Yes I was just pointing out some opportunities for people to sell some popular items.
Which has been done before
Its not really ebid's job to do it. (But I do get Adrumi's supermarket analogy)...
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Yes I was just pointing out some opportunities for people to sell some popular items.
Which has been done before
Its not really ebid's job to do it. (But I do get Adrumi's supermarket analogy)...
My Dad was born in Hounslow!
I am living in New Zealand so it would not be feasible for me to buy them from China or the USA and then ship them back to the USA or the UK.
I do hope someone else...
The other day I wanted to buy something online.
I turned to our own TM here in NZ - nothing.
then I tried ebid - nothing,
Then I saw Amazon - lots
Then I tried ebay - lots
So I had to buy...
I just saw an ebid ad at the top of a Google search for ebid!
But that also means that ebay is making a lot more money than ebid.
Or put it the other way ebid is making a lot less money than ebay.
So it will always have less resources with which to progress.
mmm a lot of people have been asking for variations.
I imagine that this would be a major programming job.
Whilst I agree that Main stream advertising for ebid would be great.
I saw some figures the other day which said that internet advertising is now 50% of the total spent on all advertising. That is...
Yes, its the trends that matter.
Peter
A very refreshing read.
But your final summary is that people should do their own promoting.
But the fact is that most new sellers just want to come here, list some items and see them...
Its all about the fee structure.
If ebid had 10 million in the bank I am pretty sure they would spend some of that on main stream advertising.
The fact is that ebid have locked themselves in by promising seller + members free listings and only 2% fvf fees.
So that probably does not give ebid enough money to advertise.
Maybe new members...
A new tag line would be great.
Joining and selling on ebid is/are not simple so they cant use that.
A new logo would be great
A new name would be even greater.
How can they up their prices when they have not yet joined ?
And if they do join ebid they will not be paying ebays 9% or whatever it is.
I did not read it all as it was quite long.
But well said.
Ebid could start slowly, even in specialist magazines, cars, sewing, craft etc.
And as you build up slowly.
But i still think the key...
I think that most thinking people would not mind paying higher fv fees if it all went to advertising ebid.
It would be better to pay say 3 or 4% if your sales doubled.
But there are some dead...
Really ?
Ebid only gets a couple of hundred new members a day! (so 4,000 sales an hour is not possible)
The reason for the drop in listings imho is that people are giving up selling on line and on...
We all hope that ebay latest move will bring more members and sales.
But as we alll know it never happens
Ebay know how far they can push their users.
The stats that matter are declining at a...
OP
The Platinum listing feature could be good for you.
Continuing on my series of suggestions for ebid to increase sales and members etc.
Number 7 - Show Auction Bids.
Ebid is one of the few alternate "auction / online market place sites" that...
More importantly ebid needs new buyers and sellers.
And it needs it current buyers and sellers to buy more and list more.
But how to achieve this.
Because it is not happening
My series of...
Wow - so,many people reporting over priced items on ebid.
May be it is because it can cost virtually nothing to list on ebid so some sellers can just take a chance and if some mug buys their item...
Well said,
Lets face it an auction site is an auction site.
There may be one small reason why not so many buyers come here, but I'll save that for one of my series.
Yes the OP's idea was a great idea.
And one that comes up about every month.
The trick is finding a way to contact all the old ebid members (probably about one million of them) , and inducing...
This should have been 2 threads!
Going back to the OP.
Yes lets hope some more people leave ebay and join ebid and list some items and sell something quickly so that they will be motivated to...
Great ! well done.
I don't know why people get personal when they comment on my comments.
I have NEVER attacked anyone.
My point is that if somehow ebid had more listings of say smart phones or or drum sets, or...
I love books
And my Dad collects stamps.
When have I ever attacked collectable sellers?
All I am saying is that ebid needs many more listings of other categories to attract more buyers.
There is...
If you don't accept paypal you will miss out on most buyers
There are always bad buyers, but most of think that ebid has less of them.
Yes you are right, ebid needs a lot more variety, it has enough books, postcards and stamps.
(l love books)
Very good maths but...
How do you (or rather ebid) find 100 such people?
And why would they want to list 700 items when they have not done so now ?
That is the real question.