posted on April 2, 2004 05:29:35 PM new
Remember, e bay started with ONE seller and ONE buyer. Tell everyone to RUN not walk over there and list , list, list!
Everything works just the way e bay likes it,, Have A Beautiful E bay day.
posted on April 3, 2004 05:04:15 AM new
jack,
i went over there last nite and look.
the pictures are horrible,asking price is okay,no mention of how much is shipping.
why??did you list many items there??
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Benjamin Franklin
posted on April 3, 2004 07:06:17 PM new
Twelvepole...You make a very valid point. There is no way an underfunded shoestring outfit can hope to take on the Ebay machine. I would think that Bidzfree would have a much better chance of success if they had a fee structure identical to Ebay's, but perhaps 25% cheaper across the board. Successful sellers are used to the fees and suspicious of anything "free". Anything that starts out free causes me to wonder when the hammer will drop.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 3, 2004 07:07:22 PM new
L@@king,,,,,,for other Avenues....And btw,,,,,, THEY just offered ME a HUGE commission to Promote their site,,,,I WILL reply back to that fer sure!.....they LIKE my STYLE,,,,I e mailed them with my "enhancements" to their site ideas,,,they must have liked them.....they must understand me?????....I use NO prescribed Drugs,,,,,,I am ALL Natual,,,,,,,you can buy it in ANY liquor stoe,,,,yeah,,,,,I speak Ebonics too, hahahaha...
Thanks 12,,,,,A NICE reply.....
Everything works just the way e bay likes it,, Have A Beautiful E bay day.
posted on April 3, 2004 07:26:30 PM new
why should seller shy away from free site??
i for one wont mind listing there,except i dont like the company,the sellers dont have nice stuff.
so people come and they lost interest,see now they have ebay to compare with,why should they come to such a tacky site with tacky merchandise when they can drool on ebay??
but then ebay has a lot of junks and tacky stuff too.
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Benjamin Franklin
posted on April 3, 2004 07:53:51 PM new
I looked around the site at several areas and the only number is ever saw for bids was 0. Is there a single bid on the site? Also I could not find any of the things I buy or sell.
Good luck Jack. Hope it works for you but I can't get very excited about it.
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posted on April 3, 2004 07:58:59 PM new
Stop...I agree, Ebay has a lot of tacky junk listed, but a free site seems to draw it like flys to honey. Crap that no sane person would spend 30 cents to list suddenly floods a free site and covers up the quality items. FLD on Ebay is a fair example, but it only comes once a year. Many sellers of high end merchandise avoid FLD and the following 6 days like the plague. If it's not worth 20-30 cents to list, then it belongs in the goodwill donation pile. There is an extensive track record for free sites. They seem to pop up with fair regularity and disapear with the same regularity. To attract quality sellers with quality merchandise, you have to have a quality site. For some reason, no free site has been able to project this image so far.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 3, 2004 08:09:49 PM new
I think epier.com has been around for almost 2 years I think. When they first came up their home page looked exactally liked ebays,then they changed it some what.
posted on April 3, 2004 08:26:04 PM new
Classic...Just about every site that starts up looks like an Ebay clone. Epier seems to want to develop their own identity. I wish them luck and good fortune. My personal belief is that if a site wants to compete with Ebay, they have to be funded well enough for a couple years and establish a seperate identity to draw customers, both buyers and sellers. At that point, they will be approached by someone like AOL or Microsoft and a partnership will be created that has a chance to give Ebay a serious run for the money. The simple fact of the matter is that it's going to take a sugar daddy with big $$$ to even think about competing with Ebay.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 4, 2004 05:50:38 AM new
OK, so when we all reach our million dollar sales mark on Ebay this year (giggling and wishing but will never happen) all of us sellers can combine our marketing, advertising, research and customer service expertise and form an internet auction co-op and give EBay a run for their money.
Right????
:0( got my first negative feedback. Person left it BEFORE emailing me that she felt there was a problem. Although, her follow-up to the negative makes for good advertising - This seller stands by her products I wish I could take back the neg feedback. I think I can call this a positive negative feedback!
This now puts me in the same league as Ivory Snow and Marilyn Chambers - 99.9% LOL
posted on April 4, 2004 07:22:16 AM new
There are several auction sites on antique prints and they do quite well,charging bidders and sellers a 15% premium.
they are run by dealers who have been in business for a long time and they know their trade,so their reputation is behind the auction .
most of the time,the bidders do not know the individual sellers,unless it is a large collection coming from estate of a famous collector/dealer.
the dealer will examine the prints and classify and describe them,the open bid however is set by the seller.
so there is a way to compete with ebay,niche markets!!
just to have another epier or bidville or gold auction is a waste of time and money-throwing anything you dont want into cyberspace and hope some suckers will bite ,those days are gone,gone ,gone.
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Benjamin Franklin
