Originally Posted by
ikeaplus
Hi,
Another eBay refugee here. I'm not burning my boats yet with eBay because I want to use it to drive custom to me on eBid and my new web store. On eBay I send a printed sheet with any item I sell and I have now changed that to explain why I am moving to eBid. Also, I get a lot of questions about my eBay items and so I have started explaining the situation to them in my replies - 2 out of 2 so far have said they will be following me to eBid (offered postal discounts!). Emailing all your old buyers is spamming and if I was one of those buyers I'm afraid it would put me off completely. On eBay a buyer can say if they want email communications from you through the 'subscription' option - that will be the only way I'll be using email over this.
Get eBay to work for you not the other way around while you build up on eBid - that's my approach!
I have also signed the worldwide petition against the changes even though I know it won't make any difference but it made me feel better!
Just hope the eBid servers are up to the job - I couldn't get on at all yesterday!
Just my 10p's worth!