posted on May 4, 2004 02:25:57 PM
I think this has been brought up before on another thread but I'll repeat. It would be great if the store items show up in the search. I did have store items come up once when I did a search but have tried it lately and it didn't. I just opened a store and it would really help buyers also to see items not listed in regular auctions.
I did a search in the "stores" tab and some of my items showed but most have no idea, at least I don't think they do, that they can search just stores.
One little perk that I thought would be nice is if Ebay would create a "Virgin Bonus". When a new member signs up, his/her first won auction should result in a refund of the FVF to the seller. If the bidder signed up after the auction was listed, then all fees, including listing, gallery, etc. should be refunded to the seller. Sort of like a commission for procuring a new bidder.
We already get a $5.00 bonus for new members that sign up for eBay and make a bid within a month, plus 10 cents a bid via affiliate links... we usually generate around $25 a month this way which more than offsets our listing and FV fees
Google AdWords also generate a substantial income from our website. Plus we get the odd referral fee from Amazon i.e. there are loads of fees to be earned if you know how.
posted on May 4, 2004 10:28:05 PM
How about this. Listing fee and final price fee should never be able to add up to more then the item sells for. It would encourage more $.01 no reserve items with lower risk.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. B. Franklin
posted on May 5, 2004 02:17:24 AM
Ask them to put BACK the going, going gone.
The drop down BS they got going now has done more damage than good. Its ugle and nearly invisible.
I but a lot of crap on Ebay and I don't care at all about what was just listed. I do not want to place a bid for something with 6 days 18 hours left. I absolutely WILL NOT babysit any auction, nothing any of you people sell is worth a weeks worry nor do I have the time to check up on bids I make with 6/5/4/3 days left.
I only shop for items ending in less than 1 SINGLE DAY! I am not a sniper either. Snipe bidding is a pre-meditated act. I look for things endong ASAP regardless if it has bids or not.....
Also ask them to quit saying in every interview that they maintain an equal playing field for all sellers regardless.........we all know that is a DAMN LIE!
Another thing ask them how much sellers like evalueville pay to keep their powerseller status with a crappy 94% rating as the posterchild and proof of the UNLEVEL playing field.
The new controversial email offers for similar items to losing bidders.
Would it be so God damned difficult to simply send them promoting MY OTHER STUFF in the emails.
Why do that take every opportunity to screw sellers and or destroy moral.....Their cavalier response to criticism adds even more insult to injury........
I'd like to meet AT LEAST ONE SELLER that doesn't mind emails going to all of their losing bidders to promote other sellers crap.
posted on May 5, 2004 09:08:57 AM
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posted on May 5, 2004 08:26:28 PM
Thanks for the opportunity to express my opinion (I usually lurk). I would love to be able to search the mighty ebay closed database for longer than 2 weeks. There is such a wealth of information that ebay has & we are limited to 2 weeks of completed. I'd even be willing to pay a "fair" fee for this additional service. YIKES! Did I say that I'd pay more fees! Yes, I did, I think the research information would be extremely valuable. What do you think?
posted on May 5, 2004 08:50:38 PM
Local...Excellent point. The main reason they limit closed search to two weeks is the sheer volumn of items that are in it, and the stress it would cause on the servers if it were larger. That's one reason I'm in favor of splitting the site between new and used items, each with it's own individual database. Hopefully each would be able to support expanded closed searches. The way things are heading now, with Half and Stores being integrated into the same database, I'm afraid search may eventually become too bulky and slow to be useful and they may even have to shorten or eliminate closed search.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on May 6, 2004 12:58:39 PM
I GOT IT! ... Ask ebay to place the beginning/ending time in REGULAR time [not military] ... like if it MEANS 9pm Pacific, that's what it should read as, instead of 21:00 ... then it would be easier for Central and Easterners to quickly figure, instead of doing twice as much figuring. ...
posted on May 6, 2004 01:22:22 PM
Ain't,,,,and on e bays launch feature,,their begining choice of time is MIDNIGHT!!! So you have to Scroll AAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL the way down to a daylight time like say 6:30 p.m. To place in the start time....How many People list At Midnight?????? Not many I am sure...Noon would be a much BETTER starting point.
posted on May 13, 2004 03:42:14 PM
Fluffy ... when is the "Big Day"? ... i think we're thinkin' you're going to make a big impression on them ... they MIGHT even listen to your list of 'highly suggested' thoughts here.
posted on May 13, 2004 06:37:52 PM
I'd be interested to hear what they say on the NPB/feedback issue, but I can't imagine they'll ever go for that solution ... it puts too much control in the hands of deadbeat sellers who can keep taking money and filing false NPBs, rendering their bidders helpless to warn others except through eBay's own notoriously unresponsive complaint system.
[ edited by msincognito on May 13, 2004 06:38 PM ]
It would be nice to have the option to include closed auctions in the Items I'm Selling section of the My eBay Page, rather than having them drop down to Items I've Sold as soon as the auction ends.
Less scrolling up and down...
So when's the big day? (I'd put a smiley in here but poor smiley's been so excruciatingly bizzy this evening in the other threads I thought I'd give him/her/it a rest!)
