eBid needs people to do some research before posting on the forums.Originally Posted by jlh1973mu
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eBid needs people to do some research before posting on the forums.
Oh I am sorry, may be you didn't notice that my location is in the US........much is not known about ebid here in the USeBid needs people to do some research before posting on the forums.
I think Blue Bedouin means that before posting about ebid running a tv advertising campaign.....
They need to find out how much a tv campaign is (in the UK or the USA)
Or just do a search of the forums first & read the multitude of threads on the subject.
Unfortunately, such advertising does not often target the people that go on to become buyers of our listings. Very scattered message and very unlikely to generate revenue or sales. Fleebay always did this type of advertising (for itself,not for specific listings like ebid does by downloading our listings to google) and it did well many years ago to promote fleebay. Fleebay was new, exciting, and people flocked there to buy and sell. Now even they have cut down on their advertising dramatically, a sign of the changing times.
http://us.ebid.net/stores/Vintage-Needles-and-Pins
http://us.ebid.net/stores/Old-Cookbook-Haven
http://us.ebid.net/stores/Music-Music-Music
http://us.ebid.net/stores/Merry-Miscellaneous
Insanity is doing the same thing over & over again & expecting different results - Albert Einstein
They guys from the Ranch posted their thoughts on advertising.
They worked out what it cost them to get one new buying member and how much that buyer would spend and what fees they would get from it and they said they would loose on each new member.
Every time I have done some advertising the only person who wins is the advertising company. They get paid. I sometimes get a sale or two or nothing. Never enough to pay for the ad.
You need deep pockets to do effective advertising.
Perhaps it was Feebays advertising that started then on their current path. When you are putting out as much money as they do to advertise you have to recoup that money from somewhere. You can't charge buyers for some reason, but your sellers are a great source of income.
We don't know eBid well here in the states but I sold for years on Yahoo while they had their auction site in the US. I was always amazed at the number of people that didn't know they had an auction site. I sold 5 to 6 items a day so people were finding us somehow. There are better search tools out there now and eBidders need to do what they can to get the word out there. Everytime a new buyer finds any one of us we all benefit.
Today we stopped at a local Flea Market and I think that in the near future we will have a new seller. We have sold with this fellow for years and his health is not letting him do the markets like he used to. He has good computer skills and lots of stuff to get rid of. It is one person at a time and one item at a time and that is how we grow.
There is a web site called feebay.org. Why do you keep advertising them ?.
Put a pin on your emap, very cool...
Best wishes and many sales to all,
That's a good point Bakers Dozen.
That pheebay site needs advertising it is as slow as. (those negative sounding names never work)
I had always thought that we used feebay on here as if we mentioned the other big site by their name that the thread would be pulled.
So what do you recommend ?
Greedbay
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