posted on February 24, 2004 12:27:34 PM new
No snide remarks please.
I sold my first item, for $13.50 vs. $4.75 where it was listed on Amazon. The buyer offered the $13.50 and paid! Yippee.
Now, does anybody know what's happening with Half.com & Ebay? Any news?
Ebay is sending emails about their "stores" so guess things are starting to move.
Anybody know how it's going to work? Will it be the same as Half? which is backend fees when the goods move?
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posted on February 24, 2004 12:37:42 PM new
No one really knows for sure, unfortunately I think that includes Half & eBay themselves. If they had a definite plan, they would have implemented it or at least announced it long before now.
Half will be shut down in the summer, which they have stated many times.
The working assumption of most of us here is that the replacement will simply be eBay Stores, hence the price DROP for store listings. Just go look at the stores now, they're available, and ready to go. At $0.02 a listing per month, that's not terribly unreasonable even for a seller with thousands of listings.
Now whether eBay has plans to increase traffic to the stores is anyone's guess.
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posted on February 25, 2004 03:09:16 AM new
Thanks Ace, I'll take my stuff elsewhere. I don't like this little sentence Ebay wrote:
"Doesn't eBay have fixed price already, why not keep Half?
eBay sellers choose all terms of sale, including price of item, shipping charges, pricing format, and preferred payment method.
eBay offers fixed price options through "Buy It Now" and purely Fixed Price formats in addition to its dynamic auction format. eBay's fixed price offerings contributed 27% of eBay's total Gross Merchandise Sales during the second quarter of 2003."
Which means to me -- Ebay gets the upfront fees vs the backend fees the way it is now.
