@femmefan1946 wrote:
2. Working with retail and others reporting back chronic returners/chargebackers to the card franchises to get the bleeding stop. If they cant get cards they cant do damage.
It is very easy to get a credit card. I've been trying to end a card for a family member who is entering dementia. Practically impossible without a Power of Attorney.
Whether discussions between various businesses and banks to refuse cards to specific individuals would even be possible under laws governing monopolies and too close relationships is another question. What if the decision was to refuse cards to anyone with green eyes?
Card franchises already have the data but the problem is no matter the circumstances banks, card processors and the franchises make money coming and going. They make money on chargebacks, they make money on both the buyer and merchant end coming and going. Mass card theft is about the only zone where there is loss and since its distributed across countless banks its easily mitigated.
Example: When had merchant account when PC Games were the in thing our two biggest issues were declined cards obviously and stolen ones. We learned really quick they dont care at all about stolen cards towards the merchant, "If you think it stolen dont process it or reverse the charge" and they make money on reversing the charge. They care less about a perp. So me ex, politician, smart cookie creates a handshake mechanism and has me program up a mockup. Simple as you do a charge online and the consumer need validate it which they can do at their bank in person, any bank ATM or at their bank online. A bit more complex than that engineering wise but you get the gist of it. She presents it to Visa/MC and you'd think she selling snow to Eskimos literally. Deer in the headlights deal.
3. Working with retailers and manufacturers tightly coupled.
Most of the VeRO pulls seem to be either of used/vintage/secondhand items or of goods purchased On Sale from verified retailers.
While it might be useful to eBay to have those manufacturers using eBay as their factory outlet, it cuts off many of the resellers - us little guys.
Vero is clearly ineffective on order of scale just as Mamazon's is clearly ineffective on order of scale or Shop Safe would not be at play. Yes there is more at play, retailers do not want sellers performing arbitrage. Retailers and manufacturers, distributorships are not in the business of making cottage sellers money. So yeah, more at play. If any of us were Nike we'd likely be in same mode, why are unlicensed entities capitalizing on our product, make money. That costs our licensed entities sales, it costs us revenues and then there are the counterfeits which is HUGE and where they are sold.
Placing onus on Nike to be its police, well... Imagine it you with some product you produce. Yes, there are arrangements like Vero. I think a more mutually beneficial relationship makes much more sense. There has to be a REASON for Nike lets say to be cool with theBay. Sure free outlet store, fine, but anything Nike gonna be sold has to go to them or a contractor they have first, they authenticate, they resell it, they gift up a revenue share. Problem solved.
5. CREATE THE AUCTION MALL
I don't much care for auctions as a selling tool.
But I agree that a specialized Mall would be a Good Thing.
Just don't encourage the innocent newbies to use it. Make it an option they have to qualify for once they understand how to sell online.
The Auction Mall concept is not just auctions. It's an evolution of eCommerce that I and my ex created some 20 years ago and surprisingly no place to this day has ever implemented something similar. My ex (politician) presented it to a Mr. Tsuzak who was CMO of Mamazon at the time. She'd a relationship with him as we'd come to Mamazon from the likes of Onsale, iDeal, uBid, Auction World and others... BIG Business to Consumer points of sale. Amazon third party was auctions and zShops back then and VERY VERY open to dialog. Could argue that Amazons "Reverse Price" competition mechanism came from her presentation of The Auction Mall, but, they say no LOL. Doesn't matter. But all those terms used, "Anchor Tennant" etc were "Auction Mall." Concept is obviously larger than can be forum discussed.
7. Tiered FVF fee's based on selling price.
The better my prices the more I pay in fees?
Not too happy about that.
There is already a discounted fee on some very highpriced goods, as little as 2.5% on sales over $2,500.
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/store-selling-fees?id=4809
No... Its a dynamic balancing act. The only site I am aware of that did so was Surplus Direct and it put them atop business to consumer sales in the day surpassing Onsale which was #1. Dynamic tiers allows the small low ticket seller to grow, the volume seller to pay a bit more, the enterprise seller a bit more, the high end seller has most flexibility based on price and volume ratios PER product (not account level or categorical). This was actually suggested to Overstock.com and had they done so as well some other aspects they'd been a player instead of out of business.
8. Tiered Seller Metrics based on volume versus issues both short and long term.
I agree.
Feedback is a very very poor way for the buyer to measure sellers. EBay doesn't use it for that very reason.
The "behind the curtain" metrics should be a little more transparent. Not too transparent because no one wants the shifty seller (or buyer) to abandon accounts when they are getting too close to the line.
Yes indeed. Now the problem in visibility is the capability for buyer groups or competing sellers to push a competitors metric over an edge. All the sellers love the other sellers unless they are competition. Aye wella. But the "Cookie cutter" seller metrics really don't create a good fit for all types of sellers. High volume sellers see lesser impacts of problem transactions due to volume. Yet the volume seller having those issues is more likely drive customers off the site. Yet the seller with low volume has an issue and their metrics kill them. So an example: Seller "A" does widgets doing 16,000 a month, their feedback shows significant negative and neutrals but due to volume they are not very big impactors. But here sits a precious jeweler who has nowhere near that volume yet is making great revenues for eBay per transaction and may well grow investing more in the platform yet a few bad metrics and they are sunk.
10. Dead/Stale inventory auto-reduction abilities.
Under eBay control? As a seller of long tail and unusual items (in the past week I sold one book in stock since 2004 and another since 2009) I would not be happy with that.
But eBay used to add a Notice to Active Listings that had been unsold for over 16 months. This was a useful practice. So they dropped it.
No. An opt-in. Its hard to bargain shop here. So for example I've these widgets and I'm more than happy deep discount them as do tens of thousands of other sellers have things they'd like rid of.
Nothing more than "Marketing Manager" extension whereby "Clearance" as an option which limits percentile between 40%-90% off. Clearance items can be navigated as a collective, "I want browse all clearance on site", "I want browse all clearance sports cards", "I want browse all clearance toys", "I want browse all Lego clearance toys", "I want browse all womens clothes on clearance" etc.
If I were eBay I'd consider even binding accessibility to "Clearance Markdown" in relation to acceptable seller metrics assuming as I noted above that said metrics system was properly implemented. IMHO its not. So "Clearance" capability towards higher browse visibility is a Carrot whereby sellers are encouraged to better perform or not get access.
Regards,
