Regards,
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:I'm guessing the OP means this:
https://www.ebay.com/b/eBay-Collective/bn_7116337831
This was launched in 2016, and I had pretty much forgotten about it. While that page is still there, I'm not too sure ebay has actually been doing much with it. Here's the 2016 Announcement:
https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-collective-provides-a-new-curated-experience/
Today, eBay launched a new destination, eBay Collective, an elevated shopping experience to provide interior designers and consumers with curated inventory of furniture, antiques, contemporary design and fine art. The bespoke experience has been specifically developed for eBay’s 164 million active buyers looking for sought-after products from trusted dealers and galleries. Dealers featured on the destination have been invited by eBay, and they meet eBay’s criteria to ensure a high-quality shopping experience.
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques I wasn't aware of the eBay Collective site ... they need electric trains on that venue, I volunteer LOL!
@stevemartin60 Interesting thread and topic and even with my experience I learned something new from this. Is the eBay Collective something you would want to be part of? They may also require a certain amount of sales volume from Sellers they invite to be part of that program, not sure about that but your account might be considered a low activity one from a Selling standpoint, at least on this ID you have posted with.
In about 8 years you have 245 sales and based on your Feedback count you must purchase more than you Sell. So boiling down the overall average sales for that time period it comes out to about 2.5 sale per month. You have I think 8 sales this year already which equates to about 2.6 per month this year.
You have some nice items for sale but I can imagine that paintings may take longer to sell then other categories. Perhaps you have other avenues you sell on or collect and use eBay sales to help finance purchases ...
In any event, again, thanks for this thread, I appreciate learning something new ... I checked out that eBay Collective site ... I personally wish they would break off one JUST for collectibles.
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:
I just noticed....a lot of the left hand category links on the "ebay collective" page don't link to what they are supposed to link to. And the actual link for the ebay collective provided in the 2016 article doesn't link to the ebay collective page LOL
In short, I suspect it's safe to say that the ebay collective was probably quietly dropped sometime between 2017 and today.
elizabeth@ebay devon@ebay kyle@ebay Could you guys check into the current status of the "ebay Collective", which, as noted in this thread, was launched by ebay in 2016? Is this still an active thing, and if not, when did it end?
Hey @my-cottage-books-and-antiques! We can look into this and once we have some more information we will be sure to share it.
Devon,
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques wrote:@mr_lincoln Just to be clear, while that "ebay collective" PAGE exists, I strongly suspect its a zombie page, and the ebay collective itself is dead. Waiting for an answer from the Blues on that.
But this was like an early version of today's emphasis on "Focus Categories" (sneakers, high end watches and handbags, etc). As has so often been the case (remember "ebay Express"?) ebay launches new stuff and then fails to follow through, and sometimes they announce the end, and sometimes they just quietly abandon the project or feature.
it's always possible that something like Art and Antiques could become the next Focus Category, but so far, ebay hasn't even hinted as to the next category, and we went all last year and nearly the first quarter of this year without a new launch, so pretty hard to know whether they actually have anything planned for this year (They have said they do, but if so, they are playing iot close to the vest.)
@my-cottage-books-and-antiques Yes, I gathered a lot of that from posts here but the concept I think is a good one IF (as you implied) eBay were to follow through on it. They are quick to skim off additional Fees from Sellers for promoting their items, but I fail miserably with promoting their own venue(s) ...
