I Guess Red is "Right" (Auctions)

All my backgrounds are red here and I do just fine. But it’s fine with me if everyone else uses blue.

Congrats on your red auctions!

Fascinating and thanks for sharing.

Along the same line:

I recently read that emails ie: bmails sent would more likely be replied to if you opened with the person’s name. I have been using it and have received many more responses even if it is jsut a "thank you. Just sold a load of stuff on Craigs list and used that hint and can only say I was pleased with my sales.

This tip I most likely read here…possibly by jsgeare. When you make an offer at a garage sale the best words to use are “I can GIVE you $?.00 for this”. Not “Would you TAKE $?.00 for this.” I always have the item in my hand when I approach the seller to assist her in picturing it gone. I’ve been pleased with my results, though I’ve always done well bargaining. It’s one of my favorite games.

I want you to know red WORKS. I switched the pictures in an unbid auction to show more of the rug, and now I have a bid! It was less than 1 hour later!

According to the study, red is supposed to make people bid more aggressively, arousing their sense of competition with one another; it said nothing about bidding sooner rather than later but maybe that’s part of the deal, as well. As of now, five more items have received bids, for a total of 10 out of 35 auctions, and it hasn’t even been a day since they were listed.

People usually wait until the last minute to bid on mine, but all of them have at LEAST 3 days to go. As an experiment I added a new picture with red for three other listings that did not have red, and had no bids. I’ll report on that later. Did they say what color blue for the fixed price? Light or dark?

Very interesting. Because the listing has to be looked at before anyone can bid or buy. Has anyone correlated the views?
Like if you have 1 with a blue background & one with a red background and the red sells. How many views did each one get? If the red also got more views I wonder why that would be.

I wonder if this theory will also work if I wear red? Maybe the men folk will start getting all competitive around me and there will be a flurry of “bids” for my attention! Hahaha!

I was told a LOOOONG time ago by someone that I know to be very educated in marketing and has been or is currently an actual consultant for Ebay and other big name web companies, that blue has been an industry standard long proven to be a color that promotes buying.

I guess the red would be the same as holding a red flag in front and a bull and the resulting action is “CHAAAAAAAAAAAARGE”
or in this case “BIIIIIID”
HAH

Yellow is also very stimulating…especially when needing to get in touch with your anger.

yippykiyea, laughed so hard almost fell out of my chair. But you always need that red dress.

Maybe that’s what explains why bull fighters always use red to get the bull to charge.

That is quite interesting that one color would make buyers bid more.

newriver, I think Walmart is always changing something or at least the ones here. Thankfully ours here hasn’t switched wall colors yet.

Warm colors are supposed to make people feel happy. Blue is a calming, relaxing color. I guess they want happier customers.

Yellow I have been told is an energizing colour, so maybe making them bigger they think you need a boost in walking and shopping.