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@pjcdn2005 wrote:eBay has been having many promotions.... This is the first where there is a choiceNot everyone has a choice. I didn't receive the .99 auction promo but I'm not complaining as I wouldn't use it.
It's not the first time there has been more than one promo running at the same time.
There is actually a third one, the eBay Motors, the ongoing free vehicle listing promo.
I agree - I think auctions just don't cut it anymore.
Auctions work just fine if you do it properly!
99 cent Auction work fine too if you have either in demand stuff that gets bid up to a nice price or junk that you are happy to move at any price.
You can even make money at 99 cents if you have a good shipping arrangement and can charge "market rates" that include a nice handling fee.
Personally I do not get the same results with Fixed Price that I get with Auctions which is why I rarely bother with Fixed Price listings.
One thing is absolutely true (for me), my Auctions get many more page views in a week than my FP listings listings get in a month.
@cumos55 wrote:Starting an auction at 99 cents is ... suicide..
Not for me, but then I have not listed an auction since March 2006... seven years
I tried some auctions, in a weeks space, three years ago. First time in about four years. It was a disaster. In my genrè, auctions go low, and BIN go high. I regularly see high dollar, $50-$100 go for under $10 in auctions. Auto parts is just different.
What good does a promo do for most of us? My max is 540 and i do not feel like calling and asking for more. Why are they sending me a promo when they know I can't use it? Makes no sense.
@toby**bleep**zu wrote:Over $20 billion in auction format sales last year. Even with ebay making auction + BIN near useless, and in some categories a very large fee advantage for FP while never an auction FVF advantage like there used to be, sales by auction aren't falling at all Pretty certain more was sold with auction in 2013 then 12, but not going to look it up to be sure
You're wrong! Auctions are dead!
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/141206706726
I really should have listed this at fixed price........
SB is ok, it's similar to BT of course but a bit different. It will require changing the way I do things but I expect in a few months I'll forget how I did it in BT.
There are of course a few things I really don't like, same could be said of BT except it's different things this time.
I spent a few weeks running them in parallel, then made the switch completely at the end of February. I'm just now processing the first items sold.
The import from BT was pretty smooth, a few presets need to be tweaked slightly but nothing major.
I expect I'll cancel my BT subscription in the next few days.....pretty confident I'm not going back there.
One thing that irritates me is that there are a small number of features that come with the Enterprise version that I would like to have but the bulk of the extra stuff with that version (allocation plans and automation) are of no interest to me.
