posted on December 26, 2009 07:26:42 AM new
Membership in the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PeSA/ECMTA) is now free, which may be the biggest bargain on the planet.
Where else can you find experienced merchants to help you build out your website?
We also have regional meet-ups as well as a summit coming up in Las Vegas in April 2010, where you can attend a workshop led by (cough, cough) yours truly, as well as hear exciting and inspirational speakers and catch up on the latest trends in ecommerce.
Sell collectibles? We have some of the biggest stamp sellers on eBay.
Check us out. Become part of a community that is growing rapidly as people desert eBay's sinking ship.
posted on December 27, 2009 04:44:35 PM new
Break loose from eBay. Start making real money-
Unfortunately it is a mirage you are seeing,it does not exist !
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There is no 'Global savings glut',only wild horses and loose bankers.
posted on December 27, 2009 05:54:38 PM new
"Break loose from eBay. Start making real money-
Unfortunately it is a mirage you are seeing,it does not exist !"
It does exist. The world other than ebay has green grass, gentle breezes with swaying flowers, a gentle blue sky with cotton ball clouds.
There are customers that pay with a credit card, and return to buy from you, not ebay. Their orders are larger because there is a shopping cart that works.
A world where no one ever asks about lower shipping costs, and even uses UPS shipping without complaining about the price.
A world where International buyers, with their money advantage spend freely.
A world without ebay looking over your shoulder, watching you for off-site selling, and fee avoidance, is a beautiful world.
A world without having to share your profits with ebay, is even more beautiful, than a smiling child's face on Christmas morn.
The only mirage is that of the ebay buyers that no longer exist.
posted on December 28, 2009 06:08:01 AM new
Bill,
I wish the world is as you described,good for you!
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There is no 'Global savings glut',only wild horses and loose bankers.
posted on December 28, 2009 09:33:55 AM new
Hello,
There are a lot of things I still buy off of eBay. Just like trolling through random sellers own fixed price stores - you learn how to spot the good from the bad. It's pretty easy usually if you have any buying experience.
Then again there are some things you can only source from maybe one or two places and one of those places is usually eBay - so sometimes you just don't have the choice.
posted on December 28, 2009 09:38:05 AM new
I still buy on eBay. I treat it like a do a resale shop. You have to weed through a lot of duds to get to the good stuff.
posted on December 28, 2009 09:45:59 AM new
In 12 years on Ebay, I've only sold. That's gone from wildly profitable working 40 hours a week, to working 80 hours a week to barely pay expenses. At this point I'm really an employee of Ebay. My 80 hours produces 6 times more profit for them then it does for me.
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I did buy my first item ever the other day....for $8.
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Ebay is sinking.......the future is elsewhere.
posted on December 28, 2009 01:37:47 PM new
I'm going to check this out more after the 1st of the year but it looks interesting.
So seller list their items on Professional eBay Sellers Alliance and the same items on ebay?
posted on December 28, 2009 03:40:27 PM new
Well, that was interesting!
I checked the Pesa Merchants Mall and did a search for Souvenir spoons in Collectibles.
Ta-da....there were two of my listings on the front page which puzzled me until I read at the top that 'No Pesa merchants had what I searched for but here are sellers items on EBay'! Yours are there too ebabes!
I can't become a member because I rarely am a Power Seller anymore. Since the collecting market changed and evolved over the past couple of years I do not list much fine china and instead I play with Spoons!
To answer the other question, I do not buy on EBay anymore as anything that I want from the United States has outrageous shipping costs now that most of the Sellers insist on using Priority First Class mail. I understand the reasons for it but it put a stop to my buying habits and my Banker (DH) thanks me!
posted on December 28, 2009 05:52:33 PM new
I think you got my 3rd ID which is great as I'm not a Power Seller or anything on that ID - kinda of my catch-all ID. Take the stars away for my 1st ID.
I brought up the question of PowerSeller status for PeSA. I think the consensus is that the requirement is outdated but I don't know when they'll change it.
But an ECMTA membership gets you into the forums, where the real value is. Plus you get the badges/trust marks for your website, access to special offers (I got 6 months free on my Yahoo store), etc.
eBay thinks its future lies in having hundreds of Diamond sellers who flood the site with free listings. Never mind that that's not what people browse on eBay for.
So break away and take charge of your own destiny.
