What Has Happened To Ebay??????
Harvey
using 'Buy it Now" with ridiculously high prices rather than starting
at a certain price and letting it be a real auction??
Your comments are welcome. TIA Harvey
shreadvector
High listing fees plus high PayPal fees result in the need to start
auctions with high prices. Waiting a week for a high priced auction to
end is absurd when you expect only one person to bid at the last
minute, so why not use the Buy It Now listing option and that way a
truely intested buyer can buy it as soon as they discover the item. if
an intersted buyer waits, then they may lose the item to another buyer
who actually "buys" the item.
Frank Galikanokus
A buyer who actually "buys" the item.
Yes, but if you look closely you find that most of the buy it now ads are recycled over
and over again.
I wonder how actual sales are doing on eBay?
JAM
Relayer
wrote:
I myself like By It Now on MS coins. I also like "Make an Offer". Most
of the "recycled" ones are due to the price being out of whack to the
market.
I actually got a nice suprise today on a coin that was undergraded
(for once). It's usually a dealer selling if it's Buy It Now. The one
thing I wish they made mandatory is tracking numbers, regardless. They
cost 75 or 80 cents and it helps to keep track of stuff. Even if
shipping is "Free" (which we all know is added to the price anyway),
Ebay should add it to the invoice regardless and make it a TOS that
it's used.
Or make a minimum where it is required, like $10 or something
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howard
anything over $100.00 has lower BIN fee than the 9% up to $50.00 for the
"regular" auction
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Gene85
like a national Craiglist? Selling on Craiglist the listing fee sure
beats eBay. Before eBay there were several online coin auctions. They
all died as everyone moved to eBay. Perhaps now is a good time for
someone to start one up again
Relayer
The only thing I DONT like is when the picture is enhanced or the
price is out of line on shipping. I dont sell much but I do know how
much it cost when I do....
Jerry Dennis
I just realized. Ebay is now hosed because Meg Whitman is gone. Wait
a minute. Wasn't that supposed to be a good thing? (Opening the door
for a severely OT political rant.)
Jerry
They're only a venue...
Ken Barr
Gene85 <gen...@giganews.com> wrote:
Just curious, what online coin auction sites did eBay kill?
I can't think of any offhand ...
Re a new site ... many have tried, all have failed. The list
of "eBay killer" auction sites is legion ...
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George Habrecht
to the mega-seller a long time ago and disenfranchised its smaller
vendors.
Sure, they’ve tried to bring people back with no fee listing, etc.
The damage was already done. Forget the stamp marketplace. I listed
a couple of stamps only to have a mega-vendor report me after I
wouldn’t offer a return policy.
My feeling is that once I mail out the product, I no longer control it
anymore. What protects the small seller from an unscrupulous buyer
who purchases products and returns fakes in their place?
Despite a 100% positive feedback rating with a couple hundred
completed sales, eBay removed my listings and stated that they had
left the policing of those specialty areas to trusted moderators. In
my case I believe the person was a larger seller. Can anyone say
“conflict of interest”?
Jud
> Just curious, what online coin auction sites did eBay kill?
> I can't think of any offhand ...
>
Yahoo auctions? I don't know, just a guess.
Ken Barr
<40c9e24d-1e63-4f6d...@g8g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
Jud <numis...@aol.com> wrote:
Nope. eBay wuz launched on Labor Day 1995. I started
selling there in November 1996, after monitoring it for
several months to convince myself that it "had legs" ...
As I recall, there were NO viable alternatives at the time.
Yahoo!Auctions wuz launced in September 1998, one of a
myriad of erstwhile "eBay killers" that subsequently flopped
(and most of them very deservedly so ...).
Reid Goldsborough
Amazon.com Auctions, despite both of them starting up after eBay.
They're both now defunct because of their inability to take anywhere
close to enough marketshare away from eBay to make themselves viable.
There are small niche online marketplaces in existence, but no
competitor to eBay. eBay is a virtual monopoly, and it has always been
run like one. Its customer service is abysmal, with it never having ever
hired enough customer service people throughout its existence to even
read a fraction of the messages customers send it asking for service, a
situation that still exists today as far as I know.
At the same time, during its existence eBay's fees have continuously
increased. Further, whenever eBay announces a fee increase, it always
accompanies this with a fee decrease in a minor area, playing up the fee
decrease while the overall costs to sellers rise significantly and are
higher than they have ever been.
The criminality that takes place on eBay also continues to be a big
problem, with eBay always playing this down but with government agencies
such as the FBI having disagreed significantly with eBay on the extent
of the problem. I've personally seen forgery criminals set up shop on
eBay for many years despite the efforts of many people to alert eBay to
them.
eBay can still be worthwhile marketplace for many things and for many
people, including myself. But you have to know eBay's ins and outs and
be careful if you don't want to join the untold numbers of people who
have been scammed there. All told, eBay is a good example of how
unmitigated greed is not a good thing.
It's clear why Yahoo Auctions failed -- mostly not allowing users to
communicate among themselves, a situation that now exists on eBay as
well. But I'm not clear on why Amazon.com Auctions failed, not having
spent enough time there or read much about it. It probably just never
gathered enough traction.
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