posted on May 8, 2002 12:59:51 PM new
"My total FEES for Ebay, Paypal & Auctionwatch come to about 10% of sales. That's the price I pay for having a potential audience of MILLIONS every week browse my merchandise."
That's the price you pay to sell your items wholesale. Those millions of people aren't looking to pay retail. If you had a retail store, your audience is smaller, and your overhead higher but those people are going to pay retail prices.
It's the equivalent of saying, if I sold an iem for 1¢ I'd get a thousand buyers, and if I sold it for $10 I'd get one buyer. It works out the same.
posted on May 8, 2002 02:39:16 PM newI'm sure these same buyers are just rushing out to drive around town to search every antique mall, or resorting to paying admission to a show to find what they're looking for. Then, paying jacked up retail prices, and not get a return guarantee
Why yes, actually. That is precisely what is happening. This is what I'm hearing from my customers at shows. This is what I'm hearing from my dealer friends. In a nutshell, they have been burned too many times, and have pretty much quit buying. Sure the economy has something to do with it. People are MUCH less willing to risk their hard earned cash in a down economy than a booming economy because...well...that "hard earned cash" is harder to come by. Figure it out.
posted on May 9, 2002 04:58:28 PM new
OH GEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!! I stay away from these boards for a while, comeback and still the same old "The Sky Is Falling" post. Ebay is dying, Ebay will fold within a year, this is the end of times for Ebay, Ebay will fall into the ground and suck the whole world in with it!!! If so many of you people here are so frustrated with eBay, why do you continue selling?
I have been in this business now for nearly three years and have just recently went full time with it and my sales as usual, could not be better! You have to be very particular about what you sell, research your main category of interest constantly and most importantly, CHANGE WITH THE TRENDS.
In short:
Great Pictures
Detailed Description
Attractive HTML Template
HOT PRODUCT!!!
With these things in mind you will not go wrong. So to any newbees reading these boards, dont listen to em! Their just trying to scare you off and keep down the competition.
posted on May 9, 2002 06:28:53 PM newIf so many of you people here are so frustrated with eBay, why do you continue selling?
Gave it up a few months ago, and went to a B/M. Sales have increased tremendously.
That one "hot category" will only stay hot as long as nobody knows what it is.
Why don't you enlighten us, mandalore, and tell us what the "hot category" you are selling in is? After all, what would a little friendly competition hurt?
