Ye be wasting your breath burgyeb
Those who have seen a small boost in sales, a miniscule number at best, and still nothing to provide eBid with any real revenue, do not understand how their 50p and £1.00 or even £5.00 items are not worth the cost of paid for views via google shopping because they cannot work out that their 50p item sells after say 30 paid for views but will also have free views from other sources like normal google/bing and other search engines, with those google window shopping views costing eBid say 1p per view as an example (so 30p total) for eBid to make 1p in a 2% fvf on that 50p item, or 2p on an item that sells for £1.00 after 20+ paid for views plus whatever free views from other sources.
eBid's 2% (UK) works out at 1p for every 50p so even on a £5.00 item eBid only earns 10p when it sells and that could still be after spending 30p or more in paid for views. There's just no logic for eBid to go to such great expense for miniscule results and revenue.
When you think of all the money eBid has spent on google shopping they could have spent that same money instead with £25.00-£35.00 per day budgets 3 or 4 days per week on Facebook advertising reaching over a billion people for far better results. Google shopping is a waste of time and money and just is not cost effective for eBid and never will be due to the severe lack of a larger volume of sustainable sales across the larger majority of sellers who rarely sell anything here.
I send out a business promo card in every package from the other side and it has delivered me nothing for eBid and I have several repeat buyers on the other side and they receive that business promo card in every package and they still do not come to eBid to buy that same item for a cheaper price.
When shoppers do not see a place like eBid actively advertising then they do not trust it even when they will be dealing with the same seller with the same products at lower prices.
Advertising = building trust with shoppers.
You only have to target the shoppers with the advertising as ultimately the sellers will see the same advertising and the sellers will then take this place more seriously and give it a chance to build up sales.
The businesses regardless of size are not going to flock here with no shoppers here to begin with due to the lack of advertising and you cannot expect sellers on the other side with 100,000+ feedback to email customers to say "hey we're on eBid now too with lower prices than elsewhere" let alone sellers with 10,000+ feedback.
The platform (eBid) is supposed to advertise itself, not isolate itself from the rest of the world harming its own potential and harming the potential of the larger majority of sellers at the same time, while relying solely on something as ineffective and costly as google shopping where someone else like eBay or Amazon will come along and pay google more money to get priority over competitors in where they appear in search results.
eBid really needs to do what most sensible business owners would do, prioritise the native side of their business, do the advertising solely in their native country first to build a strong base to expand out from by increasing revenue on the native side so they can build country by country after that. As eBid will never do this then it will still be stuck in the same stagnant position it is already in ten years from now with everyone having the same conversations over those ten years with nothing ever changing and how many years now have you all been having the same conversation about all this? 4, 5, 6 years? Longer? And still nothing has changed for the larger majority of sellers with their sheer lack of sales no matter what they try to do themselves so they go back to the other side and the big A where they have sustainable sales.