Postcardpiggy,

To use Cajun's words: "This is an auction, not a videogame". In an AUCTION, the value of an item is set by the price the buyers are willing to pay. When nobody wants to buy the item or pay the price the seller is asking, it should be removed from the auction or offered at reduced price.

I have items in my whatching list that are over 2 years old. I am interested but not willing to pay the price the seller is asking. I have tried to negotiate with him, but rather than lowering the price he prefers to keep the item himself but leaves the auction up "just in case".... This type of behaviour has no resemblance with an auction.


Regards,
Bjorn B

I think the anawer here would be for Delcampe to introduce a new search categorie....something like "New items, not been relisted".....That would keep everyone happy....newbie buyers who can still search through all the old listings and moaning old devils like me who are fed up of seeing the same auctuions

There is another postcard site I use (not THAT other one we all use) who have the same problem with these free re-lists and I have seen sellers ....good sellers leave or let their auctions run out because they fell into this false sense of security with these free relists and they just relisted it over and over again....their NEW stuff wasn't found because it was swamped down with the old stuff no one wanted.....sales dropped so they stopped using it

I really like Delcampe....it's a more friendly place than that other site....but things really do need to change otherwise I can see no future

There could be a solution if all the new auction are placed in online auction section and all relisted many times in a shop section automatically with fixed price and accepting offers.
All the buyers will get only fresh material if they are using the search engine.
Anything else will appear only at shop section.