posted on August 11, 2006 07:08:08 AM new
the stores that are dropping like flies. I posted the link the other day to be able to inventory the stores. I just went to check on current status as 2 more of my friends closed their stores this week.
if you try this link: http://stores.ebay.com/_W0QQsrtZsQQtZlw
they have indeed changed it. You can not verify anything now.
I am sure that feebay reads this boards as well as the others to review what the sellers are saying. What little weasles!!!
mama
posted on August 11, 2006 07:42:03 AM new
Oh Good, I couldn't bring up the link after several attempts. I thought for sure feebay would do something as we are getting close to the 22nd.
mama
posted on August 11, 2006 08:59:54 AM new
It took several attempts, Mama, to get the link to open. Prior to finally getting it, I had several "Timed-out" and "Changed-URL" notices.
posted on August 16, 2006 08:14:00 PM new
On 26 July I checked and saw there were about 8670 pages (this is a mean average as there were higher and lower hits).
Today I see there about 8570 pages. Hits over several tries ranged from 8531 to 8610 pages.
Not sure how many pages there were prior to the big announcement, but for this time period feebay is down, say, 100 pages of stores - about 1.2%.
Not even a drop in the bucket for the big bucks feebay earns, though I've no idea what kind of sales numbers these closed stores managed. Unless there's large numbers of sellers out there waiting until the last minute, it looks like most will hang onto their stores.
figures edited to add in the 25 stores per page factor for calculations (thanks mike).
[ edited by bcpostcards on Aug 16, 2006 11:52 PM ]
posted on August 16, 2006 08:56:23 PM new
Might want to redo your math. That's 25 stores per page times 100 for a total of 2,500 stores. 2,500 X $15.95 = $39,875 X 12 months is $478,500 per year.
1 out of 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Take a look at your 3 closest friends. If they seem alright, you're the one! - Kyle Stubbins, CMS
posted on August 16, 2006 09:56:03 PM new
Not so long ago in a galaxy not at all far away, two close friends worked in the same small department of a vital high tech company.
In fact, these two friends were the entire department.
The high tech company was bought by an East Coast concern, who promptly instituted a dress code, brought in punitive office policies, moved the friends out of their offices into doorless cubicles, and started getting rid of other people they considered dead wood. Nary a day would go by that a memo wasn't issued from East Coast HR about someone's termination.
The friends became livid about this situation. It was all they could talk about for months. They knew there were no other people in the organization, East Coast or West, who were trained to do what they did.
So one day, Friend B submitted his resignation, much to the surprise of Friend A. And then B waited. And waited. And waited.
What B did not know was that Friend A lacked the cojones to walk out as well and would tolerate any and all working conditions in order to keep his job. Oh sure, he groused about it, big-time. But he could never quit. And he didn't.
Friend B was unemployed for 15 months before he found another job. He even contacted his old employer in the interim, to get his old job back, only to be told there were no openings. Seems they were getting along fine with just Friend A.
The moral of the story?
No matter what anyone says or how widespread dissatisfaction seems to be, make the decision that makes sense for you and you alone.
posted on August 16, 2006 10:22:13 PM new
fLUFF has a point well-taken. I have worked in sales and marketing management in high tech firms as an employee, reseller, and vendor. Never have I felt more out-of-control or out-of-the-loop as I do now. What will they do next that affects my income? How will I adjust to it? How should I model my business plans to sync with their objectives? What are their objectives? The current promo (which I have participated in) reeks of a drive by a direct report (marketing executive) to Bill desire to make his bonus.
[ edited by pixiamom on Aug 16, 2006 10:24 PM ]
posted on August 17, 2006 12:01:50 AM new
oh yeh, DUH It took a while for me to compose the post and I'm not sure if it timed out on me or if I accidentally hit the "clear fields" button by mistake, but the message didn't go through the first try and I had to start over from scratch.
Now a little po'ed, I rushed a little too much and then missed the 25 stores per page part even though I had done it correctly earlier. The math was good mike, the error was I just missed the stores per page factor, but I did miss it.
posted on August 17, 2006 06:43:30 AM new
Don't feel bad. It happens to me all the time. They call them senior moments.
Another thing to take into consideration is all the additional money they will missing in addition to the monthly subscription fee's. All the listing fee's, gallery fee's, FVF's, etc...
1 out of 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Take a look at your 3 closest friends. If they seem alright, you're the one! - Kyle Stubbins, CMS
posted on August 17, 2006 06:51:52 AM newhaving a job lined up
Well, B never intended to work anywhere else. He figured that a walkout by the two friends would get the parent company's attention and force them to change their heavy-handed ways. Wooing them back would be much easier than replacing them.
I'm just concerned that with all the kvetching about Stores some sellers might be getting the impression that Stores are being closed en masse.
Everyone needs to sound off now and again. I get that. And by all means close your Store if you've run the numbers and it no longer makes sense for you to have it. But maybe there's a way to still make it work for you under the new fee structure.
posted on August 17, 2006 07:34:44 AM new
I agree with you there. There's no reason to close your store if it's still financially viable even with the upcoming fee increase. For me it was not and that's why I closed it. I guess you could say my store sales were just icing on the cake with my auction sales being the cake. With the limited quantity I had in my store the new fee's would have made the icing rather thin.
As far as friend A and B go. It sounds like friend B should have talked to friend A before steping off the cliff. If he/she had worked it out with friend A they should have both put in their walking papers at the same time. Personally I still would have had a second job lined up. Never threaten to resign unless you have somewhere to go. Just sounds like B shot himself in the foot with a full magazine and then reloaded and shot his other foot.
1 out of 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Take a look at your 3 closest friends. If they seem alright, you're the one! - Kyle Stubbins, CMS
That's 25 stores per page times 100 for a total of 2,500 stores. 2,500 X $15.95 = $39,875 X 12 months is $478,500 per year.
1 out of 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Take a look at your 3 closest friends. If they seem alright, you're the one! - Kyle Stubbins, CMS