New eBay seller policies - Auction listings now free & Final Fee includes shipping
#26
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Re: New eBay seller policies - Auction listings now free & Final Fee includes shippin
Amazon may cost more, I'm not sure, but I don't care because it really is painless to sell things on that site if you aren't a volume seller. Ebay's infrastructure is a pain in the ass.
#27
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I was a volume seller. And the infrastructure was still a pain in the ass.
I would not recommend that anyone use eBay. Take your DVD's or whatever to a local record store for some credit.
If you're not in a hurry to sell, I'd also recommend Amazon. Your inventory just sits there, at $0 cost, until it sells. If it sells, it sells. They take their cut straight from the sale. There's nothing to "manage".
Mark my words, eBay will be like MySpace in a few years.
I would not recommend that anyone use eBay. Take your DVD's or whatever to a local record store for some credit.
If you're not in a hurry to sell, I'd also recommend Amazon. Your inventory just sits there, at $0 cost, until it sells. If it sells, it sells. They take their cut straight from the sale. There's nothing to "manage".
Mark my words, eBay will be like MySpace in a few years.
#28
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Well ebay just lost my business for good. Between Discogs, Amazon and Ebay I have 100% on all of them with over 600 transactions. Yesterday I see this idiot buyer left me negative feedback (my first ever) because he said "this is not icp" - I have no idea what that means, I listed the Artist, Album title, and tracklist along with Cover art, apparently the guy thought it was an Insane Clown Posse CD. He received it 3 days after he won it. I e-mailed ebay and told them and they replied "You should be satisfied your feedback rating is still 98%, we can not change the feedback"
And to leave negative comments on the buyers page I had to leave positive feedback... all over a $5 CD, the buyer didn't even bother contacting me, fuck ebay and fuck stupid juvenile buyers.
I've been buying a ton of my stuff from ebay as of late and use paypal as the main checkout option for my business - but this buyer who has a feedback record of 12 rules all.
No thanks.
And to leave negative comments on the buyers page I had to leave positive feedback... all over a $5 CD, the buyer didn't even bother contacting me, fuck ebay and fuck stupid juvenile buyers.
I've been buying a ton of my stuff from ebay as of late and use paypal as the main checkout option for my business - but this buyer who has a feedback record of 12 rules all.
No thanks.
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#31
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http://cgi.ebay.com/Hex-Gates-Hell-C...-/150578307823 [shows up on a google search]
Unless they've changed their policy, eBay frowns on "keyword spamming."
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#33
DVD Talk Hero
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Ebay is too large to care. They've turned into a bunch of soggy desk jockeys.
I recommend that nobody buys nor sells on eBay anymore.
#34
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#35
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Let's not forget those listing fees for NON SOLD items on ebay if you do list more than 50 items per month.
#36
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Those penny a bid auction sites seem to be popping up everywhere. Setting one of those up would be pretty cool for selling dvd's. Cost's just a 1$ to bid, and if you get 5-10 bids and the item actually sells for $.05-$.10 you would actually be making more $ than trying to sell them on ebay or amazon.
The problem would be just getting traffic to the site.
The problem would be just getting traffic to the site.
#37
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iOffer's business model is what eBay's used to be. The admin is more or less 'hands off' with the transactions, and they keep their fees low (if there are any fees right now). eBay gets in trouble because they now mediate everything. And their desk jockeys really don't understand how used/surplus/overstock business (nor business in general) works. They don't understand their own rules. A lot of decisions they make are on a whim, with zero regards to the seller (who pays them all of that money).
The anonymity vs business crippling severity of the feedback system is just fustrating.
eBay tried to fix something that wasn't broken. They bought PayPal. They keep buying into other companies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...itions_by_eBay) They just bought GSI Commerce (a fufillment company). It appears that they're going to add the ability for companies like Toys R Us to sell on eBay, which is really to rival Amazon with more "retail type" sales. But they don't seem to have the management nor expertise to take care of any of this stuff.
Then, they obnoxiously up their fees this spring ... again. One must ask, "who do they think they are"?
#38
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Re: New eBay seller policies - Auction listings now free & Final Fee includes shippin
iOffer would be great, but they offer bootleg DVDs. Just look at The Wonder Years.
Not sure I'd want to buy or sell anything on a site that has bee knowingly selling bootlegs for years.
Not sure I'd want to buy or sell anything on a site that has bee knowingly selling bootlegs for years.
#39
DVD Talk Hero
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Is that a joke? There's a gagillion bootleg DVD's on eBay. I actually don't quite understand why it's allowed.
#40
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I've purchased off Ioffer a bunch of times over the years when I needed some mods on equipment and dvd boots. The problem with the site is that it is really a mixed bag of quality of product and sellers.
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#42
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Hehe. But the USPS still doesn't get much of my money. It's kind of like my "salt budget". They could triple the cost of table salt, and I won't mind.
When I was selling on there, eBay was making more money than me (there's three of us here). eBay was my single largest bill every month. And that doesn't even take into account all of my "PayPal" fees. eBay's fees were out of control and obnoxious before they decided to raise them again.
When I was selling on there, eBay was making more money than me (there's three of us here). eBay was my single largest bill every month. And that doesn't even take into account all of my "PayPal" fees. eBay's fees were out of control and obnoxious before they decided to raise them again.
#43
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Media Mail is still the cheapest thing by far to ship via any carrier. As long as the post office offers that, then they are okay with me.
#44
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No, iOffer fully offers bootlegs of Movies and such multiple times. eBay pulls auctions that knowingly offers Bootlegs. Of course, eBay can't tell if someone is selling a bootleg copy of Aladdin on DVD without pictures, but The Wonder Years Complete Series? That's a bootleg.
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#46
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No, iOffer fully offers bootlegs of Movies and such multiple times. eBay pulls auctions that knowingly offers Bootlegs. Of course, eBay can't tell if someone is selling a bootleg copy of Aladdin on DVD without pictures, but The Wonder Years Complete Series? That's a bootleg.
#47
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http://www.ioffer.com/search/items/wonder%20years
And that's why all the box art looks different? And the disc count...and the "quality scale"?
And that's why all the box art looks different? And the disc count...and the "quality scale"?
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So ebay says that people below their minimum selling standards will have their paypal payments pending until the item arrives with the buyer.. They told me that I am below their minimum standards. I currently have 48 positives, 0 negatives, and a 5 star rating. Fuck them then, no more selling through them if they think that my track record is worthy of treating me like a scammer.
#49
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Yep'. They pushed. But now they overstepped. People aren't going to like using them anymore. If they stay afloat, it'll be because of their other companies and investments (PayPal, Skype, distribution companies, etc.).
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