Would you go to other platform?

[odnd_vintage_audio]

Hi all,

A simple question:

Would you go to other platform that not interact with you and your buyer, only charges a fee for listing not for the sell.

Kind regards,

OD&D

[southern*sweet*tea]

Listing fees?  Oh heck no. I'd rather pay an FVF on an unproven site.

No interacting w/buyer and seller? Maybe, it would depend solely on the venue and the type of buyers and sellers. Some of these sites where the venue takes a "hands off" approach are full of scammers, both buyer and seller. Too easy to lose money or merchandise.

[nowthatsjustducky]

I already have a couple other sites I sell on, and one that I at least list on, even though traffic is completely dead there.  Don't have time right now to try another site, and when time does become available, I already have a couple others waiting in the wings to be brought back online.

[castlemagicmemories]

That site sounds questionable for both buyer and seller.  No buyer protection, fees for something that may not sell.  Listing fees became passe a long time ago.

[nowthatsjustducky]

Actually, I would like to interject that lack of buyer protection should really be a non issue.  That is really the domain of the payment processors (PayPal and CC for example).  The venues should not be involved in the protection racket at all unless they are also the payment processor (Etsy Direct Checkout and Amazon as examples).  And then, they should only be getting involved if they handled the payment for that transaction.

Having the venue as well as the payment processor playing the protection game makes it too easy for shady buyers to have more than one trip to the pig trough.

[castlemagicmemories]

@nowthatsjustducky

Thank you!  New perspective for me, and I learned something to boot!

[mistwomandancing]

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outlaw-recording-and-pa-equipment wrote:..........Would you go to other platform that not interact with you and your buyer, only charges a fee for listing not for the sell.

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Probably not.  That site would have to produce a lot of SALES in exchange for those listing fees charged, else they wouldn't be worth the interest.  I don't mind paying listing fees... IF they result in sales, but a site has to prove to me there will BE sales resulting from listing there before I'd do more than just dabble there and dump them fast if results were poor.

But I wanted to mention to you that a lot of eBay sellers already DO list on other sites as well as just here on eBay, so many are pretty well versed on what costs are in relation to results.

[castlemagicmemories]

Not that I didn't know that there was Paypal buyer protection, and your credit card as the last resort, but just didn't put it in this context.

[dhbookds]

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@odnd_vintage_audio wrote:

Hi all,

A simple question:

Would you go to other platform that not interact with you and your buyer, only charges a fee for listing not for the sell.

Kind regards,

OD&D

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Nope.........payments upfront put no pressure on the site to deliver sales......  It would make more sense for them to spend time soliciting sellers since that's where they make their money, rather than advertising for buyers........

[luckythewinner]

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@odnd_vintage_audio wrote:

A simple question:

Would you go to other platform that not interact with you and your buyer, only charges a fee for listing not for the sell.

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A simple question in return: 

Does the website have a proven record of attracting millions of buyers who actually purchase items?

Or would it be just another one of the hundreds of ecommerce websites with low fees and zero sales? 

I spent years listing on ecrater, bonanza, and webstore - and the three sites combined amounted to just one sale for every one hundred sales I got on eBay. 

[coolections]

Are you asking that no one gets involved when a buyer purchases an item. So if a buyer gets scammed by a seller there will be no protection ? That is how Ebay started out and it became a failure so as a seller going to that type of platform would probably not work. Buyers would purchase items and never return so the sellers that stayed would be stuck there with no traffic.

[pantlandia]

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@odnd_vintage_audio wrote:

Hi all,

A simple question:

Would you go to other platform that not interact with you and your buyer, only charges a fee for listing not for the sell.

Kind regards,

OD&D

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Nope, did that with Etsy (although I still paid a FVF in addition to the listing fee) and ended up $50 in the hole before I bailed. No thanks.

[moondogblues]

I also tried Etsy...crickets....as well as Bonanza, and 3 big book sites...nada, nothing. maybe one sale for every 50 here.

And I hate to say it, and I don't sell here anymore for a variety of reasons but the Bay still has the magic.

[castlemagicmemories]

I think sellers prefer paying a final value fee on something that has sold, rather than a listing fee for something that might not sell.

It just makes sense.

[odnd_vintage_audio]

Hi all,

I see that the most comments are absolutly clear about fees in front.
So seller prefer to pay a fee at sales then fees for uploading an item.

Is that different if an upload cost you i say 1 euro, and there is no other fees for selling your item.

So 1 euro and no other costs involved?

Also i see an issue about the platform idea to do not intervering in claimes about buying with paypal or delivery problems.

So the platform must be involed at disputes between buyer and sellers.