eBay

pocomocomputing · ‎03-17-2015

http://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/springupdate2015/

http://pages.ebay.ca/sellerinformation/news/springupdate2015/

rose-dee · ‎03-18-2015

@reallynicestamps wrote:

I'm going to keep it though because I think the ability to sort my items into categories is worth the $10 a month.

Yes, if they can just get the darn categories to display properly. You may not have noticed, but the categories have been AWOL for weeks now on individual item views. The eBay staffer says they're "working on it".

cumos55 · ‎03-18-2015

The fee Illustrator has not been update to the new fee structure..

Just ran it for books... and it still reflects insertion fees, the same for all sellers, with or without a store, or which level of store, as of today and not the new fee structure to come on May 1.

The fee structure will be a most significant change on May 1.

Today I would do well with a Basic store...

But on May 1... I will have an Anchor store.. mainly because of the 5 cent listing fee in relation to 2500 free listings, and then the store fee...

I did my calculations with a pencil, paper and calculator.....

cumos55 · ‎03-18-2015

and... If you have not listed on eBay.com before.... the following applies.

Domestic shipping means shipping to US destinations....

Shipping to Canada is international shipping.

There once was a very interesting and unique listing.

New eBay seller listed on eBay.com..... a piece of Blue Mountain Pottery... and only wanted to sell to Canadian buyers.

Seller blocked international shipping ....effectively blocking all Canadians from buying from him... Seller lived in an Ontario city....

art-in-the-making · ‎03-19-2015

Many interesting posts!

Whereas we have gone the route of increasing the number of listings to survive in the free/promo/10-cent listing universe, there are still one or two artists doing pretty well with running auctions only and maybe 15 max at any time.

It would certainly beat rotating 10,000 listings in and out!! btw do you know how they do that cumos?

cumos55 · ‎03-19-2015

That book seller that rotates inventory is a computer "specialist"

He uses a spreadsheet...... nothing complex.

and his different spreadsheet options were applicable to different book sites.

He was selling on the internet when the internet was in diapers!

and he is one step away from full retirement.... but his retirement is like telling a horse not to eat hay..

It is what he does to stay functional.

cumos55 · ‎03-19-2015

and then......

There is a book seller on eBay.com that works with millions of listings of books....

I have seen his counts change in the millions .... almost overnight

art-in-the-making · ‎03-19-2015

wow - boggles the mind. Still, it's interesting to know that these things are done successfully.

julieo459 · ‎03-21-2015

Just wondering how much time it is going to take for everyone to check to see if they have received their listing fee credits. How many calls to customer service? It will be interesting.

treasure.hunter.d · ‎03-21-2015

Maybe I'm wrong about this and have missed this previously as I am loathe to use auction format except when a promo makes it free, but I am noticing now that when I am listing something in the auction format I am being encouraged by a little Ebay message at the pricing section to start my auction at .99 cents to attrract more buyers.

Is this new? I'm sure that most are in agreement that it is absolutely retarded to start your auctions at .99 cents so why on earth is Ebay now encouraging you to do so?

More foolishness from the brain surgeons at Ebay it would appear.

cumos55 · ‎03-21-2015

An auction on eBay needs something I call... Bidding Room.

Bidding is defined by when the listing ends...

Start it at 99 cents and you might get $10

Or it may sell at 99 cents.

If it starts at $750... you may get a higher price... if the start bid was "correct"

The rule is to start it at a price where you would be willing to sell with one bid.... and one bid it is many times.

May times I have seen a quality book sell at a low.. very low price..... while I sell the same or similar character book for a lot, and sometime lots more.

Listing at a start of 99 cents is suicide...

Imagine listing a first edition copy of Darwin's Origin of the Species at auction... and starting at 99 cents... a definite '' No.. No"

Because a copy recently sold for about $80,000 US..... Start it at $75,000 in an auction listing... and it should sell well at auction...

Start at an acceptable price and allow for Bidding room... and if it sells at the start price... there would be no problem.

I will take $75,000 any day

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In the Spring Update eBay is very specific as to where auction listings will be effective... Collectables....... for owners of a store...

and with no recommendation for 99 cent auction listings

I suspect that at sometime in the future... eBay will dictate where auction listings will be allowed.

rose-dee · ‎03-21-2015

@treasure.hunter.d wrote:
Maybe I'm wrong about this and have missed this previously as I am loathe to use auction format except when a promo makes it free, but I am noticing now that when I am listing something in the auction format I am being encouraged by a little Ebay message at the pricing section to start my auction at .99 cents to attrract more buyers.

Is this new? I'm sure that most are in agreement that it is absolutely retarded to start your auctions at .99 cents so why on earth is Ebay now encouraging you to do so?

More foolishness from the brain surgeons at Ebay it would appear.

I run very few auctions, but last time I did, I saw that silly $0.99 cent message and wondered about it too.

Perhaps eBay was running a test to see whether such low starters would actually still sell at auction, and if so, in which categories. Perhaps this fits in with the Spring Seller Update, where auctions are being squeezed into a bit of a corner.

Who ever really knows why they do what they do -- eBay often does things that look idiotic on the surface, but I suspect they always have an agenda "behind the scenes".

cumos55 · ‎03-21-2015

I have been going to local auctions, both city and country, for about 35 years...

First it was as a buyer..... and now it is as a seller and sometimes buyer

I have worked many auctions as well.

Price is controlled by the bidders.. primarily... Yet the auctioneer has control on the start price... and the bid increments as well .....and the speed of the bidding.

Bidders do not hesitate because they know they may lose the purchase...

At a local auction bidding is not controlled by an end time.... such as occurs on eBay....

The bidding continues until bidding ends. Imagine artwork that starts at $500 and continues at a local auction until it sells... to a telephone bidder.... bidding against a person in the audience.... final price $25,000 ...... with no time constraint on the sale... The audience was dumbfounding by the final price... an unexpected end price

This auctioneer was not affected by this reality... He has sold many high priced artwork with a record of about $42,000 for a W. J. Phillips painting...

And above all... after 35 years... my heart does not go into overdrive when I bid.... not like it did on that very first purchase in the early 1980's

treasure.hunter.d · ‎03-21-2015

@rose-dee wrote:
@treasure.hunter.d wrote:
Maybe I'm wrong about this and have missed this previously as I am loathe to use auction format except when a promo makes it free, but I am noticing now that when I am listing something in the auction format I am being encouraged by a little Ebay message at the pricing section to start my auction at .99 cents to attrract more buyers.

Is this new? I'm sure that most are in agreement that it is absolutely retarded to start your auctions at .99 cents so why on earth is Ebay now encouraging you to do so?

More foolishness from the brain surgeons at Ebay it would appear.
I run very few auctions, but last time I did, I saw that silly $0.99 cent message and wondered about it too.

Perhaps eBay was running a test to see whether such low starters would actually still sell at auction, and if so, in which categories. Perhaps this fits in with the Spring Seller Update, where auctions are being squeezed into a bit of a corner.

Who ever really knows why they do what they do -- eBay often does things that look idiotic on the surface, but I suspect they always have an agenda "behind the scenes".

Thanks for your reply rose...

I have no doubt that there is always an "agenda" behind things that Ebay does. It just struck mje as so utterly stupid to be encouraging people to start auctions at .99 cents. Those of us who have been doing this a while, and I am by no means a veteran at just approaching 3 years selling here on Ebay (April 11 will actually be my 3 year anniversary with this user ID and selling), know enough not to start our auctions at .99 cents but what about the newbies coming in. They are going to see that and think "ok well Ebay says i should do this to get more people interested and hence more sales" and maybe they list 50 items like that and all of a sudden they've got single bids on the works and they are crying in their beer.

Yes there is an agenda in play and it's sad that it is so obviously anti-seller.

Cheers,

thD

lukey9 · ‎03-22-2015

I have been starting all my Auctions at .99 since I closed the Store out the first of this year and in the majority of the Auctions in most cases end where they would have sold at BIN price. I am clearing out old stock and have no interest in replacing it with new stock the way things are at E-Bay right now. With the new Seller's Update I can only list the few Auctions for free or Free listing periods if we ever get any more.

The down side of just listing the Freebies is you can not get that many Defects or you will be gone any way When I closed my Store out I had very little stock which was great. With the present climate at E-Bay I will not go back to a Store as it is too much work & time for too little profit..

Another snowy day in Nova Scotia,

Cheers