[quote name='dv8mad']Quite a few people have said that, but the click numbers have stayed just about the same. There is just less off topic conversation in most of them since people tend to be following the rules for the most part.
As for the lower average bid totals, that started happening to nearly all lowballs late last year and has been a pretty common thing for quite some time.
There may still be a few that don't know about them or notice them, but I imagine that the majority knows how to get here if they need to do so.
For those that somehow didn't notice the multiple posts about it, the blogs about it and the links many people make in their sigs and in their trade lists directing them here, they may not have the capacity to formulate a proper bid if they did stumble across the subforum anyway.
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it has also been revolving around an ever tightening core group of bidders honestly who look to pick up collection pieces and filler for cheap from a reliable source. The more "regular" bidders with higher cash flow that come in, it scares away casual buyers from even bidding knowing that the heavy spenders will push them out or up to prices that you can get the same item for cheaper on other internet caches, secret or mainstream.
i usually allocate a set amount of funds to spend, and save it for lowballs as i can generally pull better deals out of here from one place than anywhere else. Of course, it also has a great deal to do with when you market your lowball, your title, the item rarity, the end time, the amount of lowballs going on with it with the same criteria, and how sexy you are... hence why my 1st lowball made record sales.... ya it didnt... but it COULD have... if only.. *sobs*
