@sextons-sweet-deals wrote:
I will make a few comments on your post.
eBay should work for us sellers and buyers to bring a positive / even selling format, but eBay always sides with the buyer no matter what the seller provides for them to review in most cases. That is an invitation for more scammers to come aboard and create more fake profiles to scam.
eBay does no advertising! I still view TV adds like Mike and his pillow **bleep**, if you have this pain, then you need this medication, and probably one of the most stupid adds recently is the Botox for migraine headache treatments. I don't hear anything on the radio about eBay.
Why does our government / TV networks allow this false advertising? $$$$
You pay a fee for Amazon as a seller or as a buyer who thinks they need that items in less than 24 hours when they could just get off their butt and go to the local store before going to work or coming home from work and get the item they need and not pay an annual fee for a self-gratification fix.
Bad consumers are nothing new either online or in retail and it's a he said/she said ordeal. Online its rather more haphazard due to sheer nature and existed in mail order long before the web. I was partner in a game store many moons back and not two/three days go by that someone not try run a scam on us or we find items gone, stolen. Buyer centric is nothing new, credit card companies been that way for ages even when presented ways to avoid problems such as even card theft.
Would we rather the traditional? Buyer does chargeback and at the very least it costs the seller $50 each every time plus $25 each time need respond to a claim. Aka: "It wasn't new" Response, "Yes it was, here's photo," $25. "No it wasn't..." Yes it was, "$25 more. That's standard merchant account and if not responding one can loose ability to accept cards and/or have their discount rate increased as "risk." Why am I now paying 3.5% every card processed vs 2.5%? "I didnt' respond to those three chargebacks for $5 sales."
How would you defend against those who scam, accounts removed, they make another?
You can't LIMIT what a consumer can spend with their credit card, that's a breach of merchant processing on the highest order.
"Sorry you're new here, you can spend only $100."
"But I've done nothing wrong!"
"Yeah well... Prove it and its in place to protect us."
That's Goodbye merchant account 101.
First thing understand my friend is the banks/processors make money coming and going no matter WHAT happens. The ONLY time they get itchy scratchy is when there's a huge credit card breach affecting buckets of people. There's the very root of the problem.
There are also bad sellers, many many many many of them. In any he said/she said environment who's right and who's wrong? I've returned items to Walmart w/o any issues and Walmart either sends it back to the consignor or off it goes to Jacobs trading for reclamation. Ever see the buckets of pallets Amazon sells off? That's commerce and is what it is.
We'd roof put on and a windstorm came and tore up half a dozen tiles resulting in the insurance carrier forcing the operation to fix it, $0.
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Advertising... eBay is a globally known brand by anyone who shops online. eBay does advertise its focal categories that are it's bigger revenue generators. I've advocated for things such "Garage Sale Days!" once a month, "Sporting Goods Blowout Weekend..." Bi-monthly along with requirements for sellers to engage it. That's something worth advertising. Ya' gotta have a hitch to get the trailer to follow.
Now how other places advertise like Botox or Pharma I find astonishing, people buying in on a product based on an animated bowel. Says something more about the consumer than the corporation not to mention all the happy faces of people with chronic diseases whereby medications show handful's of people delighted.
I see Pink animated Bears happy they wiped they're tooshies with Charmin. Call me a crazy but I've a hard time processing, "Well if an animated Bear is that delighted boy howdy that's the stuff my Tooshie deserves!"
I just dont think eBay be too awful successful with a computer generated Gecko in a boat demanding be brought ashore more than likely due to the R/C boat sinking vs some kid at the controls.
Have to have a hitch and IMHO a GREAT hitch are things like "Garage Sale Days."
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With Amastone I presume you're speaking of Prime which comes with many many value added perks such as many many free movies, music and more. Apparently also loosing money in doing so?
If you're speaking FBA, FBA wasn't geared towards small vendors albeit some like use it perhaps towards not having as many buyer claims. For example, was a place over the border in Ontario Canada that did all media supply for Big Lots, Ollies, Freddy's and then some. They stopped all of it... Instead, having the tractors trailers bring the stuff to Amazon facilities, list and done. We used to buy from em' direct back in the day as heaps and heaps and heaps of merchandise heads over the border to avoid capital asset for entities such as Target and others... Literal warehouses stacked to the ceilings with everything imaginable for Quarters of the dollar with $150,000+ minimum's. Why worry about end consumer fulfilment getting $2 more a unit when said time can be spent procuring more.
Why I say to folks who try compare Amazon to eBay there is a whole lot of difference between Amastone's and eBay, more than actually is in common but the consumer doesn't see that.
NOW... If I had my "Druthers" I'd have eBay hire me working directly under the CMO as the fella to help cure many an eBay woe. For example I'd put forth "eBay assurance" whereby both seller and buyers who care opt in do get more protections via an upfront costing that comes with perks like a Pandora or Sirius XM Account and Subscription to say Brickseek or some such things.
I've ideas how to raise eBay back up significantly, pouring out my skull in fact as a developer with marketing savvy but here I sit talking about Bears and Toiler Paper.
