Would you recommend eBid?

[mygal]

Get rid of the timewasters whoever they may be... 8 out of 10

[paintinglemonjane]

I voted 6 and for comparison would give ebay 3, and most other auction sites 5. So this is top.

eBid frustrates me I have to say. I judge auction sites on many things and ebid is by far I think the best auction site going. Top 5 things that would make ebid far better would be;

1. Not charging for thumbnail auctions - its not a charge based on costs to ebid, plus discouraging thumbnails in listings is bad as it makes shopping for items on the site overall less attractive and easy to grasp. Thats a very serious and fundamental flaw. Thumbnails need to therefore be seriously encouraged, shoppers browsing a list of potential items to buy expect a simple photo and are far more likely to buy if they see one. Sales at ebid would go up if most auctions had a thumbnail, so I dont even think other fee's would have to go up slightly. But bottom line is, thumbnails in listings attract buyers to buy, bringing revenue. Its not a % cost type feature, have no charge, site looks 50x better to buyers, more sales, more revenue.

2. Better html generating and submitting software or online way even. eBid really needs to get at least somewhere near Turbo Listers WYSIWYG HTML editor, and enable bulk uploading, I'm stunned ebid is still so far behind here, its just poor.

3. A better and more automatic system for non paying bidders. Another fundamental thing ebid seem to have not gotten right from the start (strangely as its so crucial) and still havent, again, not really acceptable for such an otherwise professional, good, competent auction site.

4. Importing of feedback, I think this needs looking into, it was possible, now not, unless using a site or whatever. Its a big wall holding back buyers and sellers coming over.

5. I think given a couple of the above, and having witnessed the same simple improvements being requested time after time, ebid should increase theyre headcount by at least one. Make some of the above improvements and others, revenue will increase, and a 25k a year staff member helping making other improvements such as those above will further accelerate ebid in terms of growth and revenue. This is a truly great site, but improvements and growth, were not even in 3rd gear and nows the time to get into 5th, cos this site has the potential to globally grow significantly.

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[just4gfgem]

No Buy it Now, No Marketing, No proper end of auction facilities, pages too slow to load. I don't worry about any issues that need improving as long as their is input from the owners that they are being done. No effort is made to interact with anyone regarding suggestions/improvments, and this makes the site feel stagnant and give no motive for me to stick around. How hard can it be to give a Buy it Now facility? Been asking for 3 months, along with other people, and still no answer, not even a NO. The non-committal, post from Gaz and Mark on Manstomar's thread sounds as if it was posted from one of the Pinks on Ebay!

[uktycoon]

4. Importing of feedback, I think this needs looking into, it was possible, now not, unless using a site or whatever. Its a big wall holding back buyers and sellers coming over.

This is not ebid's doing, it is ebay's. Ebid would be happy to let you import your feedback. Ebay, however, it not happy to let them do so, so you need to petition ebay about it ...

[maroy41]

I voted ten but all the issues so far are valid, my customers from ebay ran back there because they found it too confusing here especially when it came to billing them. I joined on here July and there was only 54 bookshops, now there are over 95, but most of these have nothing showing in there shops, why? I think it's because it isn't clear enough to a new user as to HOW this is done.

[madhatter1]

voted 9 (because my margin is better even though prices are lower) but as stated there are issues to be sorted.

[madhatter1]

No Buy it Now, No Marketing, No proper end of auction facilities, pages too slow to load. I don't worry about any issues that need improving as long as their is input from the owners that they are being done. No effort is made to interact with anyone regarding suggestions/improvments, and this makes the site feel stagnant and give no motive for me to stick around. How hard can it be to give a Buy it Now facility? Been asking for 3 months, along with other people, and still no answer, not even a NO. The non-committal, post from Gaz and Mark on Manstomar's thread sounds as if it was posted from one of the Pinks on Ebay!

agree some what with this statement

[madhatter1]

Out of 1 to 10 how likely would you be to recommend eBid to someone you know.

10 would be a definite recommend.
1 would be a no way José (thanks Buttons)

If you leave a response of 6 or below please leave a one sentence answer as to why you wouldn't. Please do not discuss responses on this thread. It is merely for ONE sentence answers.

If you leave a response of 7 or above
many thanks for voting.

Thanks
Gazza

I hope you read and take note of the comments posted here Gazza & Mark because it's not just your future it's our's as well.

[kengillam]

Nearly 1200 views and only 69 voters, no wonder democracy is going down the pan.

[madhatter1]

Nearly 1200 views and only 69 voters, no wonder democracy is going down the pan.

they muffed it then