mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@femmefan1946 wrote:A good choice-- I understand that the eBay customer base leans to an older demographic.
https://smallbiztrends.com/2018/03/ebay-statistics-march-2018.html
@greg5000 wrote:
@tunicaslot wrote:Tagging - these from 2007 for the shop victoriously campaign are pretty bad - but at least they show vintage collectibles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh_uHh86y80&list=PL97EFB789DD08F23E&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j61kCcvm_pk&list=PL97EFB789DD08F23E
This is more to my liking where they let buyers know that there is new and old - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE9xfKsgjak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiLdP-itBzc
Thanks, I had fun watching these! Even the victoriously campaign ads were fun. This is the way eBay used to be ..... fun.
This ad was well done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxwjkXJYOOs&list=PL97EFB789DD08F23E&index=5
The actors and fun themes made the commercials work for me. I've never posted this before, but I've worked as an actor in TV/Movies from ~ 2011 to last year. This year I've been too busy planning a move to Hawaii.
Greg - LOL! I "knew" I've seen you somewhere before! 
About that move - I hope you have been there, spent time there before (not just a day or two) and know what you are getting into. I lived there for just over 5 years between Kailua and Kaneohe - courtesy of the US Marines. Glad I was blessed enough to go. And although it was pretty (no doubt in my mind it's the prettiest place on Earth - seeing the unusual flame and fan trees, wearing beautiful plumeria leis and muumuu's... - and so it had it's good moments. But I have no intention of returning, as just as many not so good memories left with me, too. My husband wants to go, but it'd be my luck that "goddess Madam Pele" of Hawaiian legend would become angry... 
Maybe one day I'll go for a visit just for him as everyone deserves to experience the glory of the land for themselves. I hope you will enjoy living there.
I worked part time in both Pearl Mall (the Tram was so cool!) and Ala Moana Mall, attended classes at UH@Manoa, even learned some of the language, went to a luau or 2 and did a few other touristy things. Maybe it was just being a WM, I don't know; I just felt out of place somehow ... but the stories I could tell...
Anyway, I wish you well. Two important pieces of advice to take with you if you don't already know, be sure to learn the difference in Kane and Wahine... (I wish I'd known before I got off the plane...) 🙂 And don't ignore the sunscreen as being that close to the equator can be devastating to your skin and health (I spent 20 minutes outside hanging laundry the first week I was there and ended up in the hospital with sun poisoning before nighfall) so it's serious.
Aloha.
@femmefan1946 wrote:
Thanks. That's what I thought I remembered seeing.
Of course, to complicate things, one reason advertisers want younger customers is that they hope the customer will like their product or service well enough to form a brand loyalty.
When DD went to university, in 1995, all the freshmen were given a Bank of Nova Scotia credit card, with a $500 limit.
York University has about 53,000 students.
The bank also arranged to be the bank that student loans would be issued through by default.
Sounds like a great way to cheaply get a lifelong client, eh? Good plan.
Except no one had explained to the BNS branch staff just off campus how that plan was supposed to work and the staff and manager were very hostile to students, slowing down loan payouts and sending out demands for payment if the student was not making monthly payments larger than the minimum.
I doubt any student became a BNS client after graduation.
Whether eBay needs the younger demographic is moot, but they keep getting born and we keep dying off.
Yes, people tend to think that it is mostly an older crowd that shops on Ebay and that simply isn't true. That certainly doesn't mean that Ebay doesn't need to do more to bring in younger people, because that will be something that needs to be done constantly.
But you are right. It is a circle that will never end.
