Ebid will not need to advertise for the next 6 months.

[MagnetsAndHangers]

And now ebay are putting up the fees for their Prostores by 33%.

Annother source of new members for us!

To me, that is grasping at straws.
Cant see that particular move making any difference whatsoever.
Same as todays planned boycott by buyers and sellers - its gone the same way as previous attempts.
If anything, sales so far today are up on previous days this week - could be all the extra advertising that had about today, and people logging into see if there is any difference.

[Juliebabe25]

And now Bonanza are shooting themselves in the foot.

They have made some changes, that many members are not liking.

[MagnetsAndHangers]

And now Bonanza are shooting themselves in the foot.

They have made some changes, that many members are not liking.

I list there too - and usually get all their news emails pretty quick.
Aint heard a thing yet about changes.

[racinraisin]

You can still do 1 day listings for buy it now items?
I think not.

he listed it for 7 days... someone hit buy it now within a day.

Buy it Now doesnt matter how long you list it for. It may even sell within an hour.

thank you

[MagnetsAndHangers]

he listed it for 7 days... someone hit buy it now within a day.



thank you

Already answered previously.

[racinraisin]

yea i was just clearing it up!

[MagnetsAndHangers]

yea i was just clearing it up!

As I said to adruml - it was a fair comment.

Still - it goes to show how quickly items still sell over there.

[racinraisin]

I was just trying to point out that they have no clue what buyers want or look for... and using an example of an experience by someone I know... thanks for the comment.

[MagnetsAndHangers]

I was just trying to point out that they have no clue what buyers want or look for... and using an example of an experience by someone I know... thanks for the comment.

Course they havent.

[hotandvintage]

But if they do not want that market any more why would they care if it moved elsewhere? They don't want that market back so another site taking it over would be doing them a favour. If anything they should be talking up the alternative sites.

They still appear to me to be trying to kill that sector on eBay by a thousand cuts rather than just severing it in one clean action.

I suppose it could simply be that, like most companies that grow to a certain size, megalomania have overtaken them.

Look at it this way, the only thing ebay care about is the share holders. Now ebay are saying the small seller experianece and auctions are dead. This has been their mantra for a long time, since they worked out that they make most of their profits from the top twenty percent of sellers.

So lets say they just shut off auctions and made a cap over the next month, so that if a seller does not reach that amount of money or that amount of sales then they are gone.

They would have to loose around sixty percent of their market or even more in one month,

So even if you ignored the fact that they would suddenly have a massive drop in profit, which they would have to explain to the share holders,they would also have to consider where those sellers would go.

So lets say those sellers all came over to ebid, and began doing successfully what ebad had said was dead, and then a lot of their bigger sellers also start listing on ebid. The company would have a hell of a lot to explain to their share holders and would have another alternative that they had to try and compete against.

They do it the way they are doing it with trickle release and miss information.

A lot of sellers will just fade off and give up.
Others will be fragmented into sites that are slowly being eroded by the missinformation, so that by time there are enough sellers floating around to make a site big enough for competiton, the site is looked at in a way that makes them no threat to ebad.