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mr_lincoln · ‎07-27-2019

I would promote and advertise the site as THE leader in vintage, antique, unique and rare items and add, "Oh, by the way, we sell new stuff too!"

Regards,
Mr. Lincoln - Community Mentor

fuzzface50 · ‎07-27-2019

"I would have Auction listings end with a soft close"

Not me. That is one reason why I sell here. My life is busy enough and I need my items to end at certain times

hioctane62 · ‎07-27-2019

@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:
Most of your suggestions would run off any good buyers that are left. No buyer is going to buy unprotected and put up with being trashed. That is so 1990s.

sellers are already complaining about the dearth of good buyers, sure send more away. Let’s go back to the days when buyers were ripped off instead of sellers. That will definitely help sales.

Before any of that... ebay would need to bring back the buyers and sellers they've already run off... and that seems to be their LAST priority.

fuzzface50 · ‎07-27-2019

soft close don't guarantee you more money, it teaches people to spend extra hours and days nibble bidding 1 increment at a time.

I participated in one that was supposed to end at 8 in the morning for a construction truck. I finally just went to work for the day because I couldn't just sit around and watch it till the nibble bidders quit. it ended at a little over 10 o'clock AT NIGHT, over 14 hours later. Who won? me with my single proxy bid done days before. . If it would have ended right at 8 that morning I could have sent a couple of guys over with the cash and picked it up but nope had to waste a second day on it. I don't always participate in soft close auctions unless I am serious about the item otherwise I just buy it somewhere else and that will cause the seller to lose money not make more.

The longest one I watched extended for an extra 32 days. that was a piece of real estate owned by the government.

Just think you could have sport bidders keep an item active all summer long until they went back to school.

alcoforever · ‎07-27-2019

@the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth wrote:
No buyer is going to buy unprotected and put up with being trashed. That is so 1990s.

I agree. But with an enforceable no returns policy, no buyer with any brains would ever buy from a seller with no returns.

As for trashing the buyer's FB, maybe those are not the kind of buyers we want anyway.

jocli76 · ‎07-27-2019

I would wish for world peace and give one complimentary eBay branded cupcake" to every seller with feedback over 10, then lastly, get my own apartment.

Cupcake size:

* Shipping not included

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flipper2flipper · ‎07-27-2019

For auctions, I would IMMEDIATELY eliminate the 30% Mandatory Minimum for a Buy-It-Now Price policy.

IF Ebay "is only a venue" ( as they have "claimed" since Day 1 ), then what business do they have in setting a Mandatory Minimum Buy-It-Now percentage ........ especially a minimum as OUTRAGEOUS as 30% !

If a Seller wants to set their Buy-It-Now price at 1%, 5%, 10%, 12%, etc. higher than the Auction's Minimum Bid, let the Seller DO that !

On my auctions, I RARELY get a buyer who is willing to pay a 30% premium over the auction's minimum bid to Buy-It-Now.

As a Seller, I would be THRILLED to get a buyer willing to pay a 10% premium over the auction minimum bid !

And I would bet that most Sellers would see a big increase in their auctions that ended with a Buy-It-Now price of THEIR choosing.

myjunqueyourtreasure · ‎07-27-2019

They should bring back the 10% higher BIN AND make BIN with auction and scheduled listing free for those who PAY to list

Reality is the leading cause of stress.

rockusone · ‎07-27-2019

@pburn wrote:
@mr_lincoln wrote:
I would also close the California office (high rent district and high salary area) and relocate the HQ to the geographic center of the lower 48 states ... that's about 2.6 miles northwest of Lebanon, KS. - population around 200 people so the town would see massive growth and of course everyone in town would be working for me except for the one lone Postal work who runs the Post Office there LOL!

I live about 150 miles northeast of there, in another state. Our state motto is, "We're not the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here."

Would be more appropriate if it said "We're not the middle of nowhere, but we're close."... jk

the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth · ‎07-27-2019

I and many other good buyers got retaliatory negative feedbacks in the old days. Given that I’ve had north of 15k successful transactions and that was the only neg I have ever left, I can confirm that I AM the kind of buyer most sellers want.

the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth · ‎07-27-2019

The 30% thing was added because many buyers complained that sellers were flooding auctions with fake auctions. They did it to gain exposure but what it did was annoy buyers and destroy the auction experience.

Nobody is going to bid on an auction when the BIN is $2 more. Those fake auctions frustrated collectibles buyers and drove them away.