Why has ebid dropped a huge 400,000 listings ?

[somersethedge]

I agree RTS is not the best idea but there are times and reasons when it is better than removing your listings from the site while doing other things not related to listing/selling

[Juliebabe25]

Ebid on PSU (which is the USA listings) has just dropped another 100,000 in two days.

There is another auction listing site, they have more sites listed than PSU, but two of the biggest are listed but with no figures (they are down at the bottom)

http://www.auctionnews.org/sitewatch/index.php

I suppose it is ebid having another USA clean out ! (or they had some good sales over 4th of July day!)

I am going to watch the UK figures to see if they do the same !

Anyway I added a couple more items yesterday. I cannot add many as I only have one product in several colours and styles.

[Gothicina]

Ebid on PSU (which is the USA listings) has just dropped another 100,000 in two days.

There is another auction listing site, they have more sites listed than PSU, but two of the biggest are listed but with no figures (they are down at the bottom)

http://www.auctionnews.org/sitewatch/index.php

I suppose it is ebid having another USA clean out ! (or they had some good sales over 4th of July day!)

I am going to watch the UK figures to see if they do the same !

Anyway I added a couple more items yesterday. I cannot add many as I only have one product in several colours and styles.

Looks like Betamonline is stocktaking again, he usually relists in a few days.

[poppa501]

Here is an interesting comparison site that you may want to check out. Has eBid listed as #2.
http://online-auction-sites.toptenreviews.com/

[Juliebabe25]

@poppa

Yes I had seen that site a long time ago, thanks for bringing it to my attention again.

It has quite a few errors
Eg it shows screen shots of the old ebid
It shows online auctions as having the same user base as ebid
And its average number of auctions are miles out for many of the sites.
Do they mean "auctions" or listings ?

But still it does show people that there are alternatives out there.

And it has quite a high Alexa rating, which means that quite a few people visit it

[Heruur]

I have heard that paypal is freezing accounts of users that use it's services for ebid and other sites that compete with ebay, to eliminate competition. A lot of ebay power sellers moved to ebid to try it, only to get their Pay pal accounts frozen. They froze mine after a major purchace from a buyer on ebid. They are using the excuse that it may be a "security risk"

[florida33549]

I have heard that paypal is freezing accounts of users that use it's services for ebid and other sites that compete with ebay, to eliminate competition. A lot of ebay power sellers moved to ebid to try it, only to get their Pay pal accounts frozen. They froze mine after a major purchace from a buyer on ebid. They are using the excuse that it may be a "security risk"

How long is your account frozen for?

[baconsdozen]

If this is true Paypal are taking a huge risk,they are already being sued for witholding funds and to do so again on the grounds mentioned would open the flood gates to more actions.
Paypal has competition in the form of google checkout etc and to risk alientating huge numbers of customers in this way is pretty ludicrous,after all they are still making money on the transaction if its on ebid or ebay or anywhere else for that matter.

[TonyBridger]

As PayPal is branching out and asking other websites to use their services they are unlikely to be taking the action described above.

[deltadelta48]

If this is so, it is counterproductive to PP's plan to be used on many many other sites and expanding its customer base significantly.

But since PP is the only reason poor old feebay is now showing a smidge of profit, would not surprise me they would attempt to "save" their former feebay customers from financial harm by holding accounts!