Question For Experienced Sellers

Sean,

The last five minutes of the auction should see a flurry of activity.

To me, the important statistics up until the last minute of the auction are Watchers and Visitor Count. If you've got 10+ people Watching the auction, and your total visits reach 3 figures, you know you've got a winner.

A large percentage of Ebayers, especially the knowledgeable ones, snipe their bids. The people who have already bid the coin above $200 are the ones who don't know the system. They're useful, in that they force snipes to a little higher level than the sniper might have otherwise, but you won't know what the coin's true perceived value is to the people who know until the last few seconds.

I've been very pleasantly surprised at how my auctions finished, many times.

The other issue you may be having right now is your feedback number being so low. It seems that the higher the price the higher feedback number is expected. You may want to start buying some small cheaper things that you can find and try boosting your numbers a bit. I know that it will not help on this particular auction, but if there are that many people watching it I do not think you need to worry that much. Just like others have posted, the last few minutes are the major flurry of action and if it is above $200 already you have a few people that know the true value of it and are trying to scare off some of the 'bottom feeders' that think they can get it for nothing.