I go to the toilet or make a cuppa , read the paper if an ebay ad or any other ad comes on the TV.

our ebay fees are often £1000s and worth every penny, in fact they are ridiculously cheap compared to some bricks & mortar auction rooms

For you maybe, good luck to you.
Do you get ebay discounts?
But for the small to big sellers who IMO ebay will not want once they have evolved into an Internet site, sales have taken a downturn, ebay are no longer viable as they were in their heyday.

Geographic sales, New search as killed selling on ebay for a lot of good smaller sellers.
I do not see the point of throwing money at ebay in relist fees, when my items only seem to be seen by buyers in specific parts of the country.
New search is making it nigh impossible for potential buyers to see ALL the items sellers have paid to have listed on ebay.
Russian Roullette comes to mind, will they or wont they be found?

Any of the ebay brigade like to comment as to why -
Some Power Sellers have been given 2 months grace in which to get their accounts etc in order, yet some smaller sellers with a minor ingringement have been immediately sanctioned.

ebid could come close for less I would be delighted to use them
but its not sellers ebid needs, its buyers.

How many times have I seen posted on the ebay forums, buyers will go where the goods are.
Well in my case buyers are finding my items on ebid, paying a good price.

Admittingly sales on ebid are not wjat they were on ebay in its hey day, but then sales for a lot of sellers have become more or less non-existent, or selling for a poor price on ebay.

By selling on ebid I actually am making more of a profit.
No listing fee.
No relist fees if the items does not sell,
Cheaper payment services can be offered e.g Google check out.
More fun listing on ebid, less time consumming

No spending more time in trying to keep up with the continous changes ebay make.
Okay I know a buisness as to change, keep ahead of the times, but the amount of changes on ebay makes your head spin.

Why dont they evolve into the Internet Mall they want to become, get it over with.

what category are you listing in please?

It would be easier to ask what category I do not list in, if its not nailed down in my house it will be found on Ebid.

This is the chicken and egg thing – read any thread about ebid and sooner or later someone will say “What I want to buy is never there”.

I’m not going to try to tell you that ebid is the best thing since sliced bread, but ebay, which used to be a place where I had good and growing sales, keeps moving the goalposts. My sales didn’t decline: They dropped off a cliff. I still list there but for me it wasn’t worth the effort or expense of regular listings. At least on ebid, if I don’t sell, I don’t pay. I’m one of those who has been upgraded for free each time a new fee level was introduced so I can’t personally comment on the lifetime fee, but several new sellers who post on ebid’s forum say that they have saved that subscription within a couple of months. Who knows how many others don’t bother to post or even visit the forum?

if ebid could come close for less I would be delighted to use them
but its not sellers ebid needs, its buyers

I totally agree – I am not defending the NPB rate, which is a pain wherever it happens but on ebay you would have lost your listing fees. Have you reported the npb to ebid? You will get your FVF refunded and, if the buyer does it more than twice, he will be removed from ebid.

The company is a private one so no publicly quoted shares and I agree that the contact details leave a lot to be desired but the email response to problems is personal, almost always swift and they actually read your email before replying.

I think that the staff levels at ebid are higher than is publicised – there is an impression that it is two owners + one member of staff but I don’t believe it for one moment.

cost to converstion on ebay is horrendous lately, ebid nothing.

both pretty poor though

Personally I’d have look at the feedback and decided that before biding and wouldn’t be a NPB.

Does anyone have any idea how big ebid a company runs ebid? Its always had the look of a part time business run out of someone’s bedroom. The fact the only address (quite hard to find too) published on the site is a a MailBoxes Etc mail box seems to support this (isn’t this illegal too?).

I’ve been on ebid since 2003 (ebay did something annoying then too.. can’t remember what it was). Until recently I sold perhaps 3 or 4 items per month and I only really listed because I don’t like monopoly.

Since the last change, I have been listing more seriously and I’m selling 30-40 items per month on each of two accounts. My fees have yet to break the £2 barrier for a month (and that is adding the two bills together).

No, it’s not ebay but unsold items cost me nothing, I can afford to list items that may take a while to find a buyer and autorelist saves a lot of my time.

Advertising? ebid have concentrated on banner ads online, which generate steady traffic flows. Listings with a BIN and long enough to run are uploaded to Google shopping. Over half my sales this month so far (23 on one id and 29 on the other) have been to newbies which suggests that something is working.

Neil H, you had two NPB for laptops on ebid? Your feedback there? Zero is it? Well, would you buy a laptop from a zero rated seller on ebay? I wouldn’t!
Like all sites, ebid has a problem with scammers but they are much quicker to remove such people AND they prevent further sign-ups by the same person far more effectively than ebay. I am one of the very few people you will find on there with two ids and that is because one of mine is entirely for charity and they have let me have two because of that.

The blog idea.. Shall I do it? I’ve been thinking about a blog somewhere.

.. but that would get the backs of all the folks who have paid a lifetime membership.

I build my fees into my ebay pricing, so there is no incentive to list on a site that is going to cost me money and have hardly any sales for the foreseable future. I can do that on my own domain for free.

What is the sell-through rate on eBid?

#27 apparently the ebid listings are uploaded to Google Base so that’s probably why they appear a lot in searches.

And I didn’t even have to pay the £49 lifetime membership, I was a member so long ago that I got it for free

#18 For ebid listings I just copy/paste the html code for my listings from Turbo Lister, listing done in a few seconds no problem. And no I don’t sell at barmy prices, I use pretty much the same pricing as I do on ebay. (maybe that’s why I don’t sell an awful lot LOL)

As a buyer though, when I do check ebid, I rarely find what I want so it’s back to ebay.