[johnsmith]

Yes I know I ask a whloe lot of questions but that is what this forum is for right??

I see some people have shirts up for .01 cents and people are bidding, the price is now $7.00, what is the point?

Is this the way you make money? or is this kind of like a waste of time??

Or

Should you just set your price and go on with it?

Also if there is a large category of shirts for example guitar shirts(over 3,000) how do you get your shirt to be seen by anybody?

 

[monkeylantern]

To be honest, the answers to both those questions are pretty long...there are many different schools of thought in the eBay world. I'd recommend a book such as:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/08...f=pd_bbs_3/103-6521799-7242260?_encoding=UTF8

It's one of the best in a very poor market for eBay books. It covers those two questions in about 40 pages....

 

[jdr8271]

My thought is, design quality t-shirts. The shirts that start bidding at .01 are usually unoriginal ripoffs of others designs. If your designs are good, you can ask a solid price and get it.

 

[monkeylantern]

The shirts that start bidding at .01 are usually unoriginal ripoffs of others designs.

Or just people trying to manipulate the ebay search functions to appear on the first page by price searches...

Or just people using a loss leader to gain search saturation to make people go to their Stores...

Or people trying to induce a bidding war...

Or people in crowded markets spending 40 auctions to flush the first page of search results clean of the competition....

.01 aren't just "unoriginal ripoffs". It's more likely that they're being run by canny sellers using advanced market observation tools to squeeze every penny out of the market.