Ebay has a lot of incentives for sellers, the free listings for life, the low flat $1 featured upgrade fee and 2% fvf/gallery fee are nice and dirt cheap compared to greedebay, but these incentives are moot without BUYER TRAFFIC.

One of the biggest complaints I see is ebid has slow traffic. This means that buyers are not really finding ebid. How can we make ebid more VISIBLE and appealing to buyers?

Another issue is the convenience factor, It seems the majority of active ebid users are sellers, not buyers. How can we get potential buyers from greedebay and google searches to run through the hoops and sign up rather than just searching on greedebay for a similar item?

The third issue is the payment hurdle: paypal makes it very clear that they do not offer the same "protection" for buyers off of greedebay, furthermore they also have taken agressive sanctions to people who are selling on ebay competitor websites. With such unethical business behavior by PAYPAL how do we get away from paypal, yet make it feel "safe' for the buyer?

Any contributions welcome