jwpc
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posted on October 26, 2000 05:28:26 PM
With the instability of the eBay site, do you think it is even worth one's time to bother to post on eBay till the site is more stabilized? What 's your opinion?
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onsale
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posted on October 26, 2000 05:32:07 PM
I was just thinking that. If you list now for 10-day auctions, your auctions will end on a Sunday night. The past 2 Sunday nights ebay has been DOWN. I still list every day, I can't afford not to. But I'd like to hopefully have things end when ebay isn't actually EXPECTED to be down...
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jwpc
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posted on October 26, 2000 05:40:23 PM
Well, I keep most of my auctions on Yahoo, which doesn't have a system that is forever crashing, so I don't have to depend on eBay for sales. I only post selectively on eBay when I "hope" the site will be up. Just wondering if there is any hope for the site in the next week?
I don't do 10 days auctions, I hardly have the patience for 5 day auctions...
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jwpc
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posted on October 26, 2000 05:45:50 PM
Well, I see eBay is down again, so I guess that answers my question - back to Yahoo.
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chum
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posted on October 26, 2000 05:50:22 PM
As of 8:55 eastern eBay is dead for me in West PA, but Yahoo is lightning fast. Looks like another great Yahoo night! 
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HOUND
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posted on October 26, 2000 05:54:08 PM
e bay is down here in Ontario Canada as well,,,and has been for quite some time!! I'm starting to wonder if it's worth it myself?
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onsale
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posted on October 26, 2000 05:57:15 PM
From the Announcement Board:
***SYSTEM STATUS***
The eBay system,including View Item and Bidding, was temporarily unavailable from about 17:30 PT to about 17:40 PT. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
Was? Looks like ebay doesn't know the difference between past, present and future.
Ebay WAS down. Ebay IS down. And who knows how long ebay WILL BE down.
[ edited by onsale on Oct 26, 2000 05:58 PM ]
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furkidmom
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posted on October 26, 2000 05:58:59 PM
Well I have tried 4 times to list on Yahoo and lots of different things and not one of the items got a bid, and very few looks. I must not be listing the correct thing, I guess, because Yahoo has been a total washout for me, and not paying for something ou don't sell anyway is still nothing from nothing getting nothing!
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uaru
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posted on October 26, 2000 06:04:27 PM
Yes, it is worth listing on eBay to me. I have begun to avoid peak hours for obvious reasons.
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HartCottageQuilts
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posted on October 26, 2000 06:46:12 PM
Well, the bidders are certainly there. I listed 4 quilts earlier this week and got bid on all of them within 6 hours of listing (one - the only quilt I've ever not sold on the first go-round - was bid on within half an hour!)
Kinda funny. I know the outages have changed MY bidding habits. No more window shopping, no "watching"! I want it, I bid on it right then and there.
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dybr
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posted on October 26, 2000 06:49:23 PM
Hey Folks why the long faces. You all know that the site stability on Ebay is like playing Craps.
Realize this and work with it. Find what sells and go from there. If the stress is too thick, cut your way out and stop the Wine-Fest. Very Few of us do not work hard at what we do when we do this for a living. Make it work.
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lindajean
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posted on October 26, 2000 06:50:31 PM
I haven't been successful listing anywhere but Ebay. I can list 100 items on Yahoo and not get a single bid. The same items will end up with 80% sales on Ebay, even with the outages, so I think it is worth it. I also think the outages have prompted people to bid earlier.
Edited to correct spelling.
[ edited by lindajean on Oct 26, 2000 06:53 PM ]
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breinhold
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posted on October 26, 2000 07:12:58 PM
ever notice everytime there is a problem with ebay messages are posted (about a line or two) that slip in comments like "yahoo lightning fast"????? is this a yahoo message board? or is some partime yahoo employee getting them free advertising. ebay is great because things get bids and sell. we all know about yahoo and where to find it.
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dybr
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posted on October 26, 2000 07:20:05 PM
HCQ has struck on a very important clue for most that Do Not Watch how things change. The Instability of Ebay has been changing the way people use the system. Look at the items you are selling and see how they are being bid upon. I have been watching mine and have noticed that the items selling are not necessarily being sniped anymore. Bidding happens when people find what they want.
Answer to Posted Title: Yes Very Much So.
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fonze
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posted on October 26, 2000 07:29:30 PM
It's so not worth it that I only have one auction going. I've scheduled 200+ to go in on Nov 2. I hope things are fixed by then. I had about 12 auctions end last night, only 3 had winners. Waah!
I've been using someone from AW's tip of going to ebay UK to look at seller lists, it's working well.
Have a nice night.
fonze
[ edited by fonze on Oct 26, 2000 07:31 PM ]
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dman3
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posted on October 26, 2000 07:31:56 PM
Well last week even with the outages and earily this week was well worth posting I had many sales I noticed to night views are up again I fear maybe to late for some auction with less then a day to go though.
but it certinly was worth it for me to list on ebay if I depended on my yahoo sales in the last four months I would have sold 0 ziltch nothing and I have 137 thing listed there that are ending with out bids weekly since august.
WWW.dman-n-company.com
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AnnieJean
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posted on October 26, 2000 07:39:14 PM
fonze: Let me break it to you gently. The fairy godmother is DEAD!
dman3: Keep on truckin'! Sellers like you make eBay sooooooooooooooooooo! HAPPY!
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BlackCoffeeBlues
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posted on October 26, 2000 07:45:50 PM
No kidding. I'd LOVE to use Yahoo as a backup, or even "move" over there completely, but the handful of items I've lissted there have bombed. ONE item sold (for its opening bid, I might add) out of five or six listed, some items ran through two cycles and STILL had no bids, most items had under 10 hits.
I'm no newbie, I know what sells, I wasn't trying to sell anything hard-to-clear. I gave up and moved the same items over to eBay where they sold within their first run, received three or four times the hits, and actually made me some money.
It is sad, because I WISH Yahoo was an option for me. As long as I'm trying to feed myself and my kids off of this auction stuff, eBay is where it's going to have to be.
Sheri
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traceyg
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posted on October 26, 2000 07:46:31 PM
I have lessened the amount of auctions I put up a great deal. I am still working on auctions I am just saving them for another time. The few auctions I have up on Ebay are doing okay, but I knew they would and scheduled them for 10 days. I have a few hundred up at Yahoo now I also have a few websites. So that helps when Ebay is going wacko as it tends to do. My other reasoning for slowing down my auctions on Ebay is I really don't want to give them hunks of money for bad service when they don't really seem to care and are pretty much giving sellers the finger. However, I also don't spend a lot of time thinking about ebay and I don't let them get under my skin. I have always put my eggs in more then one basket and I am glad I did that the last few weeks on ebay. My auctions haven't been bad or grand there, but you never know what will happen there.
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imabrit
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posted on October 26, 2000 08:08:37 PM
Okay here is it
36 Items listed on Yahoo 0 BIDS
Same 36 items on Ebay
26 sold sales so far 430.00
Does that answer the question
Adrian
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HartCottageQuilts
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posted on October 27, 2000 05:21:30 AM
It's so not worth it that I only have one auction going.
Maybe this could be another reason why I'm getting bids: fewer people are listing?
Hmm......nope. Same quantity's being listed now as before the last outage fiasco.
Guess not every seller's backing off listing. It would be nice if they were, though 
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MrJim
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posted on October 27, 2000 05:54:54 AM
Got tired of waiting until 10 or 11 o'clock at night to list and relist auctions, only to find that the site was down or too slow to do what I needed to do.
Started listing all auctions during daylight hours during the week only. Number of last minute bids have dropped, but the percentage of auctions closing successfully has increased more than enough to make up for it.
End result - more money, more fun, less wasted listing fees, less headaches.
Until Ebay finishes "baking" their servers, this is our new routine.
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