fishfry
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posted on April 26, 2002 06:47:58 AM new
Allow links to your website! We link to ebay, and bring people into the auctions, but they won't even sell you an option to have links for your website.
And lengthen the title lines, too!
Don't like the double category listing option either - who wants to look at the same auction twice?
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outoftheblue
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posted on April 27, 2002 12:18:17 AM new
1. Free Buy It Now option (Like Yahoo)
2. Free Gallery images (Like Yahoo)
3. No extra fee for 10 day listings (Like Yahoo)
4. More liberal with off site links (seller's web sites ok)
5. Let us set an ending time for our auctions (Like Yahoo) This way I can list at any time of the day and my auctions will end at the time I want them to.
6. 1 free relist whether the item sells or not. (The way they do it now is ridiculous)
7. Allow the person who leaves feedback to revise the rating. (Like Yahoo)
It's too bad that Yahoo is so dead right now. I like the features, but the bids aren't there so what's the point.
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sweetboo
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posted on April 27, 2002 03:36:37 AM new
I have to totally disagree with zathras11's idea of deleting the listing fee and charging a flat 10% for FVF... that would kill all the sellers who sell anything worth $10.00 or more. My items range from $3.00 to $400 and there isn't a way in hell I would pay $40 to eBay to sell a $400 item. There would be so many people leaving.
Does zathras11 really think everyone sells items for just a few dollars. That is the only way you could benefit from that idea. If you are only selling small priced items then how do you have time to make money and calculate all the eBay fees, sounds a bit time consuming.
I do agree with extending the title characters, and changing feedback.
I don't really care about Meg's weight..goodness knows we all probably could use a few pounds 
I do think better software to cover their downtimes would be beneficial. And I agree with fluffythewondercat about just giving some kind of price break to powersellers. I certainly don't want some freebies. And I am not going to authorize them to zap my checking account to get a measly 1% back.
There's no danger of developing eyestrain from looking at the bright side of things!
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fishfry
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posted on April 27, 2002 04:54:30 AM new
We second that flexible ending time thing - but I bet it would crash ebay, when everyone sets their auctions to close at prime time!
And don't can those email addresses for safeharbor, etc. - we really, really hate those horrible web forms!
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classicrock000
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posted on April 27, 2002 05:23:55 AM new
put fat meg on a diet
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blueyes29
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posted on April 27, 2002 08:39:42 AM new
Modify the Feedback process. If a bidder has an "NPB" and the seller has filed for FVF, then ALL feedback from the bidder on that transaction (positive, neutral, negative) should be removed. Folks who don't pay shouldn't be permitted to leave feedback.
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difs
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posted on April 27, 2002 09:20:58 AM new
I passed this thread on to ebay. Hope they read it!
Di
On a scale of 1 to 10...we'd all weigh a lot less!
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ruben
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posted on April 27, 2002 10:59:24 AM new
'what would you do to improve ebay?' - that is a loaded question, the one thing I would do is do away with safeharbor, since all those folks over there are a bunch of big head idoits that can't solve any problems or investigate any issues. Offer a PHONE NUMBER so that we can talk to a real person when there is a problem....
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jalleniii
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posted on April 27, 2002 07:28:25 PM new
Eliminate about 100,000 sellers.
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dragonmom
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posted on April 27, 2002 08:14:02 PM new
There are a lot of good ideas here! Should we email ebay with this URL of this thread? Or do you think they would even care...
I haven't bothered with the square trade seal at all, for instance. If there was a genuine rebate attached it would be worth it.
And if I were allowed a live link to my storefront site, I would be more willing to sell as a genuine auction, with noreserve. The traffic would make it worthwhile to me.
I too would like a quicker NPB credit. And I would like to see an automatic extension feature. and, Pelorus, the idea about the search indexing would be a wonderful thing!
AND the one that REALLY GETS MY GOAT- is the damn multiple listings. if you are not selling ONE of your "SWORD OF MERLIN ATHAME L@@K", for crissakes, what makes you think you will sell ten of them? Make 'em sell dutch.
"And All Shall be Well, and All Shall be Well, and All Manner of Things Shall be Well"
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sparkz
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posted on April 27, 2002 08:33:28 PM new
I would change the feedback system so that when a seller files for a FVF, it is declared a "non transaction" (after all, that's what it is) and neither buyer or seller is allowed to leave feedback. Ebay should then issue an administrative neg to the deadbeat automatically. They could even take it one step further and make the deadbeat post a credit card to guarantee future purchases before being allowed to bid again.
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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outoftheblue
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posted on April 27, 2002 09:06:16 PM new
Get rid of all anal sellers and buyers.
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clarksville
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posted on April 27, 2002 10:36:33 PM new
sparkz if your suggestion is integrated into the system, good buyers who are screwed by a seller would not be able to leave feedback to warn other buyers. It would work both ways, you know.
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outoftheblue
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posted on April 27, 2002 11:46:14 PM new
clarksville
>>"Ebay should then issue an administrative neg to the deadbeat automatically."<<
I thought of something similar myself. I just don't see how it could work though.
How does Ebay decide if the buyer is a deadbeat? How do they know that the seller is not just being unreasonable because the buyer's payment arrived a couple of days late? It could be the fault of the postal service. What if the buyer did actually pay and the seller (who has decided to not send the item) and files for his FVFs to get out of receiving negative feedback? A system like that favors the seller and is ripe for abuse.
There's no good way to fix the feedback system that I can think of.
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classicrock000
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posted on April 28, 2002 05:35:22 AM new
get rid of all anal buyer and sellers???
who would I buy and sell to??
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clarksville
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posted on April 28, 2002 09:56:26 AM new
outoftheblue when I wrote that, I was thinking of the buyers who purposely bid on multiple items and intentionally refuse to pay. Remember back in '99 there was a rash of hoodwinks registering and re-gister just to cause havic by bidding? Even though eBay's current system does let some slip through, it is better.
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outoftheblue
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posted on April 28, 2002 12:03:16 PM new
clarksville
First I have to apologize. My post was meant for sparkz. I guess I wasn't paying attention.
Anyway,
<<"Remember back in '99 there was a rash of hoodwinks registering and re-gister just to cause havic by bidding?">>
I didn't start selling on Ebay until the latter half of 1999 before that I mostly just bid on items and never frequented any message boards, so I probably missed what you are talking about..
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outoftheblue
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posted on April 28, 2002 12:07:13 PM new
classicrock000
I don't think that the majority of us are anal. Not in my oppinion anyway... 
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gueritaville
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posted on April 28, 2002 01:04:06 PM new
I really like the idea of having a way to view someone's negative feedback all in one place. If I had taken the time to go through all 1000+ positive FBs to find the 18 negatives, I would have seen that a seller I got taken by does the same thing every time..... sells trinkety crap for 4 or 5 dollars and the buyers love him. Occasionally sells bigger ticket items that aren't as he describes, refuses to even try to make things OK, THEN leaves negative feedback for the person who just got shafted!
Of course, I didn't look and now I'm out $125 and getting letters from other buyers who didn't look, either. We all feel totally screwed but can't do anything about it.
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classicrock000
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posted on April 28, 2002 01:11:42 PM new
outoftheblue---I know-just making a funny
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outoftheblue
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posted on April 28, 2002 05:47:16 PM new
>>"I didn't look and now I'm out $125 and getting letters from other buyers who didn't look, either. We all feel totally screwed but can't do anything about it."<<
Did you use a credit or debit card to pay for the transaction. If so, a chargeback is in order.
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ruben
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posted on April 29, 2002 12:23:16 PM new
outoftheblue said it best:
1. Free Buy It Now option (Like Yahoo)
2. Free Gallery images (Like Yahoo)
3. No extra fee for 10 day listings (Like Yahoo)
4. More liberal with off site links (seller's web sites ok)
5. Let us set an ending time for our auctions (Like Yahoo) This way I can list at any time of the day and my auctions will end at the time I want them to.
6. 1 free relist whether the item sells or not. (The way they do it now is ridiculous)
7. Allow the person who leaves feedback to revise the rating. (Like Yahoo)
It's too bad that Yahoo is so dead right now. I like the features, but the bids aren't there so what's the point.
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blackdog
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posted on April 29, 2002 01:40:13 PM new
Longer title fields, definitely! 45 characters is NOT enough!
Fix the equipment to eliminate all the crashes.
Have some sort of volume-based Power Seller program for those who sell many, many small items, but don't make the sales figure.
And finally, dunique put it succinctly:
"I'd turn back the clock about three years to when most eBay sellers were offering collectible goods actually worth buying and eBay was run as a real auction site, instead of the anything-goes worldwide flea market and massive junk merchandise outlet it has become."
One has to wade through altogether too many "Sword of Merlin" items to get to the real collectibles! Not to mention weight loss pills, get-rich-on-eBay CDs, spy software ("ruin anyone", and all the other worthless crap you see on the "Featured" list. I get enough of that in the 300+ spams I get every day - don't need it on eBay, too!
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ginny
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posted on May 18, 2002 08:17:02 PM new
I would make it easy to access a Buyer or Seller's negative feedbacks. Perhaps making the word "negative" a hot link to bring up all negatives together in one place. This would work well with those who have high feedback numbers, especially.
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stopwhining
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posted on May 18, 2002 08:35:57 PM new
i just want to say from my own personal observation-it seems more and more ebay sellers are starting their asking bid low ,like 1.95 to 6.00 dollars and ebay is adding more and more bells and whistles to the ebay listing??
does it make sense??
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clarksville
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posted on May 18, 2002 09:16:48 PM new
stopwhining it seems more and more ebay sellers are starting their asking bid low ,like 1.95 to 6.00 dollars and ebay is adding more and more bells and whistles to the ebay listing?? does it make sense??
NO It wasn't too long ago that an item could have a starting bid of $1.00 and skyrocket til the end.
Can you believe it, I forgot about this thread! Thanks for the BUMP!
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caffeitalia
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posted on May 18, 2002 10:40:28 PM new
zathras11's idea is not good. If you drop the listing fees to zero, ebay would turn into Bidville. However, illiminating many of the stupid fees would be nice. Get rid of buy it now fee, photo icon fee. A few others as well that escape me.
Also, make the minimum bids for all items at least three dollars. That way, much of the real junk that is left will get removed. Those sellers that screw up auctions by listing them for a penny and closing them early if they don't get the bids would at least have to list their items at a higher value making it more fare for everyone to get some bids.
You know what would be nice, to be able to feature a certain amount of items for free on your birthday. Kind of like a present from ebay to you.
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Libra63
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posted on May 19, 2002 12:33:41 AM new
I would second the ida about the free listing day on your birthday. That would be better than everyone trying to list on the same day like it is now. This way we all could remember when it is, unless of course altheimers is setting in and you forget your birthday. I don't like the idea when you relist and you don't sell it you have to pay the listing fee, it should be free to list one time. I think instead of relisting my items I will put them in my AW storefront and put a note in my WBN. Is that legal????
I think it is time eBay starts listening to the smaller sellers instead of the Power sellers, because we all know the power sellers will stay, they need to think of a way to keep the smaller sellers.
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classicrock000
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posted on May 19, 2002 06:12:56 AM new
put fat meg on a diet
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caffeitalia
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posted on May 19, 2002 07:40:40 AM new
Libra,
You can put the link in your WBN. Just not in your ebay listings.
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