Posted on 01/19/2005 2:55:35 PM PST by Lokibob
I buy and sell antique car parts on ebay. I remember going to swap meets, spending 2 boring days out in either hot sun or rain and dealing with hagglers with no money.
Since '98 I've been selling on ebay and get on average 100-200% or more $ on ebay and 99% of the time the item sells on ebay and I don't have to lug it home. I'll gladly pay the 8% more.
Besides there is no place to go for antique car parts and get the exposure other than ebay.
I got to read it right before it was pulled; Very clever. :*P
What's the name? I was checking out epier.com and think that looks pretty good but I haven't joined it yet. I did send off an email to google suggesting they start up an auction site. If ebay had ANY real competition they'd think twice before gouging the sellers.
I have bids on snow blowers and throwers on Ebay currently. I went to the other site you mentioned and searched for the same and got no items listed.
That is a problem.
Although I did get to view some really cool JT Snow baseball cards.
What's the name? I was checking out epier.com and think that looks pretty good but I haven't joined it yet. I did send off an email to google suggesting they start up an auction site. If ebay had ANY real competition they'd think twice before gouging the sellers.
Oops, I didn't mean to post that twice.
The reason for the stock drop is that they just announced results.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6844755/
But they missed estimates, even though they made crazy money.
There is too much garbage there anymore for me to make the effort. I just spent 30 minutes looking for a phone system and it was a monumental waste of time. And if you have problems, you're pretty much on your own.
From the URL provided:
"This listing (6505708303) has been removed by eBay. Make sure that you've entered the item number correctly."
bidville.com
I overstated the membership. They have 3,000,000 items listed, not 3,000,000 members. Sorry.
You are giving your opinion -- why would that be inap?
I'm a small seller on ebay (have a store and auctions) and am really upset about these increases. Some have told me about overstock.com having auctions and giving ebay some competition. I looked at the site earlier and they offer 67% savings over ebay with free gallery photos. What's your opinion?
It's sad that eBay's pulling this, but it's their site, their rules. More's the pity that they have the market mindshare cornered. Every other online auction site comes off as a cheap imitation compared to eBay.
Ebay expects that their bottom line will go up, but I really doubt it.
Only time will tell. Me, I pretty much expected this of eBay. Like a garden variety dope dealer, they got enough people hooked on their brand and now they're sticking it to 'em. Nothing new here.
I have avoided EBay like the plague, have heard WAY too many horror stories about people getting ripped-off...
I'd love to use it, as a guitarist it would be a great resource.
I have noticed a lot of deceptive shipping fees. They will list an item for 10 bucks and charge 20 bucks shipping. I always check out the shipping charge when comparing prices.
Four years of buying various things and I've yet to be ripped off. It's one of the first places I look to buy small, easily-shipped things.
I have been using pay pal to sent money to FR and I got an email from pay pal that they are raising the fee that they charge to the people who take pay pal.
I am going to start sending checks to FR instead of using pay pal.
I havn't really looked into overstock, concentrating right now on bidville.
bidville offers free relists up to 20 of them. So they are pretty much maintenance free once you get started.
there is nothing wrong in opening stores in a whole bunch of auction sites, if you can keep up with the relisting.
I intend to keep using paypal until their fees go up.
They should be to halping it along even! Maybe this fee hike is one way of doing so. It sure gives a marketing opportunity to the competition.
Foolish to say nay -- lookee what happed to Ma Bell, to Microsoft, to the biggee of 'em all -- STANDARD OIL -- to every company that grew into a monopoly in a potent market. The wolf packs -- the wolf hordes -- of politicians, unionists and social activists chewed it to pieces in ways it had NO CONTROL OVER, in ways that were greviously PARASITIC, rather the SYNERGETIC and symbiotic ways of free market competition.
Seems to me that Overstock.com is doing a fair job of marketing themselves in the regular media now, and the BidVille is doing a fair job in the insider buzz-marketing. And then you have Craig's List, too.
More power to the competitors! Hooray for free markets!
Thanks and that is a great idea to open multiple stores at different auction sites, weed them out until I find a place that suits me. Have you signed the ebay petition yet, it has 18,000 plus signatures so far.
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