Our Adria Coral 680SL for sale on Ebay.

[Pudsey Bear]

Always push, but not bad really, I said 20ish

 

[RichardHelen262]

Sounds like a decent offer as prices of motorhomes and caravans are falling

 

[Boris7]

Been offered £17500 and could push it to £18000.

Do I? Don't I? Can't decide, aaargghh.

Obviously you do

 

[merl]

Been offered £17500 and could push it to £18000.

Do I? Don't I? Can't decide, aaargghh.

Personally no. The guy has shown his hand, he'll be bidding 17500 at least. I reckon Kev's probably nearer the mark.
I sold a digger a few years back, I bought it for 3k after messaging the eBay seller with a cheeky offer. A year later I put it back on eBay auction and got offered 4.5k to end early which I considered TBF. Ended up at 7.5k, god knows why but the winner turned up, paid cash and left me great feedback. Go figure.

 

[izwozral]

Personally no. The guy has shown his hand, he'll be bidding 17500 at least. I reckon Kev's probably nearer the mark.
I sold a digger a few years back, I bought it for 3k after messaging the eBay seller with a cheeky offer. A year later I put it back on eBay auction and got offered 4.5k to end early which I considered TBF. Ended up at 7.5k, god knows why but the winner turned up, paid cash and left me great feedback. Go figure.

The way auctions work though it could mean the under bidder bids £15k the winner bids £20k but actually gets the mh for £15,100 because the price rises by incremental bidding.
Hence my indecisiveness.

Someone else is viewing today, if they like the mh that will be three people who are keen to buy.
Incidently, the first viewer was a very good looking young Italian guy who Izzy went all wobbly legs over!

 

[merl]

The way auctions work though it could mean the under bidder bids £15k the winner bids £20k but actually gets the mh for £15,100 b

Yep, but £15,100 is still more than 15k, you're getting huge traffic viewing the van, you only need 2 interested parties to push the price up.
The only advantages to ending early are you're reducing the chance of being messed around after the auction ends and you'll avoid the eBay fee.
Personally I feel the likelihood of achieving a higher amount outweigh these.
IF the winner doesn't show then you'll have a list of under bidders to contact.

 

[izwozral]

you only need 2 interested parties to push the price up.

So true, at our auction house, two people got into a bidding war over a Beswick pottery Cocker Spaniel, at the time it should have sold for £15-20 as estimated, however, auction fever took over these two individuals and they pushed the price to £110.
Daft thing was, we had two more Cockers in the next auction, both sold for £15.
Psychologically, your first bid claims ownership of the item, some scrote comes along and out bids you, how very dare they, so you bid again and so it goes on until common-sense prevails - or the wallet is empty! Called auction fever in the business.

If it was one of my rather fetching but badly stained mankini's for auction, I would probably accept the £17500 offer, no second thoughts on that score.

Wanna put a bid on the mankini, Merl? Go on, I know you want to.
Anybody?

 

[Pudsey Bear]

The thing is, you can never win an auction; you just pay more than anyone else thinks it's worth.