I've visited tamebay at various times over the years (used to be a powerseller once!!!) and I've never been able to make a positive comment about any alt site without being attacked.
I've visited tamebay at various times over the years (used to be a powerseller once!!!) and I've never been able to make a positive comment about any alt site without being attacked.
Last edited by madelaine; 24th November 2013 at 06:13 PM.
Madelaine
4 shops for Cats Protection & Prospect Hospice
My Postcard Shop
BK Stamps for Philatelic listings
& Yarnalong for craft patterns
and
Lotzabitz -anything that doesn't belong in one of the other shops.
Success doesn't always mean huge sales on other sites either. We'd love to hear that eBid is a vibrant community of people making additional income and more information like Andy's story (which we happily published (twice!!)).
What we don't want is inflated fictional figures or people saying it's a great platform for business unless it is.
[QUOTE=MPS16;1573685]As of 18.40 GMT this earlier post of yours is no longer visible.
It has been removed.
It's still there, just search for the word "sleep" on the eBid post (Open the post and press CTRL and F) and you'll find it :-)
Last edited by mountcomp; 24th November 2013 at 06:49 PM.
Yes, sorry my mistake.
You beat me with the correct answer before I managed to delete my incorrect statement.
My only excuse is my lack of experience with your systems display.
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Whilst I don't sell high priced items.
Over 4,500 items sold on eBid.
Over 1,600 this year so far (I think the lowest item price was 60p and the highest was £48.00)
Whilst there is no secret about my sales, this might open a few eyes (including eBid):
Unique visitor to sale rate conversion = around 20%. Although I will openly admit that could be spinned in numerous directions - but I work on a very basic method as I enjoy selling and I am not spending hours on stats. So the basic method is a straight total unique visitors to total sales, regardless of the fact that one person may purchase 3,5,9 or whatever.
All of that is probably not bad considering I don't sell international because I don't have the time. For UK sales I don't have to queue up at the Post Office, I can go straight up to the counter and just hand the packages over (waving at the bay sellers as I walk past them in my eBid t-shirt). By the way I still include the international visitors in the stat above even though they can't purchase.
I personally believe that anything is possible for a seller using eBid - whether it is low price items or higher priced items.
Chris, you made a comment on one of the previous eBid Tamebay threads which has stuck in my mind.....
"A surprising number of people wouldn’t survive if they lost the eBay part of their business, but could happily survive the loss of other venues."
I sadly agree with that. But only because I believe that a lot of these sellers don't really know what they are doing - and I find that extremely saddening. There are legendary stories of huge sellers losing their accounts on the bay and not being able to replicate their sales elsewhere. I have seen a number of sellers come to eBid over the last couple of years, when I look at their listings I think to myself how on earth is it possible to list like that as there are so many things wrong it is eye-watering. Selling is extremely simple as a process but when so called experienced sellers from the bay turn up here seemingly without any basic knowledge about selling it is rather surprising...
Those on eBid who make a good level of sales (whatever you may deem to be a good rate of sales) can go anywhere and sell anywhere. But why would they when the FVF is 2%.
Kreative is deserving of your article - he has developed, adapted and is stronger than ever. eBid could do with more sellers like him.
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