posted on April 27, 2004 04:30:19 PM new
Thanks a lot (sarcastic) ......for all of you that sang the praises of sellathon...I can't seem to do much else today but put the code on my existing auctions and keep checking it...........and checking and checking..........UUGGGHHHHH.
posted on April 27, 2004 05:20:30 PM new
You'll get over it in a few days.
Then you'll get a case of "So, why aren't they bidding?!?" crazies.
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posted on April 27, 2004 06:55:04 PM new
fluffys right.. I was doing that....... got like 75% on peoples 'watch' ........ and then say, why aren't they bidding? or WHY didn't they bid?
The one thing that is great is the keyword search. The stuff people put in search is amazing.
I don't think its something I'll buy, I'm still on the 30 day free trial. Maybe later, I dunno, can't really justify the cost of it.
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posted on April 27, 2004 07:16:36 PM new
I agree, for the first week I kept checking, got so excited when there were up to 10 watches on some items, but most ended without bids! I was more disappointed than I would have been, because I was so sure there was going to be a bidding war. I am sure that there are a lot of other sellers like me who save auctions to see what they end up at, without any intention of bidding.
A question. Recently someone on this board said that they could see what the amount of the buyers proxy bid was, I can't even decide who the bidder is! I don't find Sellathon that easy to use, but then I'm a senior!!
posted on April 27, 2004 07:22:48 PM new
amber, I saw that post too. I don't know how she saw the proxy bid. I've been all through and inside out of Sellathon (I thought!) , I can't find it, it may have been a glitch? If she came here and told us, I'd love to know this
Anyway, yeah, the keywords is what gets me, I feel my titles will soon look like keywords only, and not really a title! if I keep this up
Yes, the 'Stored in My eBay' is on sooooo many of mine, I just believe people save a lot of auctions, and forget about them.
If I am bidding, and that interested, I will bookmark the auction. I never use the watch feature, but thats just me
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posted on April 27, 2004 07:43:32 PM new
Amber & Near -- It was me, and I think that was a boo boo. I don't think I was supposed to see that!
Anyway, get "click happy". I did and that's how I learned Sellathon in no time. Just click on everything that you can and you'll figure it out. It's not hard. And the wealth of information that you will receive will be well worth the cost.
Near -- Who cares if your titles are only keywords? Mine are. I include a gallery picture for those who are browsing and I make my title all keywords. And you know what? My auctions are doing ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL!!!
posted on April 28, 2004 08:14:17 PM new
I can not get it to work on my auctions,I post through Vendio do you have to post through E-Bay to get it to work.
posted on April 28, 2004 08:36:15 PM new
MAH...I had to go into ebay and revise each auction. I couldn't get it to work through Vendio. If someone else has, please let us know.....
posted on April 28, 2004 08:49:04 PM new
It's very simple to put it into your auctions. Click the 'My Account' tab. Go into 'Custom Listing Text.' Put the code you were given at Sellathon into the very first box. Easy as pie.
posted on April 28, 2004 08:57:08 PM new
net, I tried that and I got an error. I am trying to do it with SMPro offline. I tried it directly with that and through My Account and still got an error. I used the same code on revisions and do not get an error. Go Figure..
edited to add.....I'll try again..Thanks
[ edited by cramer on Apr 28, 2004 08:58 PM ]
posted on April 30, 2004 10:25:53 PM new
I did what Net did and now the NEW items I create have it in them, but all items that were running on eBay before I joined sellathon, don't have it.
I assume I need to go back and retro it into the previous listings, but when I paste the code, etc. in the bottom of the description box, that's exactly what shows up in the actual auction, the HTML jibberish.
posted on April 30, 2004 10:54:57 PM new
You didn't get the complete code. Most likely you omitted the first "<".
This is a common error.
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posted on May 1, 2004 04:28:27 AM new
REALLYWONDERFUL: You have to make sure that the "revise your description" box is in HTML and not WYSIWYG mode - otherwise the HTML comes out as jibberish.
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posted on May 1, 2004 09:15:12 PM new
One thing that puzzles me, as I'm using ViewTracker: On the page where those people are touting the wonders of the program, there's a huge, wide display that purports to show about 16 different functions. I don't see that particular display on any of the screens. Is their display just for selling purposes?
And about those keywords showing up in our titles--there's nothing wrong with that! Several times I've listed, say, a book title and author's last name. Zilch. When I change the auction title to the zowie powie stuff in the book, I get bids. People may know what they're looking for but not know a particular title of a particular book. In other words, may not even know to search for that book!
And sometimes I've added a subtitle then with the title of the book and author, for clarification.
But who knows what really works?!?
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