posted on April 12, 2002 09:29:51 PM new
I have enough listings on HalfDot to where my sales have been fairly steady...about 2 or 3 a day...until this week. I had 2 yeaterday but none the day before and none today. I've had 1 Amazon Marketplace sale all week and 1 Yahoo Warehouse as well.
This is my first year on halfDot and Amazon (Yahoo Marketplace doesn't matter).
Has the week leading up to April 15 always been this bad?
posted on April 13, 2002 08:11:37 AM new
competition has something to do with dead week or dead month??
have you seen new sellers coming to amzn,ebay and yahoo everyday??
there was some technical problem with amzn last month and many of our items were not available .
have you seen new sellers coming to amzn,ebay and yahoo everyday??
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It's not like I'm sitting on the front porch watching the cars drive by, but I believe the auction count on ePay has been flat to down for well over 1 year compared to the same dates the year before, but are inflated by management while they cash in their stock options.
And new sellers on Yahoo? Don't make me laugh. Only on free listing day...
posted on April 13, 2002 08:29:40 AM new
how does management cashing in on their stock options having an impact on auction counts??
it is hard to get motivated to list on yahoo auction as there are so many deadbeat bidders.
posted on April 13, 2002 08:42:12 AM new
The higher the stock price the more you get when you sell a share. You knew that.
But by inflating the auction count (and gooseing the earnings a bit) leads the shareholders to believe eBay is still expanding exponentially, which they are not, and pacifies them not to sell until some leveling off is reported. Most investors see the auction count as a good indicator of sales and earnings, which it is. eBay doesn't release the count anymore on the site and it's not easy to figure because of multiple categories for the same listing. Perhaps ePay's biggest lie is their count of current users. The Auction Guild has been doing a servey of it's members and finds that ePay is counting a lot of dead people, and people who have several accounts.
HalfDot listings are expanding but I haven't checked what impact they claim to be on ePay earnings. Most of ePay's other ventures have been a disaster, but the HalfDot concept makes much better sense to me than auctioning off all items.
posted on April 13, 2002 09:38:09 AM new
i think she means half.com-www.half.com is where books are sold at fixed price.yes,it is taking some business away from amzn.
posted on April 13, 2002 12:57:12 PM new
i dont think ebay needs to inflate auction counts to boost stock price,neither is auction count the only yardstick for projecting ebay performance by wall street analysts.
there are so many resellers on ebay ,are they selling what they have bot??
posted on April 13, 2002 01:03:02 PM new
Actually 'she' is a he, and I'm amaized you haven't heard of half.com which is an eBay company and has MUCH more than books in their 100,000,000 + listings.
In fact, of my 800 items listed there, none of them are books. Books sell much better on Amazon, where I have to pay 15% commission PLUS $1 per sale as opposed to HalfDot's straight 15%.
That is unless you want to give them away. There is so much competition on halfDot for common items that you will find it's hardly worth it for many items unless you want to have an internet garage sale....which is what the concept is all about.
