What's the logic behind hiding the reserve?

[lugerholsterrepair]

Herr Apis, Your refusal to come to terms with auctions and how they work is your business. I speak from experience. I sold $3000 in bayonets last month.. I guess we will have to agree to disagree.
What does it matter if? If a cricket had a machine gun the birds wouldn't eat him. I say what really matters is to get as many people interested as you can and you do that by starting low..using a reserve to protect your investment. Anything other than that is ignorant. You MUST have a keen sense of what your item is worth...
Of course my expertise is in selling, yours in buying.
I use the classifieds. I quit using the classifieds 10 years ago as they reach such a small market they are virtually useless except for yard sale junk. Besides they can be horribly expensive. It's vitally important to not only reach as large a market as possible but to pinpoint your buyer. Ebay and some other venues have proven to work a million times better than classifieds and are much cheaper. I would be the village idiot to offer a collector Luger holster in my local classifieds...

Herr Merick..Henceforth let us be friends. How could we be otherwise?
if you don't like what a seller is doing before you enter into a contract with him, you probably won't like what he does after either. Wise words...



Jerry Burney