http://tamebay.com/2007/01/ebay-promise-more-off-site-links-in.html eBay & ecommerce made easy Mon, 21 May 2012 20:27:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://tamebay.com/2007/01/ebay-promise-more-off-site-links-in.html#comment-18677 eBay coming clean about third-party ads? : TameBay Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:34:58 +0000 http://tamebay.pobox.co.uk/2007/01/25/ebay-promise-more-off-site-links-in/#comment-18677 [...] When third-party ads began on eBay, they were about improving the buyer experience: if the buyer’s desired item wasn’t on eBay anywhere (including Shops), they could be sent somewhere else. There is undoubtedly logic in this procedure, and one has to assume that there was also some money in it, because the accountants who are now running eBay’s marketing and site design have decided to roll it out site-wide. [...] [...] When third-party ads began on eBay, they were about improving the buyer experience: if the buyer’s desired item wasn’t on eBay anywhere (including Shops), they could be sent somewhere else. There is undoubtedly logic in this procedure, and one has to assume that there was also some money in it, because the accountants who are now running eBay’s marketing and site design have decided to roll it out site-wide. [...]

]]> http://tamebay.com/2007/01/ebay-promise-more-off-site-links-in.html#comment-13534 Coming soon: more third party ads : TameBay Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:25:08 +0000 http://tamebay.pobox.co.uk/2007/01/25/ebay-promise-more-off-site-links-in/#comment-13534 [...] Several months back eBay announced that adverts for third parties would appear on eBay search pages when there were no other results. They were very keen to emphasise this when there are no other results - but I know I wasn’t the only seller who cynically thought it was the thin end of the wedge. [...] [...] Several months back eBay announced that adverts for third parties would appear on eBay search pages when there were no other results. They were very keen to emphasise this when there are no other results – but I know I wasn’t the only seller who cynically thought it was the thin end of the wedge. [...]

]]> http://tamebay.com/2007/01/ebay-promise-more-off-site-links-in.html#comment-3047 TameBay : If it’s not on your website, find it on eBay Thu, 03 May 2007 14:24:38 +0000 http://tamebay.pobox.co.uk/2007/01/25/ebay-promise-more-off-site-links-in/#comment-3047 [...] What to do with website searchers when you just don’t have what they’re looking for, has been one of those problems that’s bugged me for years. If someone’s searching my beady site for 7mm orange beads, they obviously have a very specific requirement, and telling them sorry, would you like these 4mm pink beads instead isn’t going to help much. Then inspiration struck: if eBay were sending their zero-result searches off-site, then I could do the same thing in reverse. I’d send my customers back to eBay. [...] [...] What to do with website searchers when you just don’t have what they’re looking for, has been one of those problems that’s bugged me for years. If someone’s searching my beady site for 7mm orange beads, they obviously have a very specific requirement, and telling them sorry, would you like these 4mm pink beads instead isn’t going to help much. Then inspiration struck: if eBay were sending their zero-result searches off-site, then I could do the same thing in reverse. I’d send my customers back to eBay. [...]

]]> http://tamebay.com/2007/01/ebay-promise-more-off-site-links-in.html#comment-244 Biddy Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:54:00 +0000 http://tamebay.pobox.co.uk/2007/01/25/ebay-promise-more-off-site-links-in/#comment-244 It's not just limited to searches where there are few relevent eBay results:<br /><i>We'll also be testing placements on a limited number of other search results pages. <br /></i><br />I know it's eBay's site and they can do what they want, but this is bloody cheeky: they're totally undermining their own customers. X-( It’s not just limited to searches where there are few relevent eBay results:
We’ll also be testing placements on a limited number of other search results pages.

I know it’s eBay’s site and they can do what they want, but this is bloody cheeky: they’re totally undermining their own customers. X-(

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