eSeller004
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posted on August 28, 2001 05:05:56 PM new
How about adding some excitement to the tired Store concept and turn it on it's head?
Make all Store listings free forever and every item negotiable! Allow users to haggle prices down as on BargainandHaggle. Why not? It'd give people a reason to check out the stores and participate. 
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MAH645
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posted on August 28, 2001 05:10:38 PM new
A Can of gas,and a lit match with a few sticks of dynomite,and one Powerseller logo.
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jake
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posted on August 28, 2001 08:35:46 PM new
Integrate the store listings into the regular search and put the red toetag beside the store listings in the search results.
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rustybore
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posted on August 28, 2001 08:55:26 PM new
What'll it take to jumpstart eBay Stores???
Ban auctions --- NARU anyone attempting to list an auction, that move would give the "stores" the shot in the arm they seem to need!
I'm kinda surprised ebay hasn't come up with that idea yet myself...
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stockticker
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posted on August 28, 2001 11:35:31 PM new
When browsing an eBay Store last weekend, I was quite surprised that there was no way I could bookmark the store so that it would appear in "My eBay" for later browsing. It would seem like such a simple feature to impliment.
Irene
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whynot
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posted on August 28, 2001 11:38:01 PM new
Whats needed?
Thats Easy.
eBay needs to look at shops completely different than they are.
That means sellers need to be able to customize the look. It means that auctions and stores are seperate within the "store"... Left side auctions, right side stores.. UNder some sort of control would be good. ie: if a seller wants both auctions and store items sure they are seperate in the store but both there. If however they only want auctions or only want store that too should be an option.
We might want to market our own "auction site" within eBay. That is also to say no access to "outside" vendors when a seller is driving their own traffic.
To draw traffic eBay needs to create a "mall". Seperate but attached to eBay. Just like half.com spun off, so should what-all "eBusiness Outlet Stores"...
They need provide services such as a mailing list to buyers via the specific sellers the buyers "subscribe to". So if we get 50 widgets in and eBay wants us to move those via eBay rapid we have a mailing list of prior widget buyers we can instantly move product to.
They need to aid them in search engine submittal, perhaps even an internal mall banner exchange.
In other words eBay needs to create an Online Mall for business sellers where the sellers can sell fixed price and/or auction allowing them to have their own "look", create a mall entrance, drive traffic at it and work to create a true "mall" community. Can make millions of mini-malls if they like, clothes, media, toys, electronics, computers etc.
They could sell it two ways. Places such as CompUSA lets say might want no external advertising and pay this fee.
Small business who wants into the mall and auctions etc. has a choice of pay the larger fee or your site will have ad's to other stores etc.
As it sits now the stores are basically nothing more than a 30 day fixed price sale. Nothing wrong with that but dont expect big results.
Big results come when its organized, is specific business to consumer, branded, pushed and made into a "full" eCommerce solution for all sizes of businesses.
Signed: WhyNot!
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bookart
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posted on August 29, 2001 12:37:02 AM new
If I had an Ebay store, I would probably at this point be looking to hire one of Tony Soprano's crew to light it up.
Just like they did to Artie's restaurant.
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litlux
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posted on August 29, 2001 06:21:19 AM new
I concur with whynot and the great suggestions for improving the ebay stores. I hope ebay reads and considers their free and insightful advice.
I for one would like to see longer listings (90 day, 180 day, even one year!) since I am not sure I will spend the time and effort relisting and rechecking all the entries every month. I sell many of the same items over and over again and can stock a dozen or more so that they are always available.
I have managed to drive traffic to the stores using my auction listings, but in a amateurish way. I would suggest that ebay design several link buttons to choose from, so that I could put attractive links in my emails, my auctions, my other pages to drive traffic still further.
I also think that basic listing should include a thumbnail photo in the store rather than adding it separately at 25 cents a pop.
And they need to get off their duffs and have store search option on the search function pages.
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katiyana
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posted on August 29, 2001 06:23:54 AM new
I'm pushing my storefront listings by a link in my auctions "For individual cards, please visit my storefront". And I"m planning on a discount promotion the last two weeks - 5% off any Storefront purchase - We'll see if THAT helps...
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Pandoras_Trinkets
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posted on August 29, 2001 07:05:47 AM new
FYI this weeks poll is about "As a buyer how would you like to find store items".
60+ % say from the ebay core search.
16% say from the store directory
etc etc
Make your voice heard Check it out:
http://pages.ebay.com/community/index.html
Angela
www.pandorastrinkets.com
-0- it's a beady place -0-
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hwahwahwahwa
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posted on August 29, 2001 07:11:13 AM new
what you folks are discussing already exist in a yahoo shop.
too bad yahoo is not buying ebay or ebay is buying yahoo,otherwise all your talks will come true ,a shopping mall with shops which can drop items to auction.
ebay has a set mentality on auction style sales,it just took some of the programs in its auction system and make some changes to come up with a store format.
it needs to develop something new,a system which is meant for shops,not auctions which will require mucho programming and design efforts.
right now it is just a listing of fixed price items for 30 days,this is not a real shop,since when does landlord come to your shop and remove your merchandise from your shelf after 30 days whether you like it or not??
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Eventer
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posted on August 29, 2001 07:12:29 AM new
katiyana,
I checked w/ebay some time ago & they said a clickable link in my auctions to my storefront was a way cool idea & okay with them.
Since I put in the link & some verbage about checking out the items in the store, the sales have jumped. Storefront sales are now running about 10-15% of my total sales.
I'll have to try your discount idea next. Let us know how it works out.
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katiyana
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posted on August 29, 2001 08:22:09 AM new
I'm curious to see how it works out too. Something else I know a couple of sellers are trying are thumbnail pics of storefront items in their auction listings as part of the clickable link to get to their storefronts - one seller has gotten about 10-12 sales from people seeing the pics of other items and wanting to see more...
Still waiting for FINAL word from Ebay re: the validity of thumbnail clickable links showing images of other items - but since we can't describe the other things available (keyword spamming) - this seems to be a workaround that is working.
Some friends and I are putting together lots of marketing ideas and plans for promoting and pushing our storefronts. While I'm getting NO action on my trading cards in the storefront, my handmade items are flying along quite nicely. 8)
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packer
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posted on August 29, 2001 08:49:53 AM new
I for one DO NOT want all the 1.000's of "store items" intagrated into regular auction "search".
Its a nightmare now paging through all the new stuff listed to get to the old & vintage stuff.
AND...OH PLEASE...3 & 4 pages listed of all the same thing makes me give up searching. I thought that was what "dutch" was for.
But I know what the sellers are doing they are listing one item in every catigory possible.
A seperate search engine is need for the stores.
packer
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katiyana
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posted on August 29, 2001 09:24:31 AM new
If its impractical to include store items in search, I'd love it if they'd put something like "Didn't find what you were looking for? Search Ebay storefronts:" and at least give a visible option to get there for buyers..
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ok4leather
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posted on August 29, 2001 10:54:39 AM new
The stores are just a tired attempt to Jump on the e"store bandwagon. Yahoo stores and many others have already been where ebay is going. Why not just "Dance with the one that brought you" Support and enhance the auction format.
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MaterialGirl
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posted on August 29, 2001 02:12:06 PM new
what you folks are discussing already exist in a yahoo shop.
For the life of me, I just don't understand why eBay just didn't copy the Yahoo store/ Yahoo shopping format. It seems totally ridiculous to create 30 day auctions and call it a store, because that's NOT how people SHOP. A real store would have rocked! Shopping cart, customizable, manageable...
Funny how eBay gets auctions right and stores wrong and Yahoo gets stores right and auctions wrong...
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