Ebay - What time and day do visitors peak

I always find having items expire around 6pm on sundays gives the best prices on auctions.

Roughly the same. Weekdays I usually finish items between 4.30pm and 8pm. Saturday I don't much bother with, but if I had to it would be around noon.

Sunday finishes (which are the best!) any time between 4pm and 10pm.

I also get freaky trends. I'll sell a load of one product at one time and then not for ages.

Regards best times. I would say just avoid finishing at commuting times and lunch times. And of course, in the middle of the night...although you might get a couple of drunks who'll bid through the roof. If they pay up when they get sober will be another thing.

Hi David,

Rather than concentrating on the total number of visitors to Ebay, you should look at how your target customers buy, are they more likley to buy when they are in the office at lunch time, on Saturday evening before they go out, early evening when they get home to work. You need to know when your customers are more likley to be shoping, Did I read that you sell handbags?? I'll bet they will sell at a different time than the warehouse shelving I just bought.

Basically - Know your customer.

Good Luck

Jim

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Hi David,

When I was starting my business I got onto a free course that had a few consultants doing mentoring on it. One of them recomended that I try to figure out who my customers would be and do everything I could to place my product in a way which would appeal to them. He recomended that I do a brainstorming session, talk to potential clients, do market research, run surveys etc, all to find out what the client wants, and when, how fast, what price etc etc. He told me there was two types of research live (face to face) and desk(newspapers, internet, library etc).

I don't know a lot about handbags but the priciples will be the same as for most other products. I would first of all look at my current online sales, see if there is any trends, I'd look at offline trends if there is any. Check what your competitors are doing, on ebay its pretty easy to see how well they are doing, use a site like goofbay dot com to help with that. If you can identify information that you need there are survey sites that you can use to gather the answers, offer your clients a freebie or prize if they will take part. How about starting a forum on your site or visit forums on the subject.

I could go on like this for hours.

Anyway your original question about times to end ebay sales. I have two target markets, retail type clients, I prefer to end these sales at the weekend (Fri, Sat, Sun) generally in the afternoon or evening. The second is the business type and I split this into two types 1/ Employee buying for the company, i'll expect them to buy during office hours, afternoons normally, 2/ Owners or managers of smaller companies, They will more than likley buy late evening or later (after they finish the important work and get a chance to do something a bit lighter - like i'm doing now)

This was supposed to be a short answer - I failed

Good Luck

Jim