posted on June 11, 2007 04:40:11 PM
In my opinion no Homepage can be a Fun Page for Sellers unless there is SOME visibility for Stores!
It is absolutely.......a no fun page!
I am sure there is an uproar going on at the Stores Discussion Board and so there should be...what else can they possibly do to make us more invisible!
posted on June 11, 2007 05:21:48 PMSome of our new designs include more personalized information, so you feel like you are being welcomed back by a site that knows you.
That's so 1999.
Cool the first time ever you see it, boring and stilted each time after.
eBay's problem may very well be that most of their new hires don't remember a time when there wasn't at least email. eBay seems to have forgotten that if you want true innovation, you don't slavishly copy others; you bring innovators on board, such as people who have succeeded in non-Internet arenas. Cross-pollination is really what eBay needs desperately. Nothing else has worked.
posted on June 11, 2007 07:02:33 PM
Novel idea Fluffy - I take it you don't include whiz-kid rocket scientists exploring new ways of database search as cross-pollination. It's too much to ask that eBay explore the expertise of market experts in the history of both online and off-line sales to discover trends, couple them with folks able to project futures and successful marketing strategies to embrace the changing marketplace. I have to believe this expertise exists but has been discarded by eBay in favor of the young, hip folks - as you said, keenly aware of the current trends spouted by the email community. Edited to add: the vibrancy has been lost, not due to the sellers or the market. EBay has not added ANY original innovations in how long? Purchasing technology is OK - but other than PayPal - eBay hasn't purchased any or developed any recent ones that have been helpful to me.
[ edited by pixiamom on Jun 11, 2007 07:44 PM ]
posted on June 11, 2007 07:22:23 PM
Quote: "Cool the first time ever you see it, boring and stilted each time after."
Actually I get creeped out every time I go to Amazon and if I haven't deleted my cookies they tell me what I've searched for in the past. I don't have to sign in, just do a search for something and it's still there the next time I visit.
posted on June 13, 2007 11:57:25 AM
Cathy's crystal ball predicts the end of stores as we know them by the end of this year/early next year.
i had originally thought that expressmess would fizzle this summer, but apparently eBay wants to keep flogging that dead horse with the new/coming capability to list directly to express...although why anyone would want to list there (those listings don't appear on ebay.com) is beyond me.
i think they're gonna keep pushing express. stores are the achilles' heel of express, because stores are where most of the express listings come from. but they can fix that by offering the listing-directly-to-express capability.
stores not in left nav bar? expressmess tab in top nav bar but no stores tab? it's all a part of the same build-up, imho. eBay seems not to have heard that wallet world has already been invented.
if they lose that lawsuit over "buy it now," express also can provide a solution to that dilemma. not looking so good for stores, right about now...
posted on June 13, 2007 12:15:12 PM
I agree. If anything, stores may just contain core items and items listed in Xpress. Same setup, but no BIN.
As to the lawsuit, I believe they have chosen the Xpress course so as to avoid paying for the use of BIN features that eBay has been found to be infringing upon. That is why they are also including Half.com, which has the same problem.
The more I consider the current course, coupled with the knowledge of the pending District Court award of damages, I believe stores will change. As I mentioned, core will handle auctions, without fixed price or BIN, which will be listed in Xpress.
I believe eBay has done a good job protecting its assets, with minimum harm to the sellers. Apparently we will all have to make adjustments to survive.
we're Canucks stuck in the states and nope, you're not missing anything with expressmess. however, i think it will soon be the "only game in town" for non-"core" items on eBay.com (don't you just hate that word "core" - always makes me think of a rotten apple core!)
if you're near the border, maybe you could stash your stuff stateside (just kidding), or get a u.s. mailing addy to be in express? actually, you're kind of giving me a _reverse_ idea. i see no expressmess tab on ebay.ca (but it'll probably come soon). no stores tab, though. but my idle thought is to use our Canadian address/id to list to ebay.ca. hmmm....
