How to advertise on Feebay that Ebid's Here

[kedo]

Obviously not! Well it works for me.

[merlin]

Obviously not! Well it works for me.

lol it depends on how long the peeps have been buying / selling on ebay
and most i have met are well established on ebay so i get a no thanks lol

[kedo]

Works for me, six sales in the last three days.

[damian_steele]

I'd recommend making your feebay listings ambiguous in some way, that's to say leave out important details, be a little unclear etc. The idea is to get the potential buyer to contact you. Once they contact you it's easy. Be an efficient parasite, don't let the host notice you!

Except then you get reported to Feepay for offering your goods outside of Feepay and they boot you out with no chance to appeal.

You have to remember that Feepay don't care about individuals, only profits, so it's nothing for them just to ban people for almost nothing.

[rupert691]

By the way Rupert, did you get a reply from MySpace yet? I remember you had some trouble registering.

Sorry for the delay in replying ArtsBanquet.

I emailed MySpace about the problem I was having creating an account, didn't receive any reply, so had another go (this time viewing throught Explorer, rather than AOL) and all seemed to go well doing this, except for some formating problems with my MySpace page, so I 'cancelled' the account, but will have another go at get it up-and-running (hopefully today or tomorrow).

If all goes according to plan, may I join your group? (Not quite sure how everything works on MySpace, so may need a few pointers LOL!)

Best wishes,

Simon.

[*artsbanquet*]

Hi rupert691,
Sorry to hear you're having problems with your MySpace account. Of course you can join the group. All are welcome. Once you have a MySpace address, let me know what it is and I'll send you a group invite.

[rupert691]

Hi ArtsBanquet,

Many thanks for that!

Will let you know as soon as all is up and running!

Thanks again,

Simon.

[kedo]

Except then you get reported to Feepay for offering your goods outside of Feepay and they boot you out with no chance to appeal.

You have to remember that Feepay don't care about individuals, only profits, so it's nothing for them just to ban people for almost nothing.

Highly unlikely that you'll get reported, there is no perception that you're doing anything wrong. That's because you're not doing anything wrong! I wasn't suggesting you, in a crude way, just offer to sell 'off feebay' i.e. break the rules. What I was suggesting was more subtle.

How about - eg. ambiguous statement in your auction 'I have one of the biggest selections of antique prints of Wales that you will find anywhere'!

A statement like that, in my experience, will inevitably generate questions like -

Potential customer 'have you got one of x place'?
My reply 'have you checked my other listings'?
Potential customer 'what other listings'?
My reply 'since you ask, I have y number listed at z'.

This is invisible and it's extremely unlikely that you will be reported (especially if the potential customer asks you for the information). It's certainly a far lower risk than Red's strategy!

Having said that, yes, I agree you can be thrown off for anything or nothing. The feebay user agreement has just been changed to that effect hasn't it?

[juve1971]

When you thank your customer via packing slip or note, ask them to check out ebid.net. Also if you invoice from anyone other than paypal, you can mention it in the comments section. I hope this works out.