Regards,
@greg5000 wrote:I've been a frequent Buyer since 2010 and was just about to setup a Sellers account, to sell things in anticipation of an upcoming move. Based on all I'm reading and seeing, and with serious Technical Issues plaguing the site (see some of my posts), I would not want to Sell on eBay.
Companies that don't listen to their Customers will always fail.
The other thing that happens in business is that when things get tight management looks at salaries and who they can get rid of ... often the Sales Department is a big target because those are some of the highest page people in the organization so the short sighted bean counters think they can reduce cost by canning sales people and THAT winds up being the kiss of death to the company because without a sale NO business has been done ... its business 101. Sales people are some of the smartest people in industry, while they don't have to design the rocket ship or build the rocket ship or maintain the rocket ship BUT they do have to know exactly how it works, how it is serviced and what the benefits are so they can sell it.
Apply this basic business principal to eBay and other online sales venues and when they mess with their sales people too much they will eventually find those sales people finding other ways and places to sell and make money ... because again, they are some of the smartest people around. When management does not listen to their sales people, who are on the front lines of business every single day, they are shooting themselves in the foot and ultimately the company crashes ... I think this may be one of the main reasons they are no longer at the top of the online sales industry and are constantly playing catch up with their competition ... which continues to grow every day.
@greg5000 wrote:If eBay wants to survive and play in the e-merchant game, all they have to do is set up two selling platforms within the site; one like the old eBay focusing on auctions (and without all the unwanted options, forced changes and fees), and one focusing on Buy It Now volume sales for small and large Sellers, like Amazon.
Amazon is already focusing on smaller Sellers with one or more items to sell, and collectable items are already heavily populating the site. If Amazon turns on an a full-scale auction platform soon, eBay will most likely lose much of it's customer base.
A lot of people will make the comment that Auctions are dead but the opposite could not be more true. There is an entire segment of the online industry that is continuing to develop their online reach from Auction sales. Auction houses are shifting a % of their weekly or monthly Auction items to a combination of live and online. Other Auction companies will go in to an estate and liquidate the entire contents of a home in 3 weeks ... that's about how long they advertise and have the Auction run and then each item ends with a Soft Close ... meaning as long as people keep bidding the item is alive and time is added ... it gets the most out of an item.
The companies doing this in our area started with NOT shipping anything but have slow progressed to where they partner with a local UPS Store or other Shipping store and when items are sold to an online bidder the put the bidder in touch with the shipper and let them work things out ... its a sweet deal to be honest, all sales are final and shipping issues wind being between the bidder and the shipper NOT the venue or the consigner ...
The process here is to cycle items off eBay when they have sat too long BUT are from a profitable lot ... they go to one of several local Auction houses to increase the profit margin AND to get rid of the items ... dropping things off then getting a check in the mail is a nice deal too.
