Originally Posted by
wolfsheadbooks
Actually, you might be on to something there.
Remember a small provincial town on the Welsh border, called Hay-on-Wye ?
It was dying a slow death until someone had the brainwave of making it what was effectively the World's biggest bookshop. Now the crowds flock in, there's literature festivals, the whole lot. And visitors, although primarily there for the books, also buy other stuff.
Think of ebid as Hay-on-Wye. Maybe if a decision was made [at the highest level, I mean] to advertise the books aspect, with a view of targeting book BUYERS everywhere [book sellers will find there way here anyway - as I did - because we NEED to find new markets. Most buyers wont bother to search around beyond *bay, without a push].
So turn eBid into the books capital of the internet and make every effort to drag in book buyers, who are also people who will buy other stuff that they might otherwise have got on other sites.
Just an idea.