I havent gone back my products are still on here, im just not selling anything! Its not a case of running back its a case of wanting to make money and at the moment ive lost money by paying my sign up fees! Ebid needs a marketing stratagy, you cant really on sellers coming here what ebid needs is buyers.
I've been here about a year and I have decided that I'm going to continue listing here. (I've had 40 some odd sales of various little items.) Right now many of my auctions have closed and I need to get some listing done again.
The only way that I can see eBid becoming a rival of you-know-what is if sellers list a lot of items. Part of the problem that I find is that when I want to buy a widget, that there aren't any of what I'm looking for on eBid, so I end up having to go elsewhere.
It goes without saving that what one person likes to buy on-line isn't the same as what another person shops for. eBid needs more sellers and more items in order to become more competitive, in my opinion. So, I had better take my own advice and get listing. :-)
Marie
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I actually think Ebid should have mandatory fees on all auction items. Two reasons why. Because if I put an item up for auction and the price isn't high enough I can bid on it myself (with a second account or a friend) bidding the price up. And if I end up buying it who cares because I can relist it at a later time. A fee actually encourages honesty. I am not going to bid on something myself if I know I'll loose money on it if I win. It's not a true auction when it can be rigged. Second, I list everything in a gallery because I want Ebid to make money. Ebid can't become a true competitor of Ebay unless it has enough revenue. Honestly I would even buy a bond or stock in Ebid just so it could compete better with Ebay.
You are right, I haven't sold a single thing on Ebid ....without the help of Ebay. Here is what I do and I have had a fair amount of success in the short time I've been on Ebid. BTW you may want to check out my store on here, feel free to steal my ChearperThanEbay logo if anyone is interested. I have a lot of items that are similiar so I will list maybe 5 on Ebay and the rest on Ebid at a lower price (even the shipping is lower). After the sale on Ebay I email them and let them know I have items on Ebid and they are all cheaper, even the shipping. I let them know I have multiple items sometimes but on Ebid everything is sifnifigantly cheaper because of no fees. Every time I do this I have sold out of my Ebid product for that category. In fact my store is almost empty on here now. So not only am I making a sale I am spreading the word about Ebid by signing people up and letting them know to look on here for cheaper prices.
http://us.ebid.net/perl/main.cgi?mo=...aper-than-ebay
It has to be buyers, sellers and items for Ebid to continue growing.
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I have only been on ebid for a few days now and see tremendous potential. I have an e-bay store that I am very frustrated with. In my business there is a lot of competition. Ebay does not protect the little guy. I am not going to go into iut but huge sellers on e-bay have tactics to keep the little guy down and ebay supports this. My seller fees on ebay run over $500 dollars a month so this shows you how much I sell. Complaints to ebay go unanswered. In the past week I have done online chat, direct phone call and messaging about a problem and they keep telling me they will get back to me within 48 hours. Guess what? its been a week. Anyway, if you want to continue to pay those fees, which are going up because they will start charging commisiion on shipping in June, you go right ahead. I have started listing items on Craigslist with a link to my Item. I have one item that has received over 2500 views since yesterday. Thats one craigslist post in one major city. If anything, it gets the word out.
Well…once for all eBay have right now about 8,800.000 Millions Collectibles listed and most of this stuff is very low price and THAT mean : how in God sake sellers on eBay make any money or profit after sale this stuff….doesn’t matter what anybody say after very big fees from eBay and Pay Pal I don’t think many can make any money at all…but people list and nobody say ‘’this is junk’’ or ''parking site''…and by the way eBay have more of 2 times Collectibles on listing from eBid total all items…so in the end if anybody say ‘’parking site’’ I think eBay is more parking site from eBid because if you sell on eBay any collectibles low price item this is not only ‘’junk’’ ‘’parking site’’ this is mean my friend you’re not only list this stuff on eBay you’re sell this almost for FREE and you work for yourself free but not for eBay…you work…you list…you pay...instead eBay paying you….how about that for answer….AMEN……..
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