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Originally Posted by bomberboysk
Actually, if you know much about ebay 0.99 is best to start, because people will bid it up, especially at the last few hours left. Can always set a reserve though...
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Setting a reserve pretty much defeats the point of the .99p start.
Any popular item that you put up on eBay is pretty much guaranteed to end in a given range. Like I said, judging from similar auctions, the range for your laptop is £280 to £350. It doesn't matter what you start it at, it will finish somewhere in there. However, there are some things that you can do to help it end towards the higher end of the scale.
Starting it at .99p will give it a lot of attention. It will get more bids, which means that more people will have invested time into your auction. Where as if you start it around the price that you "want", you can only expect to get a couple of bids, no one will be paying any attention to it until right before it ends, and you're much less likely to get any sort of bidding war going on.
Don't take my advice if you don't want to, but I sell about a couple thousand dollars worth of stuff on eBay every month, so I have a little experience playing the game.