Comments on: Third party ads on eBay UK item pages

By: Whirly

Whirly — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:43:45 +0000

FFS Norf , u bloody traitor!

By: Gerry007

Gerry007 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:19:05 +0000

# 22 & 24

Now, now Boys.

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:07:54 +0000

Curly! Curly! NAH na NAH na NAH na

By: Store your stuff !!

Store your stuff !! — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:04:51 +0000

I wonder how much more of this treatment sellers will take?

By: Whirly

Whirly — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:19:24 +0000

Oi!! Biddy, if you call me Curly again you won’t have to worry about blocking me, I’ll take my stuff and leave ,,,,,forever lol

(don’t all cheer at once will you)

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:55:13 +0000

I think they recruit ebay account managers from the Edinburgh fringe

By: formercanadianplatniumpowerseller

formercanadianplatniumpowerseller — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:16:07 +0000

#11 Hate to go against the trend then but iâ€™m making more money than ever and have no intention of closing my account.

Make the money while you can as I am sure ebay will create a policy that makes it difficult for you as well.
You might also want to start selling elsewhere while your sales on ebay are great.
I had all my eggs in one basket ( ebay ) and now I am looking at bankruptcy.

I am not sure if you are a UK Seller – but US and Canadian Sellers are having tremendous hardships with the ebay.com and ebay.ca changes.

Best advice I can give to anyone selling on ebay is to keep yourself aware of any future changes and do not always rely on ebay to tell you about them.

Network websites like this as well as http://www.auctionbytes.com etc and try to stay ahead of ebay.

I had an account manager at ebay and even they never told me of things that I found out from 3rd party websites.

Best of luck and I am glad to hear you are making money on ebay!

By: Sue Bailey

Sue Bailey — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:42:23 +0000

Back to the pool.
Watch it, Curly, or you’ll be blocked from commenting til you’re back in Blighty

By: whirly

whirly — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:36:48 +0000

@north

Back to the pool.

By: Gerry007

Gerry007 — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:20:09 +0000

#16 katakitty

Got any space, I’ll bring a big bag of nuts.

By: katakitty

katakitty — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:23:50 +0000

Just when I thought it was safe to come out of the water ! I take a few weeks off, just starting to get some listings ready for my mid September start up and all hell break loose.

I can quite truthfully say that buying anything on eBay has become an absolute marathon nightmare. I want to search for an item, find it, look at it and buy it or not. I don’t want eBay to give me a list of suggestions, I want to be able to see a simple listing without adverts for something else, surely that is not too difficult.

And as for checking out completed listings well they have just become a total mess.

How anyone actually successfully buys anything on eBay is now beyond me.

Gosh that’s a bit of a whinge for a Bank Holiday Monday, I think I might hibernate.

Katakitty

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:15:38 +0000

cant quite put my finger on why I dont like it ,
its uncomfortable,
just a little sleezy, and lacking integrity

By: david

david — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:44:12 +0000

presumably only the big guys will have their ads placed in prominent positions? Like Amazon, for instance. Or Google Checkout.

By: Sue Bailey

Sue Bailey — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:15:05 +0000

“nice banner at the top” = easy to ignore, Richard. There have been numerous studies showing that most people can ignore banners at the top very easily – hence intrusive advertising in the middle of the page is the way forward if you want clicks. (I should stick an affiliate link to somewhere in this comment, really ]:) )

By: faculty-x

faculty-x — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:11:40 +0000

I find this kind of un-linked advertising far less intrusive than the keyword sensitve sponsored adds, although why they feel they need to plonk it in the middle of a page is anyones guess, it just look lost there, whats wrong with a nice banner at the top ebay?

By: Super Max

Super Max — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:54:11 +0000

#10 ‘The amount of sellers that I have been in touch with ( over 2500 ) in the last 3 months are ALL losing money and/or their selling accounts.’

Hate to go against the trend then but i’m making more money than ever and have no intention of closing my account.

By: formercanadianplatniumpowerseller

formercanadianplatniumpowerseller — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:07:27 +0000

This is another ridiculous ebay idea/policy.

Years ago I had asked my account manager at ebay if I could sell advertising space on my listings and ebay replied – definitely not as it would violate the user agreement.

Ebay continues their downward spiral and taking all of us with them.
How can this be good for any economy in the world is beyond me.

The amount of sellers that I have been in touch with ( over 2500 ) in the last 3 months are ALL losing money and/or their selling accounts.

Good going eBay.
Hurt the ones that built you up.
Idiots.

By: Henrietta

Henrietta — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:24:36 +0000

First smile of the day, thank you northumbrian!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:12:28 +0000

When I use to hire a stall table at Camden Market I would not have been too pleased if someone came along and put their wares on my table!

If I have a B&M shop, I wouldn’t expect another shop to come and put their flyers all up in my windows.

If I buy and pay for a page on ebay to sell my wares, who are ebay to then go and allow someone else to also list their item on the page that I have paid for?

Either don’t do it, ebay, or give me free listing and free FVF to accommodate your new, obviously more important cuckoo customer.

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:45:10 +0000

HELP

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:37:49 +0000

Who cares at this stage!

A few years ago I would of been concerned.

Ebay is now just a dumping ground, I’ve even had a guy from the ebays board room admit this to me, over lunch recently.

If ebay is still you main source of income then you need help!

By: Gerry007

Gerry007 — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:24:49 +0000

Having just watched the Olympics london 2012 concert on BBC1, the thing that smacks you in the vision stakes, is the VISA logo on the head of the stage.
It appears that corporate Uk is all about sub 2nd advertising. It’s designed to implant it in the brain somewhere, & suddenly when it’s triggered (ie; when you see a similar logo, somewhere else) you remember where you 1st saw it.
Freaky. we are all being taken over…………………………..

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:21:51 +0000

So first they have the cheek to charge a lot more for listings, and then they want to put other people’s adverts on them? I would expect to get my listing for free it it was to be used for advertising someone else’s goods! But I don’t suppose that will happen.
Another nail in the coffin.

By: Bunchy

Bunchy — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:44:03 +0000

Personally I tend to tune out this kind of advertising, the net is choc-full of this stuff and I make a point of never clicking or reading. To me, it’s not there.
Whether my customers do the same I have no idea and that’s the important part.

Like Sue, I have spotted supplier’s adverts popping up in the paid for links on the bottom of ebay pages.

Maybe those who abhor this superflous advertising will migrate to private shopping venues?

By: Gerry007

Gerry007 — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:33:24 +0000

If ebay are to put third party advertising on an indivigals listing, then surely they should pay the seller for the privilage of ”click revenue’.
After all if the listing was not there then they could not highjack the fact that a buyer has clicked on that link, because he/she wants to look at what that seller is selling.

We as sellers should be given the opportunity to agree/disagree with allowing OUR paid for listing space to be used by a third party, paticularly if we don’t have any control who they are.
We are afterall responsible for the listing content & description.What would happen if a person clicked on the 3rd party link & something went wrong, who’s responible
^
I mean, I would object most strongly to having an advert for a bank or political party on my listings.
WE need to be given the choice (our choice), just like when you tick or don’t tick the box on many online application forms, WE must have a choice to agree or don’t agree.