Hi guys,
Firstly Let me give you all the link to my central thread ( Silvertrader’s Investigation & Plug Thread )
http://www.ebid.net/forums/showthrea...mp-Plug-Thread
Now on with this investigation story
A few of you might remember me mentioning in a previous thread how i was walking past one of these centers on my high street and saw a sign in the window saying " do you have cash in your attic" maybe sell your items on Ebay "
At the time i walked in and told one of the gentlemen about ebid and he promised to look into it an then post a sign with ebid as well
Basically he just added Ebid to the same sign so now it says ebay or ebid !
this is their site:
http://www.entrust.co.uk/fin
Moving on:
Apart from the lunacy of a European initiative / business start up enterprise center having to resort to telling the masses to flog there worldly possessions in the hope of turning the economy around!( wtf )
I went back in and spoke to them again and got some interesting info from one of the bosses which i think leaves a few questions !
I'm going to post the email exchange here but it is still ongoing so i will update as reply's come in
Questions i will try to get answer's to:
1, who is this outside consultant and where does this consultant come from ?
2, can i get them to plug Ebid instead of ebay ?
I sent this quick email to him yesterday:
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Dear Andy,
I spoke to you briefly earlier today regarding Ebid and why it might be better to promote this site than ebay!
I recently started my own little business and had the option of either setting up on ebay or ebid and decided for ebid for a variety of reasons, link to my shop selling bullion and collectable coins.
http://uk.ebid.net/perl/main.cgi?mo=...e=silvertrader
Setting up a shop on ebay £19.99 a month
setting up a shop or even up to 5 shops on ebid after buying a lifetime membership deal £42.00
ebay listing fee= £0.40
ebid listing fee = free
final sales fee ebay = 10%
final sales fee ebid = 3% but if your a seller plus shop owner 2%
To cut a long story short if your selling an item on ebay and using paypal your routinely lose about 15% of your total sale price and if it does not sell your still pay for the privilege of placing an add on ebay.
on ebid your lose 0% if add is with a thumbnail to 3% if your a free member add then 3.4% for pay pal your a lot better off
Now i understand that ebay has a lot more members however especially due to the new postal prices a lot of sellers of low priced larger items are now moving over to ebid and with over 3,366,416 listings on its site and millions of members worldwide it is by far the second biggest auction site online.
also the community is a lot more active and helpful on ebid then on ebay
links:
http://uk.ebid.net/
http://www.ebid.net/forums/
I live locally so if you would like me to come in and tell you more! feel free to let me know
but there's no point in telling people to start a small business on ebay when most of the profit margins will only go to ebay
Its a complete joke !
Sincerely Martin
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