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Just wondering how come, on that popular auction site, the sellers with the most expensive Canadian paper money wait until cheap listing days to post their notes for sale?  Are they just cheap or is it something more insidious?

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Well,

For expensive notes the eBaY Fees can be quite expensive so the Cheap listing days are a blessing for those who do not want to pay an arm and a leg to sell their notes.  

Another reason is that more collectors view the seller's auction since many collectors are drawn to the volume of notes listed on the 'dollar days'.

Fees can be quite expensive

especially if the starting price is high, and the seller just keeps re-listing over and over

many collectors are drawn to the volume of notes listed

Sometimes -- but then it can also be easy to miss something because there's so much to view.  Sometimes the inundation of filler is a big turn off to the more serious collector.

Personally, I've never found the 10 cent insertion fees (or other promotions) that big of a draw because my item is suddenly competing with 2000 listings instead of a 1000.  Also it could be only the cheap guys checking the item out.  Most often these so-called "breaks" are given when sales/volume is at a low.  I doubt there's any public advetising campaign to bring in new viewers/bidders, or to really stimulate the market.