posted on December 6, 2002 03:28:37 PM new
I just last week reads an article about him. I beleve he is the largest seller of CD's in the world, all on eBay!! Several thousand per week.
posted on December 6, 2002 03:42:17 PM new
Wow! That is amazing. I am 2.1% of the way there, at my current rate it should only take me about 40 years...
posted on December 6, 2002 04:09:26 PM new
That's Marie. She posted on the OTWA ebay message board a few weeks ago that she would hit the 100,000 mark in early December. She also posted that the 10 cent reducution in listing fees for weeklong sale for items listed under $1 a while back saved them $5,000 in listing fees.
posted on December 6, 2002 04:15:53 PM new
ahc3: are you doing 2100 per yr? or is that your total? I am using 2100 because you said 2.1% & that is 2.1% of 100,000. If you are doing that per year, it will take you 47.62 years to attain that mark. I figured it will take me 200+ yrs. Ha, I should live so long. lol
posted on December 6, 2002 05:26:58 PM new
I was just making a joke about how long it would take, but who knows, that might be right. I have 2100+ but I have been on ebay since 1997. I haven't been a seller all that time, and until last year, I did not run as many auctions as I do now, so I expect to gain more than 400+ a year (I hope!!)
posted on December 6, 2002 05:50:11 PM new
Wow, I can't even imagine that! I'm getting close to my green star and was planning a party for that (should happen right around New Years). Can't imagine the celebration she did....no wait...I think she's probably too busy to celebrate. How she can ever even get the time to post in a chat room is beyond me!
posted on December 6, 2002 07:07:23 PM new
I am well over 10,000 but the amount of work is incredible and I dont do the shipping. I could only imagine the work load they have.
posted on December 6, 2002 07:11:04 PM new
Ihula, someone like that does not work alone, they have employees. If I had ten people here......in a Heartbeat.
posted on December 7, 2002 01:36:15 PM new
Did she really post over 50,000 auctions that week to save $5G? That's what it would have taken to save that much. From what I've seen, I usually see about 2-3,000 auctions going at any time. 50K would be quite a bit. I haven't checked her feedback lately, but last time I looked, it was peppered with more negatives. Mainly from selling items that are not supposed to be sold(demo copies, etc), but still impressive with that many auctions.
posted on December 7, 2002 10:16:12 PM new
Oh I don't know, with well over 200,000 feedback, and about 1400 negatives, that is NOT bad at all.
I thought I read (on OTWA) that she and her husband do all this alone, thus saving all overhead....(I may be wrong) but I thought she said that eBay came and visited them, and were mighty impressed, they came trying to talk them into Billpoint, which they didn't accept.
posted on December 8, 2002 07:03:16 AM new
just wondering where she gets all these cd's from-with that many auctions,im sure they must have people working for them
posted on December 8, 2002 10:05:18 AM new
Getting the CDs isn't hard; just work with a couple of distributors. When you buy in the volume Marie does, she gets a great price per CD, I would bet.
I've analyzed her auctions to try to figure out how she does it. She posts about 600 auctions every night, starting around 5 pm PST and ending at midnight. By the timing it looks like it's done with Seller's Assistant or some other piece of software that fires off the auctions at a specific time. She launches batches of about 50 at 15 minute intervals.
Her auctions are 96% boilerplate. The only thing that changes from auction to auction is the title and the 30 word description, which often includes a reference to the record company's website. Here is eBay's link policy, and you can see that what she is doing is a violation:
"The eBay Item page may not contain URLs or links to, or promotional information about, any off-eBay Web page, including Web sites of the seller or any third party."
But perhaps eBay isn't interested in pursuing rule infringements by its top-grossing sellers.
There are no track listings, like some other CD sellers, and no cover pictures.
Typos abound, both in the descriptions and in the titles, obviously typed very quickly. The title typos are probably costing her some bids. (Unless you're looking for CDs by that famous ex-Beatle "Bingo Starr". )
posted on December 8, 2002 10:14:12 AM new
I read somewhere that she had people working for her. She hinted that herself and the 99 Cent Club had been lobbying hard for a reduction in the listing fee for items under $1 with no reserve.
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