Amazon passes eBay in Traffic



Ebay's been shooting themselves in the foot the last few years.
 
amazon is much more informitive

personally ill do my research on amazon then buy things at a chaeper site
 
amazon is more secure and reliable than ebay. Not to mention amazon has really good prices on everything its worth the extra bucks to just go straight to amazon than trying to buy something from a 18 year old kid who will either scam you or ship it out 2 weeks later.

Ebay is still good but only for bargain shoppers and collectors.
 
erifdekciw said:
amazon is more secure and reliable than ebay. Not to mention amazon has really good prices on everything its worth the extra bucks to just go straight to amazon than trying to buy something from a 18 year old kid who will either scam you or ship it out 2 weeks later.

Ebay is still good but only for bargain shoppers and collectors.
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ilold :banana_sml::banana_sml::banana_sml::banana_sml:
 
Worse than affiliates is how they treat their sellers.

They've gone from charging around 6% to over 10% in most niches, plus PayPal fees.

I'm not a seller, but fuck ebay for how they make it virtually impossible for them to turn a profit.
 
hannahmcintyre said:
Worse than affiliates is how they treat their sellers.

They've gone from charging around 6% to over 10% in most niches, plus PayPal fees.

I'm not a seller, but fuck ebay for how they make it virtually impossible for them to turn a profit.
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Add in all the fees (listing, final value, paypal fee), it is almost 25%.
 
You can't imagine a company where the management knows less about the industry that it operates in than eBay. There's pretty much an unwritten policy whereby anyone without a consultancy background and an MBA cannot progress beyond a certain level.

Consequence is that even at relatively low levels of the company there's a dearth of any online or retail experience and an over enthusiasm for 'strategy'.
 
I wouldn't surprise with the stats.

Epn = 1st mistake

Qcp = 2nd mistake & the fall of ebay
 
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They want sellers to start forwarding their own traffic for store credits. I am not sure when this starts though. So they are going to give me a 75% credit on my fee's as long as I drive the traffic myself? How about I drive the traffic to my website, and pay 0 fee....

If anyone cares: Store referral credit





  • You promote your eBay Store or your Store Inventory items from locations outside of eBay, such as other Web sites, emails to buyers, print advertisements, and so forth.
  • A buyer sees your promotion and goes directly to your eBay Store or one of your Store Inventory items.
  • The buyer purchases one of your Store Inventory items.
  • On your monthly invoice, you are charged the regular Final Value Fee, but you also receive a Store Referral Credit. Like the Final Value Fee, the Store Referral Credit is based on the final value of the item. The Store Referral Credit is equal to 75% of the standard Final Value Fee.
 
Jathan said:
They want sellers to start forwarding their own traffic for store credits. I am not sure when this starts though. So they are going to give me a 75% credit on my fee's as long as I drive the traffic myself? How about I drive the traffic to my website, and pay 0 fee....

If anyone cares: Store referral credit





  • You promote your eBay Store or your Store Inventory items from locations outside of eBay, such as other Web sites, emails to buyers, print advertisements, and so forth.
  • A buyer sees your promotion and goes directly to your eBay Store or one of your Store Inventory items.
  • The buyer purchases one of your Store Inventory items.
  • On your monthly invoice, you are charged the regular Final Value Fee, but you also receive a Store Referral Credit. Like the Final Value Fee, the Store Referral Credit is based on the final value of the item. The Store Referral Credit is equal to 75% of the standard Final Value Fee.
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See my comment above about mangers not understanding the industry they operate in.
 
I know a lot of people who became ebay zealots back in the late nineties when they got started. They purchased everything off ebay, many retailers I knew started closing up shop and placing it all online. Now, not one of them even bothers. They all tell me the fraud is so rampant on ebay it's not worth the trouble.
Most people I know that ever sell anything (garage sale stuff, not ecommerce biz) online now just post a freebie on Craigslist.

ebay needs to die a slow painful death.
 
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