posted on June 29, 2001 12:13:33 AM
Maybe it's time egreed realized that they would make a LOT more money if they would reduce their listing fees to a realistic amount.
They have priced the listing fees so high people can't afford to take chances on listing when they are not sure of a sale. So, many items that probably would have sold are never listed.
posted on June 29, 2001 06:48:45 AM
There is a web site that tracks listings at eBay by the year, month, week, day, and even hour. I see 1.5 million new listings for the 28th. The double category auctions probably count as 2 new listing each.
Great website ...
http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?EIND
[ edited by bidsbids on Jun 29, 2001 06:49 AM ]
posted on June 29, 2001 07:53:49 AM
Check the NEW listings and you will find a very large percentage are from sellers that usually list 100/1000's of identical items in a "Dutch" auction, but now because it is FREE, listed the 1000's of items as a single auction...
The 'Millions of New' listings numbers are bogus...But, looks good on paper and the news...
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posted on June 29, 2001 01:26:02 PM
Yea 255 auctions for Extreme Power Plus by one seller.I thought you would suppose to run dutch auctions for stuff like that.Doesn't E-Bay pull auctions if you post over 10 auctions for the same item,or did that rule go out the window along with all the other rules sellers break all the time and get away with.
posted on June 30, 2001 04:45:22 AM
Sorry folks - but the numbers don't hold up. As of 29 Jun ebaY had 5144316 auctions - figure a 10% inflation due to free double list and you get a net of approx 4.63 mil aucitons. Last year at this time (no free list day) they had 4.44 mil. THESE ARE EBAYS OWN NUMBERS! -Rosalinda
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