eBay
Why the eBay Scream?
I wrote the blog post below about a week and half ago. I finally felt like posting it after responding to a blog post over at Senseless Sellers.
Here’s my response to that post on Senseless Seller’s blog.
Can you believe there are “successful” eBay sellers with attitudes like this one? What a complete disgrace to the reputation of what a seller, whether on eBay or anywhere else, should be! Could you imagine walking into Walmart or any other “successful” retailer and having them treat you this way. “Get your facts straight or get out”. What a joke!
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Turning a Negative Into A Positive
In a recent AuctionBytes survey question asking whether the new eBay feedback changes will have a positive or negative impact on their business, 98.7 percent of the 1,640 eBay sellers taking the survey responded “negative”.
98.7%… Are you kidding me? 98.7%…
I didn’t take this survey but I will be happy to count myself amongst the whopping 1.3% of survey respondents welcoming the new eBay feedback changes.
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eBay “Touchy-Feely” Days Are Over
“The elimination of true mutual feedback completely changes the culture of eBay for the worse.”
This is a quote taken from an experienced eBay seller’s newsletter in response to eBay feedback changes announced recently.
This eBay seller, author and entrepreneur is far more experienced with eBay and it’s history than I am and his opinion is one that I value. Is he right? My opinion would take far to long to fully explain so I’ll just say, “Yes and No.” What I do know is that gone are the days an eBay seller can leverage “whether or not” to issue positive eBay feedback based upon how their eBay customer, who has already paid, “treats” them.
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eBays New Best Match Search Tool
Hmmmm, this is interesting. Just finished reading a couple of excellent posts over at Auction Insights explaining eBay’s new “Best Match” search option currently being tested in a few select eBay categories.
I highly recommend reading these articles, as if the new “search by relevance” criteria is adopted as the default search method across all categories on eBay, it constitutes a major change significantly effecting both the buying and selling experience on eBay.
If I was a betting man, I’d bet we best get ready for “Best Match”, cause it’s here to stay.
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Package With Care
It’s a good thing all my packages are A.V.T. You never know when Ace will be delivering your packages.
Hi,
I received the Coffee press today, and it was a good thing that you did such a good job of packaging it because 1/4 of the shipping carton had been crushed during transit! I’m sure that if you hadn’t used a sufficient quantity of cushioning material then the glass carafe would have been broken for sure! Thanks very much for your excellent packaging job!!!
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Taking Notes on ebay Products
Since I lost half my eBay business I’ve been looking for new products to sell on eBay.
Here in South Bend Indiana two huge Pep Boy auto parts and service stores went out of business. I was hoping to purchase some of their inventory at the kind of liquidation pricing I received from Radio Shack back in the summer of 2006. However Pep Boys sold their entire inventory right after the New Year, probably to some huge liquidation house. Pep Boys had hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars worth of merchandise in just their two stores here in South Bend.
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Interesting eBay Auctions - Graffiti Wall
Graffiti artists take note. A graffiti artist in the United Kingdom listed and sold a wall painted with graffiti for 208,100 pounds (275,750 euros, 407,000 dollars) this past Monday.
I’m guessing the adjective “famous” needs to be inserted before “Graffiti Artist” in order to attract these kind of eBay bidders so don’t rush down into the basement for that half full can of lavender paint.
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