posted on June 30, 2001 12:34:36 PM
I am getting a pain in the rear because E-Bay has some guys who read every auction you post and at a whim removes the auctions because you have violated their policies. Auctions are a great way to build your business, yet you arent allowed to adverisie your business on their site. The only way around this is to directly e-mail the buyer and let them know all the products you have for sale. People have built links to their home pages where you can find other stuff for sale. How long will it be before Big Brother comes along and does away with those links also? How come they still let us have a link to our Storefronts, where you can list additional items? I have recieved mailings from PayPal telling about E-Bay inserting links to BillPoint on the re-listings. Big Brother again? Its time for another Auction Site to give E-Bay a run for its money, the problem there will be getting people to find out about the site.
posted on June 30, 2001 04:26:26 PM
I'm getting a pain in the rear because my local police office has some cops who sit in their cars at the edge of the raod and watches every car that goes by and on a whim gives a ticket because you have violated the speed limit laws.
And now you tell me ebay is doing basically the same thing!
Sheez, whats wrong with the world anyway when people are forced to obey the rules!!!
posted on June 30, 2001 04:59:14 PMMaui, darlin', you need to hear about Gegy.com. Beta testing started today for 2 weeks. Official opening will be sometime later in July. Some of us are very impressed with what we see so far. CHeck out the on this site (Other Auctions), the discussions on OAUA, and Gegy also has a forum. A competitor of AW also has a temporary Gegy forum.
They're funded, they have other funding lined up for later, they have a 7-figure ad budget for this year to target BUYERS, their CEO was a PowerSeller, and he means business! Most impressive of all, he's listening AND acting on ideas, suggestions, complaints, criticisms -- and the site isn't even open yet.
Yes, yes, yes, it's time to give ebay the heave ho. Gegy isn't the only game in town, but it looks to many of us like the "mostly likely to succeed." I'll also be patronizing SYI I think, but Gegy comes first.
posted on June 30, 2001 06:15:47 PM
Heh Clever Girl, I have already checked out Gegy and signed up for the Beta testing. Now we have to find out if Auction Watch is going to support this newest site. And for all those out there who say "rules are rules", I still say that E-Bay is just like having a "Big Brother" watching over you. They could give you a warning, and the time to makes the necessary changes without just yanking the auctions that have taken hours to create, How's that for a suggestion?
