Support the little guys

[calicorecordsandcds]

Why don't the big companies i.e. the ones with 100s of thousand of listings stop with the auto pricing and driving the prices down so low that the small businesses cannot sell here.  Why do you have to be the bottom price all the time.  And whats up with multiple listings by same seller on same item to drive other sellers off front page?  And whats up with multiple accounts for selling?  Avoiding Ebay fees?  Greed is an ugly thing.  I would be happy to not have to be fighting auto pricing and to share the bottom price with every person listing item imagine that our profit imagine would skyrocket for all of us.  Yes you would have to share the buyers but, you would make much more a copy.
I have seen that the ones guilty of being price **bleep** are the big time companies at least in the music departments.  Some are Distributors that sell B2B then price out the very people they sell to online.  Greed.
I wish ebay would step in and put some limits on these companies so they can still make sales but, not strangle the little guys.

[coolections]

I would never raise my prices just so you can sell your stuff. If you are competing against someone that has cheaper prices you will need to learn to adapt. Just an example is your cheap trick cd. I will sell cd's for $9 shipped. You want $13.

[calicorecordsandcds]

You totally missed the point of my conversation.  But ok great you sell for $9 shipped with free returns if I meet that and we both sell for 9$ shipped with free returns we share the price.  I was not asking anyone to raise prices.  I was simply saying the price Who$% are killing the little guy case in point I could run you down to the $5 range on the CD you mentioned.  How would that be for you?  I won't though because I know that there are others like yourself that are trying to make a living.  The big big companies don't care in fact they are out of control right now.  When distributors are selling on Ebay for $2 more than I can get an item B2B wholesale that is just wrong.

[itscalledapostingid]

Are you suggesting ebay put some sort of limit on how low an item could be priced?

That would be illegal.

[calicorecordsandcds]

That is not at all what I am suggesting............read again.

[itscalledapostingid]

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@calicorecordsandcds wrote:

You totally missed the point of my conversation.  But ok great you sell for $9 shipped with free returns if I meet that and we both sell for 9$ shipped with free returns we share the price.  I was not asking anyone to raise prices.  I was simply saying the price Who$% are killing the little guy case in point I could run you down to the $5 range on the CD you mentioned.  How would that be for you?  I won't though because I know that there are others like yourself that are trying to make a living.  The big big companies don't care in fact they are out of control right now.  When distributors are selling on Ebay for $2 more than I can get an item B2B wholesale that is just wrong.

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You say you have free returns but you charge a 35% re-stocking fee. That's against the rules and also a version of fee avoidance.

[itscalledapostingid]

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@calicorecordsandcds wrote:

That is not at all what I am suggesting............read again.

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Ok I read again and you said "share the bottom price with every person listing item imagine that our profit imagine would skyrocket for all of us.  Yes you would have to share the buyers but, you would make much more a copy.."

There were some sellers on another marketplace who got in a lot of trouble for doing that on DVDs.

[rabites-n-chocobos]

What are you doing here? This is a marketplace where sellers sell things. Price is an important metric for selling an item. Do you not understand that? Lemme give you a rundown....I spend a bunch of money to buy some things that I think will sell at a higher price. I then price those thing to sell for a profit of what I bought them for. I will undercut the competition if I can make a profit, if I can't make a profit, than I have failed at my job.

[fab_finds4u]

It's a dog eat dog world.

[the_fancy_fox]

Some sellers buy in such volume they can price lower and still make a decent profit. 

Some have contracts with the carriers and get special pricing so their costs are lower.

I get around it by selling items the big sellers don’t sell.

I understand your rant but to answer your question as to why, the answer is because they can.

[chapeau-noir]

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@fab_finds4u wrote:

It's a dog eat dog world.

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Now that I think of it, I've never actually seen a dog eat a dog.  I once saw one eat a paper plate along with his table scraps, though.

However, you are right.

[richard1rst]

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@the_fancy_fox wrote:

I get around it by selling items the big sellers don’t sell.

BINGO !!!!!!!!!!

[luckythewinner]

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@calicorecordsandcds wrote:

I wish ebay would step in and put some limits on these companies

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I do not think eBay is going to invest time and money developing a tool to insulate sellers from their own poor inventory choices.

[vintagecraze50]

Yep, that’s the way you do it here. You do not compete for the exact same stuff. You find a niche where you can thrive.

[vintagecraze50]

I have found with the particular brand we sell that these big time folks have de listed their stuff on here big time because they do not want to pay ebay the fees, so they just sell on their own websites. They have to price their stuff so high on here that they do not do it anymore. There used to be over 20,000 listing for this stuff here and now there is about 6 to 7 thousand. These are not nickel and dime items though, they are items priced in the 200 to 1 grand range. The nickel and dime stuff they just sell with 100,000 listings and somehow make a profit.