posted on March 29, 2004 09:48:02 AM new
Thank you Ebay for Rasing the Fees and Changing the Item Categories.
Because of the fees I decided to try Yahoo and Amazon Listing. and I havent done that bad considering Amazon is Free to List and Yahoo is 5 Cents to List for longer period of times no less.
posted on March 29, 2004 09:49:41 AM new
Howard: Can you tell us what categories you sell in? Just curious.
___________________________________
Have you noticed since everyone has a Camcorder these days no one talks
about seeing UFOs like they used to?
posted on March 29, 2004 05:36:41 PM new
Howard, are you with Amazon Marketplace or Amazon Auction? Whenever I go to Amz Auction it's dead.
Yahoo auction, ditto. When did Ebay raise the fees? For the auctions or for the stores? Recvd an email from them explaining the Half.com transition and the new fee structure which was so convoluted I couldn't make heads or tails.
http://lwright.biz/index.html
posted on March 29, 2004 07:07:03 PM new
Ebay Raised Fees February 1st and about 2-3 weeks ago they changed the catageories to general categories and messed up my Turbo Lister (And Many other sellers as well)
Rumor has it that Jay and Marie are so upset about this, its one of the reasons they have given up (The Category Changes)
I was mad at both occurances and at first thought there was nothing I could do. After all Fee-bay is the main game in town.
I figured I could Give Amazon Market Place and Yahoo a Shot. Since Amazon is free to list no harm done and yahoo Charges me 5 Cents while Ebay charges me 40 cents.
I am not using these INSTEAD of Ebay jsut in addition trying to spread the listings a bit and lower my costs.
Suprisingly I made a few sales on Both Amazon and Yahoo which shocked me.
posted on March 29, 2004 08:25:12 PM new
All I can say to this one is it is a good thing there ARE the other auctions, ebay is not microsoft, anyway , so competition stands a chance of changing policies that too many of US find unfair!
posted on March 30, 2004 12:47:35 PM new
I have been trying to figure out for years just why Yahoo in particular does not try to compete with EBAY on some leval-Most sellers a re aware that they exist but the buyers don't know about them as auction site-so they have to advertise, advertise, advertise- They are well set up and could give EBAY a good run if they really tried-
posted on March 30, 2004 01:18:48 PM new
"They are well set up and could give EBAY a good run if they really tried"
Don't I wish I give them a try every now and then but their listings have dropped to nothing. Last time I looked they had 366 records listed and only 4 had bids
posted on March 30, 2004 01:45:31 PM new
Too bad, if they would put half the resources into that as thier stupid java chat applets, they probably would kick ebay in the a**...
, so competition stands a chance of changing policies that too many of US find unfair!
I give them a try every now and then but their listings have dropped to nothing. Last time I looked they had 366 records listed and only 4 had bids