RussellJDS98926
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posted on September 3, 2001 10:29:56 PM new
MY STATS: My Ebay sales in 1 year = 2 (Potter books) My Yahoo sales in 1 year = 2 (a boy scout hat & a VFW hat) total comined = $40 after fees. I had 2 positive feedbacks on each site and that was all.
MY EPIER STATS: My sales in the nearly 1 year there = 23 Sales from $5 to $80 and average sale amount $20-$30 each. Items from $5 necklace to 6 place setting of Fire King dishes to a 50lb deco sewing machine shipped to Hawaii. OTHER INFO: Easy to list and use, great seller support structure (PierPals), fun site, FREE listing and NO FVF. Based in Spokane WA and I am from Ellensburg WA. Sales from Local area ans WA state to across the nation and recently to Germany.
I cant say enuff great things about EPIER!!
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bidsbids
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posted on September 4, 2001 06:52:40 AM new
I've heard of the Lone Ranger before and now I've met the Lone Cheerleader.
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dimview
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posted on September 4, 2001 06:59:54 AM new
I put up about fifty items for a friend on ePier last month and eight, or some 15%, sold.
All the sales were from two buyers, however, and a relist of the remaining items have few pageviews and no bids.
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moonmem-07
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posted on September 4, 2001 09:15:35 AM new
I had to check and make sure Epier was still there. I haven't sold anything there in ages. I really like the site and hope things pick up there.
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rustybore
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posted on September 4, 2001 09:25:08 AM new
Epier is OK. not great mind you - but OK. I have sold perhaps 60 total items in the last 15 months or so on epier. Although I hate to admit it, the bulk of my sales - and my best sales still come from ebung and Yagoo...
My earliest sales on epier were to unique users, my more recent sales were folks from the chat boards - mostly other sellers I'd guess.
As a rule I was getting more page views at epier (average of 4-5) than bidville, but thats not saying much as my page views at bidville averaged maybe 1 or less per item.
The most fun I have had at epier has been buying. I have found some interesting deals, and have made a several nice buys there.
In closing, I'd suggest that epier shows some good potential. Who knows, spend enough time on epier and the site may grow on you... 
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bidsbids
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posted on September 4, 2001 09:32:05 AM new
Maybe there is a corelation between your pageviews at ePier and BV? Several views at ePier ( 100,000+ items ) and 1 or less at BV ( 725,000+ items ). The more items at a site the less chance of getting page hits? The lack of an auction description search at BV has to cut into the page hits a little.
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bidsbids
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posted on September 4, 2001 10:26:55 AM new
oopps!
[ edited by bidsbids on Sep 4, 2001 10:27 AM ]
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RussellJDS98926
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posted on September 4, 2001 10:29:05 AM new
Hey all I was doing was outting out the truth of my experience at EPIER. Figuratively speaking "if ya dont know how to operate a car, you are going to crash". So sales on any site will go as well. and dimview, do you get paid to do what you do or just do this for ego purposes?
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bidsbids
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posted on September 4, 2001 11:19:08 AM new
"if ya dont know how to operate a car, you are going to crash".
So 98% of the auction sellers don't know how to sell but you do? Oh, I see, Epier et al are perfect but it's the sellers that do not know how to sell that cause those 1.5% sell thru rates. Thanks for pointing that out.
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deichen
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posted on September 4, 2001 11:49:15 AM new
Congrats, Russell!
I personally have sold only 5 items on Epier, but do not have very many listed there. Seems we have some jealous people here. Geez, the guy is commenting on his own experience and he gets jumped. I am sorry for some people's rude behavior. If everyone was this rude to their buyers you would not have any.
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dimview
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posted on September 4, 2001 12:45:34 PM new
RussellJDS98926,
Seems to me that a real "sales report" would include the number of items offered, otherwise half the equation is missing.
I don't think that's a matter of "ego," as you put it, but of completeness.
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dman3
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posted on September 4, 2001 03:21:10 PM new
I listed for a while on epier I think it can really stand a chance of being a fair site to sell on.
since they are now chargeing for stores and other things i'm starting to see some advertizeing it might just catch on.
By the way I surfed through epier stores they have ebay beat by a mile and lower cost pluss free picture hosting.
this site could easily become the small sellers auction and fixed priced venue, now if they could only get some of that advertizeing they are doing in the eyes of bidders and buyers..
http://www.Dman-N-Company.com
Email [email protected]
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pcornacchione
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posted on September 5, 2001 08:27:33 AM new
Well i've been with epier for quite some time now and also with several other sites as well. Things for me on most of the sites have hit rock bottom...i've been told by many folks that this is just a "slow time" and that things will pick up. WHEN??????
Things have never been wonderful on epier, nor have they been wonderful on any site, but at least i am making some sales on the OTHER sites. I have yet to see any benefit from the advertising epier has begun and i'm still wondering where all this advertising is at exactly???
I know there are plenty of folks here on AW but is this the ONLY place epier is advertising???
I have to agree with Dimview that site sales statistics need the entire picture and not just the info "you" (general you and NOT any certain person) want to give. If i counted ONLY my sales for the time i've been with epier as opposed to the other sites then YES it would appear that epier is sunshine and roses! BUT if i count $$$$ then the other sites are by far the better! If i count the total number of items listed with epier into that sales figure then it SUCKS with about a 3-4% sales rate!! While if i count the number of items listed with the other sites into that sales figure then i have a 50-75% SALES RATE!! That's a FRIGGIN' HUGE difference!!
Just my pennys worth on this topic.
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bidsbids
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posted on September 5, 2001 12:05:51 PM new
I have been patiently waiting for a small site to advertise to see if it would help the situation of very low traffic at those sites. At long last, ePier has taken the initative and I will wait to see if any improvement in the traffic situation there. My personal feeling is that there will be no noticeable difference in traffic unless a huge amount of money is spent.
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robnzak
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posted on September 5, 2001 06:53:05 PM new
I congratulate Russell for getting as many sales as he did, but personally if I couldn't get more than 23 sales after nearly a year, I'd be outta there. On Carnaby, I've had more than that many sales in the last 5 or 6 weeks.
Rob
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relayerone
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posted on September 6, 2001 12:38:37 AM new
Isn't it wonderful how we all make our chosen auction sites seem........*wonderful* LOL
Truth is they're *all* pretty grim, bid-wise, but hey, to each his/her own, standing up for what you believe in is likely something that goes back to our cave dwelling days ))
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bidsbids
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posted on September 6, 2001 12:49:51 AM new
I agree 100% relayerone. Isn't it also amazing that the average free site has a 1.5% to 2.5% sell-thru rate yet several sellers proudly come forth to announce their vast superiority over the other sellers with their high personal sell-thru rates. Reminds me of the people that hit the casinos, the very rare big winners boast and crow and the vast masses that lost money remain silent.
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robnzak
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posted on September 6, 2001 06:48:19 AM new
My previous post was not made to put down anyones sales achievement or their preferred auction site, they all have their pros and cons. Nor was I feeling superior, as I'm sure there are hundreds of posters to these boards whose sales dwarf mine, I was merely making the point that for me, I'd need more than a couple dozen sales at any site during the course of a year, otherwise it wouldn't be worth the time and effort to remain.
Rob
edit for spelling
[ edited by robnzak on Sep 6, 2001 06:49 AM ]
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opals4u
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posted on September 6, 2001 08:08:44 AM new
<h4> My username on ePier is opals.
<br>My username on eBay is navajojewelry.<br>Since many are comparing sites with statistics - maybe I can add some. I have at this time about 200 items listed at ePier with most starting at below my cost to try to get buyers there. These specific items have been listed nearly a week and I have 5 single bids at this time.<br><br>
About 2 weeks ago I listed about 300 items at eBay and had all but (1) item sell at quite a nice profit and numerous bids on most of the items.<br><br>
This is the only comparision that I have at the present time without going back about 9 months when I had nearly 1000 items listed at ePier and sold about 50 in about a month, again at way below cost.<br><br>These are my true findings thus far to use as comparisions.<br><h4>I am only comparing, not saying any site is any better than nay other - This can only be decided by individual experiences and yours may not be the same as mine.</h4>
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bidsbids
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posted on September 6, 2001 10:12:30 AM new
Thank you opals4u for the comparison reports on the big site and a lesser site. Your figures point out the huge difference in traffic at the two types of sites and the results of that different traffic flow. The items at super low prices barely sold at the free site but almost all sold with many bids at the big site.
I do believe if you had placed your items at a higher price that allowed you a decent profit at the free site that your sales there would have been much less.
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rustybore
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posted on September 6, 2001 07:42:23 PM new
Opals report more or less proves that either;
1) Ebay users are just too darn lazy to do a few clicks and shop anywhere but ebay.
2) Ebay users are totally in love with ebay and, though they know of other sites, refuse to shop anywhere else.
3) Other online sites are precived as wharehouses for useless junk, despite the fact that folks like Opals (and many others) list quailty stuff there at better prices.
4) All of the above?
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dman3
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posted on September 6, 2001 07:53:35 PM new
I'm Pretty Sure it has alot more to do with people being lazy, or maybe lazy is to strong a word.
They Book mark some websites when they first started useing there computer and never explore much farther till the computer breaks down and they get a new one they lose all there book marks and have to start over.
I have been using this and other message boards just over 2 year now and I notice that people who come in saying they just got a new computer and lost there old book marks and over the weeks that fallow they annouce there new findings like Epier and bidville and they will talk about them like they are new auction sites ..
yet other will be here complaining there computer was wiped out by a virus they had to reformat and then the new discoverys will start to be reported by them.
many dont know much about there computers and Ebay was book marked by a friend back when who was selling there and its one of the only sites they have ever surfed..
When one or two websites is all you have ever used in your whole time useing the internet and the computer its hard to break the daily habbit of turning on the computer and clicking the book mark..
http://www.Dman-N-Company.com
Email [email protected]
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bidsbids
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posted on September 6, 2001 11:44:19 PM new
Thirty million registered users on eBay. The other sites combined equal only a tiny faction of that total. Sometimes I think the only people that know of the tiny sites are the few disgruntled sellers that left eBay and the only way they found the tiny sites was through forums such as AW.
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RussellJDS98926
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posted on September 16, 2001 09:58:19 AM new
NOT true bidbid, yes I am not happy with the big 2, but I dont have the finacial means to list 50 items on them either.
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