aliceroad
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posted on January 13, 2002 07:38:36 AM new
On free listing day I listed many auctions on Ebay and Yahoo. Noone seems to be looking at the yahoo auctions. have had no more than 2 lookers at any one. The Ebay auctions are not what they used to be, but I have some bids and more lookers. If anybody is going to break the Ebay monopoly, I thought it would be Yahoo.
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sulyn1950
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posted on January 13, 2002 09:13:17 AM new
Your not alone. I haven't listed anything since my auctions from FLD ended. Decided I would wait and watch and see what was happening.
I just watched a seller in my category close around 15 auctions at prices BELOW $25.00 on items that should have closed for around $40-$60 (that's what they usually close for on eBay anyway). She made the same mistake I made a few months ago. Worried that my sales had stopped, I started lowering my starting price trying to get some interest going. Learned real quick that doesn't work on Yahoo.
She started at $9.99 without any reserve. I feel so sorry for her. She did get bids but apparently they were bidding only one increment at a time. I watched an item go from $9.99 start to only a $15.00 close with 15 bids! This was an item that I have sold in the past. My cost for the item from my supplier was $25. I am sure she paid close to that also. Sad, sad, sad...
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stopwhining
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posted on January 13, 2002 11:33:48 AM new
during xmas,i watched several sellers listing italian murano leather watches for sale,listed at 9.95 (shipping usa 6.95) with buy it now price of 34.95.
she listed about 12 of them,each a different color and style.
now if you were the bidder,would you exercise BUT IT NOW at 34.95 or would you take your chance at 9.95 and bid upwards.
most of her auctions end with 9.95 and some go to 15 or 22 the most.
i asked her how she can make money at that price,she claimed she picked them up at trade show and so there is no freight cost??
there is no way it can be picked up at trade show for under 9.95 if they are truly made in italy.
it looks more like some upscale retailer liquidating after 911?sad!!!
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bidsbids
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posted on January 13, 2002 03:26:14 PM new
Those types of stories are repeated so often that you have to wonder how many sellers actually do make any kind of a decent profit on ebay or any other auction. The marketplace has brought most items down to super low prices via the supply and demand rule but how long can sellers be expected to not make a decent profit? When will it end? ( don't say never, that's so depressing ).
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lovepotions
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posted on January 14, 2002 01:07:23 PM new
You said you listed many items on free listing day
Just remember that on FLD everyone and their brother and their neighbor and their neighbor's cousins are listing as much as they possibly can in that 24 time period.
All of the categories get completely flooded.
You do get the benefit of those free listings as does everyone else. Some people get less bids than usual during that time.
When I do a normal run i'll list 50 items. On FLD I listed over 250+.
I actually got lucky and had a lot of bids this time around.
http://www.lovepotions.com
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JWPC
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posted on January 17, 2002 09:04:14 PM new
I too decided to give Yahoo a try on Free Listing Day - listed about 40 items and sold 1.....I did the same thing on eBay's Free Listing Day, I listed about 40 on eBay and sold about 38 - even for Free Yahoo has become the pits!
I'd rather pay to eBay and sell something....
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barparts
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posted on January 17, 2002 09:39:58 PM new
Hey JWPC,
I checked you out on ebay to see what you were selling that sold so well on ebay and didn't sell at all on Yahoo. Guess what I found. You didn't even list a single item on Ebay. So how is it you sold 38 out of 40 items when you didn't even have anything listed? You know what else I found. You didn't even list any items on Yahoo during that period. No wonder you didn't have any sales there.
Kind of bogus for you to downgrade any site when you are just making up stories about nothing.
bp
[ edited by barparts on Jan 17, 2002 09:44 PM ]
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bidsbids
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posted on January 17, 2002 11:43:33 PM new
Maybe he has 2 accounts on each site? That is common.
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DMRick
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posted on January 18, 2002 05:05:19 PM new
I'm assuming that most of us don't use our "eBay" names on this board. Often people write that they aren't such and such name on eBay. I know I'm not. I too listed both eBay and Yahoo..although I got a few bids on eBay, collecting was a hastle and payment didn't happen on some. I did better on eBay, although free listing week was one of my slower times.
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stopwhining
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posted on January 19, 2002 08:37:18 AM new
ebay had 4 million items before free listing day and after that day,8 millions.
so for the next 7-10 days,bidders have an extra 4 million items to wade through.
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aliceroad
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posted on January 19, 2002 08:49:29 AM new
so far, of all my Yahoos from free lsting day, ended with no bids. Very few lookers. About 75% of my ebays have ended in sales. I just do not understand it.
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bidsbids
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posted on January 19, 2002 09:47:07 AM new
The number of eBay listings is very tricky. An item listed in 2 categories counts as 2 listings. On Free Listing Day at eBay the 2 categories listings were free as well as single category listings.
My eBay FLD items did very well. Many sellers were able to list lower end items that they normally wouldn't risk a 30 cent listing fee with. The eBay shoppers ate these items up.
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quickdraw29
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posted on January 19, 2002 11:37:40 PM new
On Yahoo I've been relisting an item every week that is selling for 20% more than I sold it on ebay. I also have an item featured on Yahoo that didn't sell on ebay and I've got a bid on it on the first day and with a profit.
So it's not Yahoo to blame for lack of sales, you have to continously adjust to what the market wants and deliver it. In the summer I sold over and over again a certain video, now it gets no looks so I list other type of items.
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