mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
I sold on Bonanza for a couple years. Whoops "sold on" is really misleading. I had listings up on Bonanza for a couple years. I sold exactly ONE item. I did not pay for any higher tier advertising. If you can't sell anything as a regular seller AT ALL, why would I want to pay them more money. I could see it if I was selling as a regular member and that a higher tier to increase sales. But not to get sales in the first place. Well maybe get sales.
For me, a complete waste of time.
I, too, had a shop on Bonanza. No problem having all of my items on ebay and Bonanza at the same time. Sales on Bonanza were dismal, so if I did sell something, it was easy to end the ebay listing (and vice versa). I closed the Bonanza shop several years ago. Waste of time.
@cashvaluerecovery2011 wrote:
I love ya but i have to lol. What you said fits ebay exactly as well. Why would you opt to pay ebay more fees (raised fees already---and the promoted listings to boot) and not bonanza? People are literally saying daily "down 80% here" but paying promoted listings will help.
If higher tiered promos caused more sales fees to be generated there wouldnt be a fee charged to promote it. These companies would obviously do it on their own to gain sales and market share. They do not generate more sales. They generate a profit for the site and loss of margin for the seller.
If you have only had one sale on Ebay in two years, then there is something significantly wrong for you if you are a regular seller with listings up year round as I was on Bonanza. Your sales history for the past 90 or so days on Ebay doesn't support that statement.
I never said that Ebay raised their fees recently, that was someone else and I have absolutely no clue as to what they were referring to.
As for promotions, I also didn't say I do promoted listings. I don't use them at all. At least not so far. And when a seller decides to run a promoted listing or listings, the seller is in control of deciding how much in additional fees they are willing to pay. There is no fee for promoted listings unless a sale happens.
So NO, I don't pay Ebay additional fees to get sales.
SOME people are saying their sales are down and yes there has been some that say it is 80%. Some does not even come anywhere close to meaning a majority of sellers and certainly not all. I think you are assuming some things that are exactly accurate.
Absolutely some sellers have and are complaining about declining sales. That happens year in and year out on Ebay. No matter what is going on. That doesn't mean everyone is having the same experience. As is the nature of threads and communities such as this, people come here to complain and vent. Others come here to help and learn. A feel good story is just not a regular occurrence on threads. They happen from time to time, but not the norm. So what you see on the threads lean one way. Things that they perceive Ebay is doing wrong.
Now for me specifically summer sales are typically slow for me. Things begin to pick up late September and continue to grow. January and February are typically my best months of the year. This year has been different. I had very good sales during most of the summer. It started declining in August, nothing unusual there and is now picking back up in the way I'm use to. So I did not see the decline in sales over the summer that others reported. I just didn't say anything because I didn't think it would help anyone and I have no need or desire to make someone feel bad.
So I think you misunderstood my post.
