Comments on: Your biggest ever competitor is coming to eBay UK

By: Cambridge_Blue

Cambridge_Blue — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:57:21 +0000

An interesting observation indeed from Jimbo!
There is an aggressive move that Buy could make that would be to effectively takeover eBay so they could compete head to head with Amazon but effectively own their own route to market in the US and overseas.
Would require a significant amount of leveraged money and a lot of cohonies but the play (no pun intended) is there to be made by an ego driven player at Buy.
The timing is problematic at present and perhaps not right now but in the future this could make a very attractive proposition with money to be made by all concerned – apart from the sellers and buyers of course.
The Hoe being a true believer bainite has no emotional attachment to or investment in eBay as a business at all – if the numbers on offer from the banks and hedge funds stack up he will take the money and run.
Just like most of us really
You did remember to get your own website up and running didn’t you….
pip pip

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:28:00 +0000

Is “Buy” the Cuckoo in eBay’s nest?

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:49:10 +0000

On the USA site yes it is.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:46:54 +0000

http://tamebay.com/links

About half way down.

By: James Kite

James Kite — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:45:29 +0000

Buys ebay name is BUY if I recall correctly

By: buriedbybooks

buriedbybooks — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:24:18 +0000

My problem with Buy.com (aside from the whole free listings issue) is that they violate eBay’s anti-spam policy.

They’re in it for customer acquisition, not sales. They entice buyers to purchase from them, then spam buyers with email directing them to their main site.

And, of course, multiple reports about this practice are ignored.

By: Randy Smythe

Randy Smythe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:53:53 +0000

LOL! Sorry, have I been away so long?

I’m a former eBay seller (Glacier Bay DVD) turned blogger (MyBlogUtopia.com) turned Buy.com Merchant Evangelist.

I started at Buy.com in January of this year to help grow the 3P Marketplace business.

By: Lino

Lino — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:36:52 +0000

Hi Randy, 1st question, who are you?

By: Randy Smythe

Randy Smythe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:13:38 +0000

@Leo

At present, we only have the 3P marketplace available in the US and that is only open to US based merchants.

We will announce when we launch marketplace through our International sites.

I would be happy to answer any questions about the Buy.com marketplace.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:01:16 +0000

Sue, probably like the rest of the monster sellers on Amazon, it’s a list uploaded blindly, probably they’ll buy from someone else who happens to have it listed, hence the rediculous price. Take a look on Amazon and you’ll find several monster sellers that list stuff for stupid prices they don’t actually have.

I’ve seen it happen with specific CDs where I know for a fact I’ve had the entire stock left directly from a label. As soon as I stopped listing it on Amazon there’s automaticaly finish. The trick is to take it off, wait for their systems to remove there’s and add it right back in.