posted on July 4, 2001 07:53:27 PM new
C'mon, is this a serious thread??
You know better. Besides, as mentioned previously, if it can't have an easy to type addy, it doesn't begin to even get consideration to do anything.
There is no comparison.
Popula is ready and waiting, and has some class. As, www.popula.com
Easy.
This is an Ebay thread. Ebay offered free listing day. With Popula, you can list 100 and get it for free.
Or, if you wanted to list 10 with Ebay on that day and get it for free, you did... Or, direct from Popula:
Free Trial Offer!!! As if all this weren't enough, we're so keen for you to give Popula a try, we're offering 10 chances for you to start an auction without paying any listing fee. If you've never listed anything on Popula before, just list your 10 things and then e-mail [email protected] with the words "Something for nothing" in the subject line.
posted on July 4, 2001 08:41:13 PM new
simple as in easy to use or simple as in no bidders around to confuse things?
Plain and simple - I'm staying where the bidders are. Most of the gripes people have with eBay are about selling, and never really affect the bidders (except for outages), so there is really no incentive for them to leave.
Sorry, but I don't want to be the "Pioneer" who puts all his items on some startup auction site, just to watch them sell for next to nothing, or if I raise the starting price up to cover my costs, not get the bids at all.
Just too little too late.
Nuff said.
EDITED TO ADD: I just counted the number of bids on Internet Pioneers:
6.
A whopping six bids, and that is on the entire site.
As I have stated before, and will state again, "Nobody is going to bring down the giant".
[ edited by revvassago on Jul 4, 2001 08:44 PM ]
posted on July 4, 2001 09:01:34 PM new
Did you happen to count the bids at Popula? This is a great site for books, postcards, and other paper items, which is the predominate specialty...something Ebay doesn't do.
posted on July 4, 2001 09:15:57 PM newDid you happen to count the bids at Popula? This is a great site for books, postcards, and other paper items, which is the predominate specialty...something Ebay doesn't do.
Nope, sorry, I don't buy or sell books, postcards, or other paper items.
But I counted anyway.
Not counting the EROTICA section (I am not registering just to count auctions), I counted a whopping 45 bids out of 506 NON EROTICA auctions (I counted the auctions that were not in the EROTICA category)
That is less than 10% of the auctions with bids. That is a lousy percentage.
posted on July 4, 2001 09:58:24 PM new
Sad Every thing about Ebay is about Money most people have forgot the simpler days when buying and selling was just as much about the fun of listing a few items and watching and seeing a few bids and veiws.
The pioneers site has been live just 24 1/2 hours and already someone is trying Compare bid rate to ebay.
actually if you check the site closer you will find there is 83 registered users 90 auctions listed 18 bid some item with multiple bids this is Just the frist full day and even if another auction is not bid on or listed in the next 5 days it already has a 23% sucessfully selling.
other small sites that have been around far longer with more people talking them up dream of a rate even close to that good
not to mention its free, simple and fun alot of people are putting a alot of effort in to this not to shabby for sellers helping sellers do for then selves.
ebay only boasts a 50% sell thur rate and this most will agree is over stated at the least or round out to the next highest percent.
posted on July 5, 2001 05:14:44 AM new
Ebay was, is and, I expect, will be the best if the defination of "best" is where most people can sell more items, in the shortest time for the highest price.
If I need money for food or rent my listings go to eBay.
But a number of their actions since the IPO, when viewed together, give me concern.
I do think that the sellers, the buyers, the online auction industary as a whole and even eBay will be better off when more competition exists in the marketplace.
If I want vegetables today I have little choice but to go to the supermarket. For the future I have the option of planting a garden.
Maybe a garden is not for everybody, not necessarily the most productive use of time and a lot of work but still somehow satisfying for some people.
The nice thing about "best" is that it comes in different sizes, shapes and colors. We're each able to look for and hopefully find which "best" fits our needs.
posted on July 5, 2001 05:17:42 AM new
A new site, or an old site, makes no difference, ebay is where the buyers are, and where the buyers are, is where the sellers have to be if they want sales.
My first "Auction Site" I sold at was haggle.com . They've been around for quite a while ( sept 10th, 1996), and they have considerably more bids than these "new sites" you are talking about, but the final prices are WAY lower than ebay's. I Jumped to ebay in '98 because I couldn't see letting something go for $15.00 that would bring $40.00 on ebay.
It's all about buyer traffic. Get the traffic on another site, the prices will be there.
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