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Anonymous
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     After 18 years on this platform, I've found greener pastures. Unfortunately, that's very easy to do these days, as I have no more commitment to this platform than this platform has for it's sellers.

     Happy to be going out with my TR status intact (for what little it's worth) and regret that I have but one membership to give.

 

     Adios, Amigos.......it was a blast until it wasn't,

     William

     

 

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We're you able to seamlessly transfer all of your listings to another platform? I am a full time Ebayer, and I am desperate to leave. I need to avoid a time consuming segway. Any advice?

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I expect that those #'s are not a true representation of the OP's actual sales.

I have over 10K sales, but if you look at my (XXXX) you would think not.

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Gonna grab a paragraph from another post, hang on.....

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Onward and upward, William. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors.

 

Sorry to see another top rated seller leaving. 

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Yes, I've only been a seller for the last 10 years of the 18 years I was on the platform. eBay says I've sold just over 2,000 items here and I've probably been stiffed on about 800 feedbacks to include what I've bought here.

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There's a few facts you haven't considered in your calculations.......I haven't been a seller here for all 18 years and I've probably been stiffed for @800 feedbacks both directions.

If ya gotta get one last troll in (SMH), at least be smart about it.

I left you a Helpful for your effort.

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It's been a pleasure, my friend.

Come see me over there and say "Howdy" in my stream sometime.

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Yep.....easy come, easy go.

Most sellers here don't need to be encouraged by me at this point.

Trust that.

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Streaming selling really only works for focused specialists with very low cost of goods. You don't get anything like the ebay price, but you usually sell everything every single time.  And by not anything like the ebay price, I mean $20 ebay items selling for $5 from people with huge followings.

 

I wish the original poster the best of luck, his stuff is exactly the sort of stuff that is good for streaming, focused specialty and low cost of goods.

 

Long term I don't think streaming selling is going to be great, the number of sellers wanting to get into it is insane, the main service is specifically only slowly expanding the number of sellers because the customer base just isn't there for the number of sellers that want to do it, if a few other services pop up it could quickly turn into a more streamers than watchers scenario, like all those people who stream video games.

 

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Just curious @onefootflipper  is this why eBay is adding the option to add video to your listings?  Trying to be an option for those who video stream?  I've not tried it but sometimes even 12 pictures isn't enough and a video stream could show the full picture of what you are selling.

 

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It's been rumored that eBay is thinking about bringing live streaming auctions to the platform.

Unfortunately, at their present rate of decline, the idea will probably outlive the platform.

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Well, I'm all squared up.....no money sitting here, listings deleted, no transactions pending, and have applied for closure.

Walking towards the light......it looks beautiful and feels peaceful there......

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Best of luck to you.  I am also thinking about moving my stuff to another place.  eBay was good when it was good.  Not any more.

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@d.amber wrote:

Just curious @onefootflipper  is this why eBay is adding the option to add video to your listings?  Trying to be an option for those who video stream?  I've not tried it but sometimes even 12 pictures isn't enough and a video stream could show the full picture of what you are selling.

 


I have started using the video function for Furbies, Animated Singing Christmas trees and things like that, so the potential buyer can see them in action.  However I see no point for video with 98-99 percent of my listings. I certainly don't want to really be speaking in listing videos, that just opens me up to INAD if I stumble, misspeak or am not heard clearly in the video.

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Don't need luck anywhere else......it functions as it should and is easy to work.

Thank you, friend.

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