posted on July 8, 2001 07:14:30 PM
at eBay Store's that is! Opened it for the 1st time today and it was quite easy to set up and list items. Its awful similar to auctions but eBay users are used to that kind of set up. If eBay could make a few tweaks to clearly delineate what is a Store item versus an auction item AND draw traffic to the Stores it could be an incredible selling tool!! All it takes is a few stupid improvements like placing the word STORE on the red toe tag so browsers know what the heck it is. The layout isn't aesthetic but they can work on that. But who really cares about appearance in the end as long as items sell in droves!
Every FLD auction item that expired today I relisted as Store items for FREE! Listings run 30 days and they're Buy It Now which is great since nearly all my stuff gets taken with Buy It Now anyway. Who cares if it's an auction item versus a Store item as long as eBay drives traffic to both??? You get your own dedicated Store URL too. Nice! Plus all of your Store Items appear on the Current Auctions page. Again, nice!
Wonder if auction listings will fall dramatically as people switch auction listings to cheaper Store listings (5 cents per listing after Sept. 1 and a $9.95 membership fee per month).
posted on July 9, 2001 01:02:03 PM
I will be shifting my individual trading cards over to a storefront and half.com, and only having auctions for single cards from the newest card releases, and sets from the older sets - hopefully people looking for individual cards will follow the links provided to my storefront or my half.com listings and I"ll get some traffic.
So far my handmade items are getting traffic, but only because I've been getting approvals from online friends on them, who then went over and bought them. 8) But the trading cards haven't had any visitors, probably because no one knows they are there yet.
posted on July 10, 2001 04:41:30 AM
I think we have to promote our eBay stores ourselves for now until eBay starts promoting. We could use our individual auction listings to point people to our stores. Possibly point to the fact that we offer a much wider selection in our stores. You could offer 1 item in your auction listing and tell people there are 10 other variations of the same item or similar in your store. Something like that ought to work. If you get a ton of people visiting your auction listings by featuring them or whatever, if you do an adequate marketing job you ought to be able to peak the interest of a fraction of those individuals to look inside your store. This is a roundabout way of running a large perpetual choice auction using Buy It Now items.
Opened it for the 1st time today and it was quite easy to set up and list items. Its awful similar to auctions but eBay users are used to that kind of set up. If eBay could make a few tweaks to clearly delineate what is a Store item versus an auction item AND draw traffic to the Stores it could be an incredible selling tool!! All it takes is a few stupid improvements like placing the word STORE on the red toe tag so browsers know what the heck it is. The layout isn't aesthetic but they can work on that. But who really cares about appearance in the end as long as items sell in droves!