@gamersbaystore wrote:
ebay lost millions of buyers over the past 2 years, economists and ebay's investors alike have stated as much. What prices you have is irrelevant when there's no one shopping here. ebay needs to advertise, rather than pilfering every last dime in their coffers and handing it all over to investors who don't deserve it.
eBay is a well known brand name amongst just about everyone. What sort of advertising is going to draw people to a place with bazillions of listings reliant on searches on mobile real-estate with the screen size that of a coffee cup?
Sure, can change the site dramatically in order to service advertising such as done w/ eBay motors. Can have the eBay Game's store, eBay consumer electronics store, eBay clothes store on and on partitioning them as appearing as separated entities. Further partition that by storefronts, localization, nations of origin on and on. Then advertising can target specific demographics just as eBay motors does. Problem there is organic traffic to that not so popular is going to take hits. You can have hobby store, board gaming or maybe just gaming store, sports store, collectible cards store on and on but there is a segment of sellers ESPECIALLY those who are NOT specialized, they've variety that are now left in a lurch and there's allot of em', perhaps more than actually are product focal.
Another option is "Sale Days" whereby eBay promotes deep deep discounts and sellers need commit to those in advance with ORIGINAL pricing, aka: No price fixing, price fixing means said seller can no longer take part in said sales. Flea Market Day, Summer, Spring, Winter, Xmas, Clothes Days, Tool Days, on and on and on and promote via advertising targeting those days. And again, deep deep discounts, 40%-70% minimum just as retailers do online to "Compete for the dollar... the traffic."
Understand, there's not a single 3P venue that allows sellers to just "Do you're own thing" that are doing well these days, thriving. The consumer wants easy, trust, price, no problems and by very nature open ended 3P commerce venues have struggled with all three since inception. Bandaids such as Vero, authenticity, money back guarantee, feedback, metrics do not SOLVE any of the above three they simply cause less blood letting. Consumers who have problems tend exit as they've other places spend money. Sure, collectors different story because not many venues service them but collectors are finite, not infinite and value is what they care think value is, not what I care think value is.
That's why for example former game store was part of had a policy of, "Find title same condition in another game store in town we'd match it." Many indi stores do that because its about "Competing for the dollar" even Tire stores in my area do that. I'd four tires for my 2003 Suburban from a chain who matched Walmarts price per tire, that's near $50 cheaper per tire. Nice when it plays in one's favor not so much when it doesnt.
Like see folks here complain, "Why is eBay advertising another seller in my listing who's cheaper price! What do I pay them for!"
Well you haven't paid them until make a sale, if every seller cares pay base FVF fee's prior to sales I'm sure eBay be more than happy to go with that! Because eBay realizes the SITE is competition for the DOLLAR across all web venues that sell and brick and mortar. But can't get sellers "on that page" because for so long sellers have been, "Well its a venue, I run my own show!"
When the show doesn't work as expected it's eBay's fault. Nope. If you were to simply sit in, fly on the wall in engineering, marketing and corporate as they try deal with Mobile you'd say, "**bleep**... There is no answer. There is no solution." But there is, AI as well as a complete change of eBay's structure.
Regards,
