posted on November 27, 2003 05:59:14 AM new
There seems to be something happening. I notice Ebay is trying to incorporate the auction site with the half.com site. What's the latest? is Half going to live or is it dying into the arms of Ebay?
posted on November 27, 2003 09:56:53 AM new
Half.com is going to "merge" into Ebay - they say. Still unclear exactly how, but my own Half sales sure have tanked. I think you can read more about this if you go to the Half.com site and look for announcements. We all got a lot of information a while back.
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posted on November 27, 2003 11:10:32 AM new
Ditto here. Don't know what's happening, but I get more sales from Amazon now vs. Half.com; it was the opposite the last 2 years.
posted on November 27, 2003 11:12:25 AM new
They are doing everything they can to speed this up, in my opinion. They are continually marketing to half sellers to try ebay. When you manage your inventory, they make it easy to list on ebay (well, not nearly as easy as to list on half) - The inventory management is also not working right, and hasn't been working for a month.
I still make sales on half, but they are reduced as well. I've listed some of the things on ebay, and overall I have done okay there. It is just a lot of work to list on ebay, and half takes so little time. That is going to be the biggest issue, I can change my business model to list everything on ebay, but it takes so much more time to list, and process. Oh well, what choice is there?
posted on November 27, 2003 12:09:34 PM new
Currently, Half customers don't pay upfront. Half gets a cut of our sales. is that going to change when we go "ebay" and we'll have to pay listing fees?
