ebay or ebid ?

[martnbev]

Hi, we have been with ebay for around 10yrs now and have had lots of auction sales with good results ... BUT ... the final value percentage fee is now 10% of any sale ..wow.. no profit now and ebay fees have rocketed, ... SO ... have come to ebid and became a lifetime member for £49.99 a few weeks ago ... but cant seem to sell anything at all .. does anyone buy anything on here .. what are we doing wrong ? ... we really want to make this work as want to make a better life on ebid and hopefully make money, ... any ideas as to getting good sales on here, ... we only sell used and collectable stuff

any info much appreciated
martin & Bev

[bluejypsy]

I see only one item for sale. Does that mean you have sold all your stock?
Have you read any of the suggestions that are easily available here from a number of Forum Saints?
Putting a signature on your postings will draw lookers straight to your stores.
Good Luck

[TiasTreasures]

Are you selling internationally? You have only one listing running, but I can't bring it up. Can't offer much help, because I don't know what you're selling (no information on your All About the Seller page), and I can't see anything. Obviously, a good start would be to add a large numbers of items.

I do note that you've only been here a couple of weeks. It takes a while longer here on eBid, patience is required.

[CarnoustieCats]

Run Till Sold means your item will never reach the top of a search - check out the information from Kim and Astral - lots of interesting help available...

[kedo]

Pricing? Do Sgt Peppers LP's really sell for £55? Just wondered because I've got a mint one sitting in my record cabinet.

[somersethedge]

there are 24,197 LP & Albums listed... you have one album listed therefore you have 24,196 albums in competition with you... in short the more you list the more chance you have of a sale...

plus there is nothing on your about me page... which does not inspire people to buy from you...

and you do not have a gallery photo so that is another reason... most people wont bother to open a listing without a gallery photo

[Armstrongs]

Pricing? Do Sgt Peppers LP's really sell for £55? Just wondered because I've got a mint one sitting in my record cabinet.

Yep, if it's an original 1967....and not a later re-press

Yvonne x

[kedo]

Yep, if it's an original 1967....and not a later re-press

Yvonne x

I shall go and check it out!

[truebrit22]

Hi, we have been with ebay for around 10yrs now and have had lots of auction sales with good results ... BUT ... the final value percentage fee is now 10% of any sale ..wow.. no profit now and ebay fees have rocketed, ... SO ... have come to ebid and became a lifetime member for £49.99 a few weeks ago ... but cant seem to sell anything at all .. does anyone buy anything on here .. what are we doing wrong ? ... we really want to make this work as want to make a better life on ebid and hopefully make money, ... any ideas as to getting good sales on here, ... we only sell used and collectable stuff

any info much appreciated
martin & Bev

I fully agree with your comments regarding Fleabay . I have just started listing on eBID after 11 years on Fleabay and it does seem to be slow but there are lots of helpful people out there and given time I think we can make it. Others do, see their feedback scores! My suggestion is keep a few items going on Fleabay and make sure that ,when you sell ,the customer gets a little reminder, with the goods, that you have an eBID site

[happyhammers2010]

I also agree, I have had listings on for about 3 weeks now and so far no sales, If anyone can be of help i would appreciate it . I need to sell and dont want to use fleabay as the fees mean so little profit. Quite honestly id rather give them away than add to fleabays profits. I am going to have a go with the charity auctions as someone suggested that that may be a way to kick start sales and hopefully things will take off soon. Summer is always a bad time for my business as people dont really think about replacing their dinner service during that time its the run up to Christmas that sales take off so im hoping that that is why my sales arent happenning now. For now im going to carry on listing (i still have loads to list)
The forums are really helpful and I enjoy reading them so thanks everyone for your help its nice to know that there are so many friendly people out there who want to help others