Comments on: Bye bye eBay, eBay bye bye

By: Theresa

Theresa — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:41:08 +0000

I am one of the steadfast eBay boycotters. I am fortunate that I do not earn my living from online sales. I have always enjoyed buying and used to spend my pin money on eBay, not a ‘powerbuyer’ but easily $200 – $300 a month. My selling was to sell duplicates and no longer wanted items from my collections and to support my buying habit. Fairly typical I dare say. My close to 2000 feedback is about evenly split as buyer and seller.
If I see something I want on eBay I will write the seller and tell them list it elsewhere and send me a link if you want the sale. No skin off my nose if they decline. I will NOT spend my money in a place that thinks I am noise and provides little or no customer service.

By: Henrietta

Henrietta — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:29:07 +0000

You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
If you want to pay eBay scale fees and put up with the garbage, then you can have the site advertise for you. If you do not want the site taking 23%+ of your gross price then it is time to get off your duff and either build and promote your own site, or go someplace like Bonanzle where they make it easy for you to do your own promotional and marketing feed.
Personally, I am doing both.
My books show my gross sales were lower in 2008 than 2007, however the bottom line is up. Put simply I am not working as hard and making more money.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:06:21 +0000

My plan… I already left … i have hopes that one of the alternative auction sites will advertise their rumps off to get customers there, because sellers will be ready and waiting for the customers to begin bidding. In the meantime, I am selling fixed price on bonanzle, a really friendly and fun site. i am intrigued by a few other sites too, like etsy, and excited about auctiva opening storefronts for sellers in January. Sadly I didn’t make nearly what I would have on ebay. The skies the limit for some sight, they just gotta reach up there and advertise to attract buyers.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:14:01 +0000

I will start selling stamps in 2009. My choice is Delcampe.

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:07:14 +0000

I have been selling CDs at an eBay shop in Germany for a couple of years. all went fine until in 2007 sales declined rapidly. it was not because there might have been too many competitors, my cds having been unique items mostly. it was the hits that declined. nearly nobody visited my shop sites. a year ago i moved all my items to amazon.de, and my sales are doing very well now. i will not go back to eBay.

By: Bobbi85710

Bobbi85710 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:38:16 +0000

Bonanzle is where I hang now. Fun and supportive venue. Variety galore. Various payment options. Owner supported, seller operated, buyer happy. Nothing better!!!!

eBay couldn’t PAY me to even shop there. Closed up my buying and selling account and Paypal earlier this year. I saw the handwriting on the wall.

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:00:54 +0000

Ed, I’ve already left. Stopped selling on eBayAU a month ago to concentrate on my own site which I set up a year and a half ago. No more idiotic eBay policies, no more feeling like buyers expect top quality service at bargain basement prices and no more Feedback to have to worry about. It’s all good, and to any seller reading this who doesn’t have alternative selling channels to eBay, set them up. Quick.