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Tough Road Ahead For eBay As It Battles Increased Competition
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| 09/25/15
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Posted on 09/25/2015 3:38:23 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
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10% final value fee(not counting listing fee)I'm sure has got nothing to do with it. Must be losing a lot of small margin sellers...with a combined 15% take between Ebay/Paypal.
The prices on a lot of items lately have been reflecting that also.
To: RckyRaCoCo
Ebay is now loaded with AdChoice garbage. Buyers are having a hard time paying for items because of all the ads. Sellers pages are freezing up because of all the ads. Buyers are now going to Amazon. Who ever is running Ebay now has run it into the ground.
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posted on
09/25/2015 3:42:03 PM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(Studies show that some people say experts agree!)
To: RckyRaCoCo
Blame Meg Whitman who started the road to ruin for eBay.
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posted on
09/25/2015 3:43:11 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
To: 4yearlurker
I have never had any of the issues you describe.
AdChoice isn’t on ebay. It’s on your computer. You need to have it removed.
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posted on
09/25/2015 3:45:19 PM PDT
by
Artemis Webb
(Let me know if you want on The Baseball Ping List)
To: RckyRaCoCo
That and the BS six month guarantee.
To: RckyRaCoCo
we are ‘tracking’ a dozen different items on ebay, waiting to be notified when someone offers nay of them for sale
we’ve had zero such notices in almost two months. curious, we’ve done some checking online and discover that many of the things ebay used to have MANY sellers of.....now there are none, or only a very small number.
it appears (very limited sampling, admittedly) that ebay has lost a tremendous number of sellers
we wonder if there is another website out there, especially for old ‘collectibles’.... that’s grabbing the market away from ebay?
insofar as ebay selling paypal, that seems to me at least to be a terrible business decision. in that the paypal franchise looks like it has great promise in a number of financial transactions and services niches
To: RckyRaCoCo
EBay takes 10% of shipping as well.
To: RckyRaCoCo
I used to always buy ebay but now I buy half Amazon too. There are lots of very active storefronts on ebay. Amaazon has nothing like this. But I usually buy from little guys on ebay who are selling what I want. Got a great deal on a hardly used juicer last month
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posted on
09/25/2015 3:50:29 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: RckyRaCoCo
I’m lucky that I’m able to buy real low and sell at a tremendous mark-up that just looks like a reasonable price to the average buyer.
Their fees only cut my margins from obscene to absurd. :)
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posted on
09/25/2015 3:55:14 PM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
To: dennisw
Heh, funny you should say that...I'm in the market for one myself. Thought about checking out thrift stores(good for stuff like that)...but who knows what(or who)'s been run through one of those.
Any tips for a beginner?(brands/types, etc.)
To: Artemis Webb
Just read the Ebay Forums. One has to opt out of Adchoice on Ebay (under site preferences) and every week you have to do it all over again. After 12 years Ebay sales are in the toilet. Lots of folks complaining.
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posted on
09/25/2015 3:58:29 PM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(Studies show that some people say experts agree!)
To: faithhopecharity
For a while I had a cast bullet business and was selling them as reloading supplies on e-Bay, in addition to various other things I would sell. Then their leadership enacted a policy that the cast bullets would no longer be allowed.
So now I do almost no business on there at all, except occasionally I will buy something there that is hard to find anywhere else.
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posted on
09/25/2015 3:59:18 PM PDT
by
Oberon
(John 12:5-6)
To: RckyRaCoCo
Sure hope they continue. I’ve just this week begun thinking of selling items on eBay. Need to read through all the seller rules, so have been putting it off...nothing is simple anymore.
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posted on
09/25/2015 3:59:47 PM PDT
by
Cedar
To: RckyRaCoCo
Beginning of the end for eBay started when they started forcing buyers to use paypal.
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posted on
09/25/2015 4:02:03 PM PDT
by
catfish1957
(I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
To: freedomfiter2
EBay takes 10% of shipping as well.
Ship a cheap “very heavy” item . . . not much profit for the seller there . . . In my opinion they got greedy and have lost their appeal.
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posted on
09/25/2015 4:02:39 PM PDT
by
Maudeen
(Sinner Saved by Grace)
To: RckyRaCoCo
EBay is as left wing as it gets. Good riddens.
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posted on
09/25/2015 4:03:19 PM PDT
by
jwalsh07
To: RckyRaCoCo
Years ago I sold authentic designer handbags, shoes, etc on eBay. Did quite well. Then they opened it up to China. My profits plummeted because there was so much fake stuff on there and people couldn’t tell the difference. I haven’t sold a thing on there since.
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posted on
09/25/2015 4:04:16 PM PDT
by
sheana
To: catfish1957
What hurt me the most is when Ebay started the buy it now had to be 30% more than the listing price. After 12 years my sales are almost nonexistent.
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posted on
09/25/2015 4:04:48 PM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(Studies show that some people say experts agree!)
To: catfish1957
Every six months they completely over haul the rules on sellers too.
It was rumored that the last CEO said he didn't like going to cocktail parties and saying he was running the "flea market" website. He wanted to be more like Amazon.
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posted on
09/25/2015 4:06:37 PM PDT
by
riri
(Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
To: RckyRaCoCo
Who has time to “watch” an item? If I need something, I’ll buy it outright. I don’t have time to play the game of watching my bid until the last seconds when someone will undercut me anyway.
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