fluffythewondercat
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posted on February 11, 2006 10:19:43 AM new
I was mousing around eBay, checking out the competition.
Take a look at this auction for a pendant: 8900455664. (Sorry, link would be too long.) Page down to about the middle of the page, where there are four types of chains offered that you can do a BIN now.
Pretty kool idea, I thought. Until I tried to click on one. They're all dead or pointing to earring auctions. I looked at other pendant auctions; same thing.
For Pete's sake, why go to all the trouble to set up your auctions so that you can upsell your customer by adding a chain to her pendant order if you aren't going to take a few moments to make sure the bloody links work?
These people had 4,383 auctions up while I was looking. That's auctions, not store items. I don't even want to think about what they're throwing away on eBay fees.
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cta
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posted on February 11, 2006 10:37:48 AM new
fluff - I went to the auction and checked and the link to the chains being offered and was directed to the BIN chains for $7.99. So it would appear there was a glitch in the system or they have corrected the problem.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on February 11, 2006 11:17:34 AM new
You clicked on the pictures, I'll bet. I was clicking on the caption below the pictures.
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MAH645
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posted on February 11, 2006 12:19:42 PM new
I clicked on the description too, it take you to gold earings. I really don't care for all that tons of bull you have to read though and look at. This would not be a good format for buyers in Kentucky. It would do nothing but confuse them and they wouldn't buy anything.
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cta
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posted on February 11, 2006 12:48:55 PM new
You're right fluff, as usual  ! Clicking on the pictures does work, the caption links do not.
I would also agree with MAH645 - too many policies, links, etc. on their pages.
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fenix03
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posted on February 11, 2006 12:58:20 PM new
Well, dispite the mistakes in the links and the overly wordy terms - I like it. May have a toborrow an idea or two.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on February 11, 2006 01:05:26 PM new
Yeah, I've tried to read through one of their pages several times but I get tired and give up.
There's no law that says you have to put every single policy on your auction pages.
I've been reading their feedback -- 6,000 positives in the last 30 days, yikes! -- and they seem to have some confused buyers. One person thought she was getting yellow gold earrings and left a positive even though the item arrived in 'white gold'...however, it says 925 sterling silver right there in the auction.
These guys have "only" about 12,000 unique feeback but have gotten 6,000 in the last 30 days...must be a major sales push. Or something.
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hwahwa
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posted on February 11, 2006 01:30:28 PM new
I bot a 14k gold chain once on Ebay.The seller seems to be a direct importer/wholesaler,and one morning I woke up and the damn chain broke!
I exchanged it for a different chain from the same seller and it broke again?
I have never known any gold chain which breaks??
/ lets all stop whining !! /
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fenix03
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posted on February 11, 2006 02:59:34 PM new
Buy a chain that is not paper thin or that is well made or... remove your cheap thin poorly made chain before going to bed.
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neglus
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posted on February 11, 2006 03:47:00 PM new
I agree that the listing is kind of "busy" but there are some good ideas like the navigation bar on the left. They may be be in violation of ebay keyword spamming regs though.
I wonder what happens when you checkout on their website - do they upsell at checkout? It was hard to find a link to the website on the "me" page (It was in the banner ad). Busy folks!
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fenix03
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posted on February 11, 2006 04:25:28 PM new
Neglus - I thought keyword spamming to BUT - those are graphic link buttons on that left side bar.
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MAH645
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posted on February 11, 2006 04:58:38 PM new
I just wanted to say I love these types of threads, it really helps me to see what other sellers think about different selling formats. Thanks Fluffy for your post lately.
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tradersjones
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posted on February 11, 2006 06:00:21 PM new
If you click of any of them now, a message opens that says they had a big fire in their warehouse today and they apologize for having to close all their auctions on such short notice.
Well, that's one way to cut down on the competition, I guess, eh Fluffy?
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on February 11, 2006 06:15:23 PM new
It wasn't easy to do on such short notice. Do you know how hard it is to get from New York and back in 6 hours?
In all seriousness, the timing of this "fire" is pretty darned interesting.
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fluffythewondercat
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posted on February 12, 2006 07:48:24 AM new
Here's another competitor with feature-filled pages. (Though I think the centered lines are a very bad idea.)
8900861046
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[ edited by fluffythewondercat on Feb 12, 2006 07:50 AM ]
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fenix03
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posted on February 12, 2006 08:22:20 AM new
The centering is bad & the tables are ugly and look amatuerish. Nowhere near as sharp and clean as the fire sale auctions 
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neglus
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posted on February 12, 2006 08:31:42 AM new
The "me" page with link to the website for the sellers with the fire is down as well. That will be one Mell of a Hess to clean up!
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toasted36
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posted on February 12, 2006 11:56:09 AM new
never mind
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fenix03
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posted on February 12, 2006 12:02:17 PM new
The newest auction I could find was listed friday. The one you bookmarked is a 7 day auction that ends today.
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toasted36
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posted on February 12, 2006 12:04:32 PM new
thats why I said never mind fenix03...noted it was 7 hours not 7 days after I posted. They really need to pull those auction too thou if they had a fire
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fenix03
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posted on February 12, 2006 12:06:18 PM new
I was posting while you erased your post.
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toasted36
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posted on February 12, 2006 12:11:30 PM new
What is a TOASA Seller ? Anyone know ? I'm seeing that a lot over at overstock....is it something like being bonded ?
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