ebay & Paypal’s continued support of blatantly obvious fraudulent ‘buyers’/scammers got me looking at other options, and having worked on a project for many months it won’t be long before i hang up my ebay boots for good. There is a better life outside of ebay, you just got to explore other avenues.

By the time ebay realise it’s the sellers they need to protect rather than dodgy buyers, it’ll be too late. Already sellers are leaving in their droves. May ebay & paypal sink in the poo of their own making.

Sorry! I am not discussing my marketing strategies on an open forum. Rather than criticize me, why not add to the discussion?

I would have emailed you directly, but your comment does not seem to link to anywhere. . .

With kindest wishes
Suz x

The DC4U brand is on eBay, but I have a little venture on Amazon…
Amazon is out performing eBay. I for one am saddened, as I love(d) eBay…
At least on Amazon I can charge P&P, and not be hammered for it,
The best bit, I only pay when I sell something.
Suz x

And on that note I am off out down to the furniture store to buy some new sofas, every sod on eBay wants to stiff me on the carriage for living in Cornwall, well they can bog off

Our sales ratio for eBay/Amazon is 100/3, eBay is ideal for us, tried all the other ones and the results are total rubbish.

I’ve not even had a question on eBid in 2 years, I dont even bother logging on anymore.

But if something else came along who knows, I don’t feel any loyalty towards eBay anymore.

If they stopped mucking around for 5 bloody minutes I might start supporting them a bit more, but as it is I use them purely to drive traffic.

…This is eBays biggest problem by far, forget all the search issues and high fees etc they can all be fixed.

But when your customers are only using YOUR service because no-one else provides a similar service….That is not so easy to fix.

i would be interested in ebays page retention numbers, I bet those are down too

the busty babes may alienate some of your female punters though

More than twice as many people look at youporn.com than look at ebay UK..Facebook and youporn.com (never looked btw, alexa told me ) both use adwords, but I can’t imagine you go to either of them to buy anything…?

although thats got me thinking..get a couple of busty babes sat in a bath tub with my web address at the bottom, that could work,,

EBay have dropped the ball here by forcing their best sellers away to Amazon by promoting low cost, low quality products and sellers.

eBay’s figures may not be as good as Amazon’s if you are an investor but there is still a lot of sales to be made if you go about things in the right way + much more potential to create and move forward your own brand.

Should be intresting to see what happens there, hopefully bring more buyers to the site again!

Stu

A 10p/15c listing flat fee for auctions (no dupes of course).

Then watch traffic as cash starved sellers start to use Ebay to bring some money in again.

Try it and see…

Mark

I would like to see more emphasis on auctions again. That is indeed a strength that Ebay has over everyone.

They should play to that strength.

I love what they have done to the BIN system, but still feel it needs to come down in price.

I think if they slashed auction listing fees primarily, it would bring back the small seller, who would also be the small buyer.

Many perceive Ebay to be expensive these days.

It is easier to get fees out of a happy seller who has just made some money than it is to get fees out of someone who has a genuine fear their item will not sell, and all they will do is give Ebay money.

Ebay need to bring down Auction insertion fees and create traffic on the site again.

Overall, I am please with Ebay as a venue however.

Mark

It has a big relevancy to online selling as it can be used for just that!

I stuck one of our brands on there, did no work to the page really but stuck some pics on it and within a few weeks it had fans!!! lol so I could email them and say.. hey look at this blah blah blah

It’s just another avenue to use and it costs nothing!

Plus Sue is right about people using that instead of mooching around ebay, infact I havent been on ebay in months, probably coz I can’t use it, but went on there the other day just to see what is what and can’t believe how much it has changed and how much bloody advertising there is now!!

Ebay are just becoming another brand thats lost their way a bit and like everything it go’s around Amazon this year, ebay the next and so on just like it does with brands on the high street.

Stu

As for “for under 30s”: though approximately 50% of Fb’s traffic is 18-25, that means 50% of it isn’t. You might not sell much to people in their 20s, but plenty of us do. I wouldn’t want to dismiss either side of the big 3-0 divide.

That’s an interesting point. I’ve always wondered what FaceBook would look like as an online marketplace. People don’t hide there behind aliases. You actually see the person you are dealing with.