I think Laura usually starts hers at $29 or $39 when they have a reserve.

The advantage of using reserves on ABU seems to be that the items with the most number of bids appear on the home page under "hot items" and thus get increased visibility.

I did not find I received a huge number of views, even from having items on the home page, however.

Hope that helps!

Teresa

nina,

it's hit or miss on abu. i don't find any correlation between starting price and bidding activity. i suspect there are very few buying ids regularly searching the site. e.g. when i had a string of bids, that same user was bidding on a lot of other stuff or i hear about other bidders who are existing buyers for the seller they are bidding on. but, that said, i've had a random sale here and there which is why i keep up the listings there - so i guess, a constant presence is key, imo. it's free, so the only issue i have to worry about is a simultaneous sale (yeah, right, as probable as a snow storm in san francisco).