posted on July 22, 2001 09:09:29 AM
as more and more of my store items end after 30 days,i will soon have little to none in my store??
if item = zero,what happens to my store?will they feature my store??
this ebay store concept and layout STINK big time!!!!!
i sold 3 items to 2 customers,they must be the most persistent shopper on ebay !!
the store is just like the auction buy it now listing with 30 days shelf life??
at this point,i am asking myself is it worth my time and money to relist old items and add new items??
i am thinking of xmas as come october ,folks will start their shopping.
i have a shop on YAHOO,and there is no comparison between ebay and yahoo shops,but then yahoo is much more expensive.
has anyone heard anything new as to when ebay will start driving traffic to its stores?????????????????
posted on July 22, 2001 09:31:32 AM
I Believe over the months WE all will see big changes in the new Ebay stores and the interest they draw.
Frist this about these stores is that they are being put togeather For the B2B sellers not actually the auction comunity.
What ebay is hopeing is that many auction seller will adopt the store fronts and promote and bring the trafic for when more B2B companies come along to put up there ebay stores.
already IBM is one B2B that already put up a store front and been paying for features and promoteing.
ready a big artical in B2B magzine about the launch of the new Ebay Store fronts very interesting reading, but the only reason they hope auction sellers will adopt the store fronts is to bring trafic to them for the B2B sellers they want to really promote stores to so that when they get there we will have already brought in there buyers .
posted on July 22, 2001 10:46:27 AM
DM3,
thanks for the insight,are you saying ebay is hoping mules (auction sellers) will help bring traffic in for the B2B elephants??
this is a tall order for us mules ,what did we do to deserve this treatment?and how can we overcome this obstacle of no front entrance and no search engine???
as hard as we try,it will be impossible to drive traffic if there is no entrance and no search.
i was hoping for the other scenario,b2b elephants will attract oodles of traffic so we small sellers can pick up some crumbs from the big feast!!
i personally think ebay will be enhancing the store design to be more like yahoo later,as no b2b elephants like to live in makeshift tents,they demand taj mahal living!!!!!!
posted on July 22, 2001 10:55:09 AM
What Ebay is hope is Auction sellers will build the front door in since listing in the store front is only .05 cents they will pay for more Ebay feature.
if you feuture one Item in your store front all your store front shows up in the Auction search
they beleave auction sellers can help build there B2B sales buy getting there buyers use to buying and knowing the stores front exsit.
I dont think there is any way any one can stop this I think over the next few months store fronts will have as many if not more listing and sales as auctions.
after all with the incress in price to Run Auctions $9.95 a month a 5 cents per listing will be hard to resist.
posted on July 22, 2001 01:15:34 PM
Why is E-bay wanting to focus on B2B, after everyone else who focused on B2B got clobbered in the dot com shake-up last year. I think business to consumer is what E-bay was and always will be suited to best.
If I want to do a business to business transaction on the net I would rather do it directly with the company I'm dealing with. I don't need another middle man and that includes E-bay.
posted on July 22, 2001 01:51:42 PM
Whether you will want a store or not depends on your numbers.
If you run less than 10 low-starting-bid auction items a week you might be better off with the auction format rather than try to sell them in a store front for say $9.95
posted on July 22, 2001 02:31:49 PM
i cant really think of any b2b attraction on ebay storefront??
who is the first b??
ibm??
who is the second b?
us??
or the bidders?
if it were ibm versus bidders,thats b2c,not b2b?
if it were ibm versus us the reseller,then setting up shop on ebay creates more competition for us as we all know everyone can be a seller on ebay??
anyway this is almost end of july,so where is the storefront and where is the search??
most of my items will be gone very soon from my shop,i would like to know/
also does IBM have to relist every 30 days??
posted on July 22, 2001 02:41:06 PM
it has more to do With Fix priced Selling The auction venue Dont work for B2B when a business needs something it dont need it next week or next month it needs and wants Now next day.
Fix price allows a person to buy at a fixed price Item paid for by Credit card and Item can be shipped same or next day priority or express mail.
Believe me this is what Ebay is after the Idea of allowing Auction sellers adopt store fronts is to Build up a user base it is predicted that by 2003 fixed price, B2B sales, and direct marketing online will rise to 20 billion $$ while auctions are are perdicted to stay about the same where they are at little to no growth.
WIth the new Ebay stores they are hopeing to enter into all three of these areas of business where growth should be the strongest.
IF the store fronts work out and many big companies are already registering and opening store fronts as well as auction sellers, Ebay will have the big companies and the small sellers Doing what all the auction sellers been saying is imposable selling togeather and all makeing money.
The small or auction sellers can fight this move all they want But most see the Store fronts as the place where the buyers and money will be in the near future and auction as were a slowing of interest sales and growth will be.
posted on July 22, 2001 09:53:17 PM
this is good news as most of us are wearied old bones who are tired of listing and making peanuts.
i agree that auction will not grow,in fact it will shrink as most people realise auction is for rare and one of a kind,not something which just keep coming .
but ebay has to do a lot to its store layout,it has to hire professional to design a truly porfessional looking store,not just slap together some codes copied from the auction programs.
ebay is not invincible,the reputation it has in auction may or may not carry to storefronts.
ibm and the rest of the B2B aside,the allure of a chase and excitement of bidding is lost in a store ,when one walks into a store and see this old dirty piece of something called collectibles,do we really want it buy it??????????? at a fixed price .
posted on July 23, 2001 12:35:06 AM
I really expected something special with the stores,,so plain,,,what i cannot believe is that red TAG...a little shop with ebay logo..a line drawing of a store,door anything would be better..with the word STORE on it..Many people new to ebay would have no clue..
Also...seems you need a magnifying glass to find the link on ebay HOME PAGE FOR STORES..
I feel it should be a big button..if they really want people to see it..better yet design something nice..a box with word store big enough to notice would be an improvement..
