eBay

amourdesvetements · ‎11-26-2018

eBay. Electronic Bay.

A place where folks would come and sell their items; old, new, handmade, you name it. Basically, a 24/7 flea market or bazaar made possible by the internet.

As eBay has grown, and technology has grown, so much has changed.

A lot of changes were good, welcomed even; such as mobile device access, upgrades on ebays website design, improved search functions, saving you from scrolling for hours (though the devil is in the details on that one).

I remember when things started getting a little...difficult...but I didn’t feel hijacked or anything. Now I feel like it’s sort of becoming “either you make us the money or we’ll just take it so...yeah” Now I feel like I/we are in the beginning phases of eBay phasing us out (no pun intended)

Please tell me your ideas on this:

established giant retail stores should NOT have an eBay page! Unless their selling used, marked-down, store returns, out of season, etc, type of items. I can’t tell if I’m being unfair with that idea. I mean, eBay competes with them. So, if u can’t beat em join em? Is that what’s going on? But I feel like the big brands; who look dumb having an eBay account—like they’re just a person, who needs this platform; are dissing eBay by using ebay’s platform and their own means to sell at the same time. And eBay is dissing us by letting big brands squash us in selling.
Promoted listing? Mmn...I feel like that should called “To Even BE ON The Playing Field” listing. “You have no hope otherwise” listing. “Tons of people can afford a way higher ad price than you, sh*thead” listing.
But! The worst part is, is that it seems like eBay HAS to do this; bc of its **bleep** competition. I hope people stay loyal and stay with eBay, forget [name of any popular selling app or place].

In summation, the good ole eBay seems to be far and gone. If we want it to be able to survive helping us survive, we gotta stick with it. If things get out of hand, hopefully a new eBay will arise, one with as amazing as a community as this one.

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks so much

Ash @amourdesvetements

m60driver · ‎11-26-2018

There are already new Ebay like venues arising that cater to the old school sellers but they tend to be more category specific. They are still not as large of markets as Ebay but people are migrating to these venues steadily as people cope with fraud returns and increasing fees. I have said before that I don't see Ebay surviving another 10 years unless perhaps being bought out by Jack Ma et al at Alibaba. But I see myself hanging on for a few more years as for those of us who will shamelessly sell anything Ebay will remain the best single venue to sell "anything".

dhbookds · ‎11-26-2018

Why shouldn't ebay be for everyone including big box, etc. ? They never said it was for only small sellers or that there wouldn't be competition. Of course way back, some sellers voiced the same objections to Diamond/Platinum sellers.

As to PL, for much of the time on ebay, there has been a way to pay to enhance the visibility of listings. Only during the time ebay actually sold the space to outside vendors was that not true........ Personally, I would much rather they sold that space to us than sending buyers offsite.......

castlemagicmemories · ‎11-26-2018

@dhbookds wrote:
Why shouldn't ebay be for everyone including big box, etc. ? They never said it was for only small sellers or that there wouldn't be competition. Of course way back, some sellers voiced the same objections to Diamond/Platinum sellers.

As to PL, for much of the time on ebay, there has been a way to pay to enhance the visibility of listings. Only during the time ebay actually sold the space to outside vendors was that not true........ Personally, I would much rather they sold that space to us than sending buyers offsite.......

I agree. There should be room here for everyone. The buyer who comes here for a big box store, may be inspired to search some more, and buy from a small seller. There is an advantage to being the place where you can find almost anything.

As for PL, I have watched an item for most of this year. It is a PL, and is badly borken and listed at a price that you would not expect to pay for this condition. After being listed like this for many months, the seller raised the price. It is still listed.

18704d · ‎11-26-2018

1) I don't compete with big box stores by listing new, homogenous items that can be found anywhere. So I don't care if eBay chooses to allow them here.

Thanks,

Lynn

Lynn

You love me for everything you hate me for

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emerald40 · ‎11-26-2018

If you are going to open ebay to big box stores, then you need to limit how many listings they can have across all their screen names. Big box stores and drop shippers, when they unloaded their 100s of thousands of listings, how does a small seller with 10 listing compete without getting swallowed up.

The last time I listed two of my listings got stuck in between a drop seller's 10,000 listings - never to be seen again. So easy to miss them when you are hurrying down a page or you do what I do - see how many listings he just dropped and divide by 25 and just skip that many pages to get around him. My only way now that my blocked seller list is to capacity.

emerald40 · ‎11-26-2018

@18704d wrote:

1) I don't compete with big box stores by listing new, homogenous items that can be found anywhere. So I don't care if eBay chooses to allow them here.

Thanks,
Lynn

I sell diamond jewelry. Why should I have to compete with drop shippers who are just copying the diamond data base. They do not obviously own all of these diamonds. And I have seen where they have listed diamonds already sold but not updated on the site. I know because two of the diamond listed by one big drop shipper here I own. I have the gia report to prove it.

You want to sell here - big or small- then you need to have the stock in hand. At least make it fair.

abeandsable · ‎11-26-2018

Yes , Ebay needs to compete but Ebay is not competting it is immitating and losing Instead of putting Large retailer adds on our pages: They need to give us a fee to "promote" their big box ad's "