{"id":36,"date":"2025-02-18T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchcount.com\/articles\/?p=36"},"modified":"2025-03-24T22:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:46:11","slug":"save-time-when-you-search-avoid-auctions-with-no-bids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/save-time-when-you-search-avoid-auctions-with-no-bids\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Time When You Search: Avoid Auctions with No Bids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I&#8217;m trying to find interesting auctions to bid on, I really hate when I come across overpriced auctions listed for a million dollars with zero bids.  These aren&#8217;t really auctions; they are fixed price items!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image2.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Over 4,000 Mickey Mantle &#8220;auctions&#8221; are running right now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To avoid this, I recommend searching for auctions with a minimum of 1 bid.  This ensures that someone else has already vetted the item and determined it is worth at least the minimum asking price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/AuctionsOneBidMin.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">When I filter for a minimum of 1 bid, only 639 auctions remain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 75% of the live auctions don&#8217;t have a single bid and will likely end unsold.  Searching for auctions with at least one bid is a great way to avoid combing through these overpriced fixed price items masquerading as auctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m trying to find interesting auctions to bid on, I really hate when I come across overpriced auctions listed for a million dollars with zero bids. These aren&#8217;t really auctions; they are fixed price items! To avoid this, I recommend searching for auctions with a minimum of 1 bid. This ensures that someone else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,8,9],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-auctions","tag-search","tag-search-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchcount.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}