopped in the shower and came downstairs and it was sold. Crazy.

[drummy]

I think my quickest was 41 minutes. It was Christmas NiGHTS for the Saturn.

[SoulBlazer]

I think this thread has been done before.....

But I sold a top loader with a couple games on EBay about five minutes after I lsited it by BIN. :) $70.

[Nate Nanjo]

6 minutes, I put a Gameboy lot 45 games with a BIN of $130.

I go to put something else up, and when I went back to my summary, the Gameboy lot wasn't listed anymore, so I though it wasn't posted...then I saw that someone bought it.

[Griking]

The funny thing to me is that it is hardly some rare game at an amazing price. Just looks like a case of right time, right place.


If a B.I.N. sells in only a few minutes then your price was probably a lottle low.

In this case your auction was for a RPG that Gamestop and EBWorld still sell used for 44.99. I would have bought your game if I had come across it too.

[drewbrim]

The funny thing to me is that it is hardly some rare game at an amazing price. Just looks like a case of right time, right place.


If a B.I.N. sells in only a few minutes then your price was probably a lottle low.

In this case your auction was for a RPG that Gamestop and EBWorld still sell used for 44.99. I would have bought your game if I had come across it too.

It may have been a little low, by like a dollar or two. Most of the complete listings for used were around $30. I just prefer the quick sale as opposed to waiting a week or what not for an extra couple dollars. I just didn't expect it to be that quick.

[suppafly]

Someone I know sold a sealed castlevania 2 for $50 in less than 10 or 15 minutes!

[Mayhem]

Couple of hours here. Might be due to being in the UK of course, and I was listing on eBay.com instead.

Proper priced BIN and all, someone took it!

[Princess-Isabela]

one of the quickiest sales - probably Amiga CD-32 system, 4 minutes or something.
its good to know that they are still some of Amiga fans out there.
Amiga forever ^^

[Vroomfunkel]

Mine, on ebay UK, probably about 20 mins - last week, listed Tryrush Deppy for Saturn for £25 BIN.

Same as other post-er above, I went back to list something else, and it wan't there. Took me a moment or two to realise it was actually sold!

So yeah, perhaps should have listed higher price - but it was double what it cost me, so I've no regrets. Even if something sells quickly, there's no guarantee that someone would have taken it at a higher price ... and there's no point kicking yourself over selling something for a price that you were obvlously happy to get for something.

Vroomfunkel

[anagrama]

Under 10 minutes when I underpriced the BIN on a complete Turok 3 for the N64.

[evil_genius]

45 minutes, it was a Sega Genesis lot. System and a few games for $40 or something, I was shocked.

[Sniderman]

My fastest was just a matter of 2 minutes or so. Posted one of my game clocks on Ebay. And, while posting another, my e-mail "bings" and lets me know someone had just purchased it. Had to have been less than 2 minutes. Paid immediately too.

[geekcomputing]

3 min.... put on a broken graphics card.

sold for 8 bucks.

[drewbrim]

A new personal best :-P

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5664468615

[jeffg]

I had Romox II for the TI-99 I put on for $50 Buy it now

It is an R8 and did that last summer and it sold in about 2 1/2 minutes.

I went to the bathroom and came back and sold and paid for by the time it took to use the restroom

[sirhansirhan]

When I found out that Phoenix Wright was in high demand on eBay, I put a few of my leftover sealed copies on eBay with Buy It Nows of $45 a piece. One sold in six minutes, another sold in 54 minutes, and the rest of them (I had four or five total) sold almost as fast. It was nuts. But yeah, as far as I remember that six minute mark was the fastest anything of mine has ever sold.

[Michiganfan2]

16 minutes

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8257637032&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESO%3AIT&rd=1