Inertia Posted:

also displaying what the reserve is is kinda pointless? what’s the difference between this and just using the minimum price? And if anyone bids under the reserve price that he’s not really serious anyway so why not make it so that he can’t bid under the reserve price? .

I bid 180K on an item, in an effort to keep my bid over later bidders. There were no bids at the time, and the minimum bid was about 32K. I was willing to go to 200K but thought I’d see how things went first.

And I find out no one bought it, but I didn’t get it. What was the reserve price? I have no idea. It could’ve been 190 or 200, in which case, if I had known about it beforehand, I would’ve bid it.

So yes. Either get rid of reserve prices, or show them. Otherwise we’re just wasting our time.