Comments on: Amazon bucks trend : Q4 sales up 18%

By: PETE

PETE — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:00:38 +0000

As a (very close to being an ex)ebay seller it is definately time to get away from the sinking ship ebay!!!!!

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.

By: kalop

kalop — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:30:58 +0000

Just Only December 2009, Amazon sell a lot of the electronic products at the black friday with a lot of income.

By: Suz

Suz — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:22:39 +0000

Hi Andy
Thanks for clicking though,

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

By: Suz

Suz — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:20:21 +0000

See below

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:02:31 +0000

#27 So why does your domain (dc4u.co.uk) point to your ebay shop? And why do you offer free postage on ebay when you don’t have to? Surely if Amazon is doing that well you should at least be directing to your own domain traffic to Amazon? Or am I missing something?

By: Suz

Suz — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:42:31 +0000

Hi All
Went to a small business mtg on Thurs.
I spoke to thirty + small businesses.
Not one of them had shopped on eBay.
But most had shopped on Amazon…

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

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:06:34 +0000

try living in Scotland, they think they are sending to Latvia or Estonia

By: Whirly

Whirly — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:25:55 +0000

#24 It definately suits certain products and certain people, my mum wouldn’t dream of using eBay, Amazon everytime for her.

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

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:18:05 +0000

Quite a few of my family and extended family , are nutty professors, Educated fools,
Politics, Newspaper editors,
Barristers , Medical researchers etc,
they buy books from Amazon for fun, they dont even look elsewhere, it never enters their mind to use ebay

By: Whirly

Whirly — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:57:49 +0000

#21 Thats a good point.

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.