Where are the bids?

[Juliebabe25]

As a good friend explained to me, "John, you sell what you have. A businessman sells what people think they want!".

Very well put !

[DZAMBO]

I'm surprised at the people remarking on low prices here. When I'm searching for something I want to buy, I used to come to eBid and invariably find prices are higher than on Am and feeBay. These days I rarely bother. The logic that it's a cheaper fee structure to sell here on eBid seems to escape a lot of sellers.

But as a seller I find little difference between here and the dark side. Both places I rarely get bids, even when I start at 99p. Of course, there's a simple explanation for this. As a good friend explained to me, "John, you sell what you have. A businessman sells what people think they want!".

So...''john'' how is your sales on Ebid.............from that ''quote''...

[johnwash1]

So...''john'' how is your sales on Ebid.............from that ''quote''...

Absolutely appalling! :/

I sold a reasonable number of items up to around 2008, but after that it tailed right off. I guess the site got so big that people browsing randomly no longer spotted my stuff, or I'm not using the right options to get Google hits, or some such issue.

[bluebedouin]

.....or some such issue.

It could be the lack of thumbnail pic.A lot of buyers,myself included,are lazy & won't bother looking at a listing with no thumbnail.

[JanetB]

Absolutely appalling! :/

I sold a reasonable number of items up to around 2008, but after that it tailed right off. I guess the site got so big that people browsing randomly no longer spotted my stuff, or I'm not using the right options to get Google hits, or some such issue.

I see only 1 thumbnail on your search list.

You don't have any images on your listings (except 1)

You have:
RUS
10 days > 1st bid
3 days > 1st bid

All your titles are in CAPS (Google grammatically edits this with results perhaps different to yours)

[FBNeNotes]

Price .... Bids
$4.00 .... 0 Bids
$4.50 ... Buy Now

What a Price Column And a BId Column looks like. If a Bid is placed the $4.50 and Buy Now disappear, and price appreciates when required.
Without this... you will not see bids easily as you look on Category pages and sub-Cat pages.

[johnwash1]

Price .... Bids
$4.00 .... 0 Bids
$4.50 ... Buy Now

What a Price Column And a BId Column looks like. If a Bid is placed the $4.50 and Buy Now disappear, and price appreciates when required.
Without this... you will not see bids easily as you look on Category pages and sub-Cat pages.

Not sure I understand what you're saying here. Are you recommending I don't use Buy it now?

Why wouldn't caps be a good idea? Is every newspaper headline writer wrong?

I do agree I should get round to including images. I find it hard to get motivated to do so, when things don't sell (which was the case even when I did use images). Since the kind of things I'm offering are not competing against numerous other sellers of similar items, I've always assumed I would get trade only from people specifically searching, in which case lack of a picture wouldn't influence them?

[JanetB]

Not sure I understand what you're saying here. Are you recommending I don't use Buy it now?

Why wouldn't caps be a good idea? Is every newspaper headline writer wrong?

I do agree I should get round to including images. I find it hard to get motivated to do so, when things don't sell (which was the case even when I did use images). Since the kind of things I'm offering are not competing against numerous other sellers of similar items, I've always assumed I would get trade only from people specifically searching, in which case lack of a picture wouldn't influence them?

Google have their own set of rules:
Check them out here:
http://www.google.com/support/mercha...pe3hx&cbrank=4

[florida33549]

As has been stated earlier in this thread - page after page of items with no bids could (and would in my opinion) have an adverse affect on the site as a whole - not just for those with bin listings.
The site would just look dead.
I believe that could well be the reason that ebid got rid of it last time.

And this doesn't makes the site look dead? Surely a bid column could do no more harm than this.

[cmjewels925]

And this doesn't makes the site look dead? Surely a bid column could do no more harm than this.

Of course it could do more harm. That is the closed listings which you have to actively search for - and judging by the number of threads asking how to find them, nobody is going to stumble upon them by accident. The closed listings also show items that have sold as buy nows so it will always show more positive activity than a bid column.