Starting bid, WTF!?

[tucker rocky]

Dan Andreasson (2874129)
25 years, excellent form, healthy
A controversial person who is calm and dishonest.
Has solid experience and passable leadership abilities.


Speciality: Head

Nationality: Sverige
Assessed value: 794 000 US$
Wage: 6 144 US$/week including 20% Bonus
Owner: Barbarian Horde
Warnings: 1


Stamina: excellent Goaltending: disastrous
Playmaking: inadequate Passing: weak
Winger: excellent Defending: excellent
Scoring: passable Set Pieces: weak

Transfer list: Winger

Deadline: 5/3/2004 at 03.56

Asking price: 1.0 US$

Highest bid:
918 000 US$ by HOF

WHY??

[tucker rocky]

Dola,

All this teams players have starting bids of $1.0

[Nyarlahotep]

Why not?

[tucker rocky]

Why not?

I guess so, he knows those players won't go for cheap, except maybe a couple of his players. I can see why now.

[Havok]

i start out almost all of my players for $0.0..... im a firm believer in bidding wars.

Thats why i find it wierd that so many people post topics asking how much to put a player on the transfer market for.

[tucker rocky]

i start out almost all of my players for $0.0..... im a firm believer in bidding wars.

Thats why i find it wierd that so many people post topics asking how much to put a player on the transfer market for.

On one hand, there is always that possiblity that a fairly skilled player with decent value might go for cheap. The possiblity is very low on the other hand.
So most likely you'll get a bidding war.

[Nyarlahotep]

i start out almost all of my players for $0.0..... im a firm believer in bidding wars.

Thats why i find it wierd that so many people post topics asking how much to put a player on the transfer market for.
What he said. Even when i place amounts I start lower than comprable players that are listed.

[FrogMan]

there are two ways of seeing this. When I have a newly popped trainee and I wouldn't mind training him one more level, then I usually put the player on the market with a fairly overpriced starting price. However, when I only ned to get rid of a player, I'll often start him at 0.

Why $1 insteand of $0? Why not? the result is the same...

FM

[FrogMan]

dola, from now on, I've decided that my low starting price players will now start at $99 CDN, a bargain, under a 100 :)

FM

[sterlingice]

dola, from now on, I've decided that my low starting price players will now start at $99 CDN, a bargain, under a 100 :)

FM
Despite the fact that all bids have to start at $1K? ;)

But what Havok said is right on the money. Basically, if they're good and at a low price, they'll get bookmarked by people looking for bargains which can lead to bidding wars when their time is up. If nothing else, as long as you have a player up in prime time, some daytrader will snatch them up for 80% of what they are worth.

However, there are some guys who are too good to risk that on. Usually when I'm selling my middies, I put a guy up at a higher than market value price, trying to get one or two guys to bite on him. And if that doesn't work, I'll put him up again at a slightly lower price. But those type of players, I want a decent return on and I'm not leaving it up to the chance of some daytraders and another guy getting in a bidding war.

SI

[FrogMan]

Despite the fact that all bids have to start at $1K? ;)

hehe, I know that, my $99 was just for fun, and didn't matter more than starting them at $0, or $1 for that matter :)



However, there are some guys who are too good to risk that on. Usually when I'm selling my middies, I put a guy up at a higher than market value price, trying to get one or two guys to bite on him. And if that doesn't work, I'll put him up again at a slightly lower price. But those type of players, I want a decent return on and I'm not leaving it up to the chance of some daytraders and another guy getting in a bidding war.
SI
That's what I was talking about when I mentionned players I don't want to see go for under market value. That and the fact that we've all learned not to trust the Hattrick server at all...

FM