Originally Posted by
gazlannathai
Hi and welcome
Too many sellers on here use Buy Now pricing (because it's fee to use) and that instantly closes each auction that gets a Buy Now bid - thus only the true AUCTION sellers will have listings showing bids.
Unfortunately this also rubs off on the buyers as they start ignoring auctions without a Buy Now price.
Probably best to think of eBid as a classified adverts site with attached forums pretending to be an auction site.
I have long maintained that only auction-only listings should be free and that Buy Now is an option that should have a nominal charge - even if it's only one penny.
Visible bids attract more bids, and the over-use of Buy Now is suppressing activity on the site, as well as hiding the real activity levels.