@tour-van13 wrote:
No. Their fees are too high for selling an item. The point is for buyers, they have to look through pages of items just to find an item they might be interested in. Similarly on Amazon. You search a keyword and you get results that have nothing to do with what you are looking to buy. I was wrong when I said $1. Some sellers sell cheap items which wouldn’t make sense. I was mainly talking about coins. You hundreds of thousands of listings. Only a tiny percentage actually sell. Having said that, eBay’s search engine doesn’t allow me to provide facts on that percentage. They don’t show how many items in a certain category that are listed in a week versus how many sold
I know what you mean, I think...
Consider if you will, most sellers pay for advertising here, free listing but the ad costs money... These ads also thwart the order of cheapest item first even when "Lowest Price" is selected. Finding the cheapest item is not easy like it used to be because "paid" listings find themselves at or near the top of the search results and apparently the venue no longer has to mark those paid listings as "sponsored" which makes it impossible to discern one from another.
Often I find myself searching for what seems like a half hour just to find what I think is a good price (but it may not be the cheapest, I'm just done searching because I think after half an hour and having found a low price point that it's not going to get much better if at all).
And then there's the irrelevant stuff, yes that too...
Not to mention variation listings which are almost always simply abused for the purpose of getting clicks.
As someone else said, weed out the stupid by sailing past those listings / results.
And yes there are a lot of them, it's literally like having to find a needle in a hay stack.
Unfortunately I wouldn't expect much to change, we are talking about convincing stock holders and the CEO's (who clearly enjoy their massive paychecks) of it.
