[Hart_Rod]

What you have to understand about Ebay (not that I'm an expert), is that people like playing the game. No wants to step in with $10,000 inital bid. They want to watch it a while and then test the water. I would start it at $1000. You want to get people interested. High starting bids will drive away the tire kickers. In this case, that's what you want, a lot of people looking and a lot of people bidding. People want to know what they are bidding on is desirable (ie lots of bids). People who are really interested will usually wait until the end to bid any way. It's not in their interest to drive the price up. I've tried it both ways. Having the lower starting bid, seemed to get more people watching and more people bidding. Just my .02.