fksports
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posted on August 21, 2006 09:27:04 PM new
Sorry if this has been posted..I just read this on eBay. Due to many concerns from sellers, ebay decided to have their billing dept post the credits at the end of Aug rather than the original end of September date that was originally announced.
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sparkz
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posted on August 21, 2006 09:36:29 PM new
"Due to many concerns from sellers"
In other words, there were a lot of sellers that didn't trust Ebay to live up to their end of the deal.
If Murphy's law is correct, everything East of the San Andreas Fault will slide into the Atlantic
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ST0NEC0LD613
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posted on August 22, 2006 10:16:14 AM new
Could that be why that promotion ended up being a flop?
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paloma91
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posted on August 22, 2006 11:19:41 AM new
Please excuse this probably stupid question: How do we know it was a flop? Just because a bunch of us here didn't participate doesn't mean it was a flop.
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mikes4x4andtruckrepair
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posted on August 22, 2006 12:15:28 PM new
Please excuse this probably stupid question: How do we know it was a flop? Just because a bunch of us here didn't participate doesn't mean it was a flop.
Well let's see. A two day promotion instead of a 1 day promotion and it had the least amount of listing's for any promotion in a long time. I think that qualify's as a flop.
 1 out of 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Take a look at your 3 closest friends. If they seem alright, you're the one! - Kyle Stubbins, CMS
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ST0NEC0LD613
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posted on August 22, 2006 01:02:57 PM new
Like I said, flop.
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mikes4x4andtruckrepair
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posted on August 22, 2006 02:50:58 PM new
Yeah, flop as in about 4 million less listing's when compared to the promotion in May and people even had 2 day's for this one. Interesting to note that every time they have a promotion in recent month's they have less and less people listing during the promotion. It's a steady decline.
1 out of 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Take a look at your 3 closest friends. If they seem alright, you're the one! - Kyle Stubbins, CMS
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amber
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posted on August 22, 2006 03:40:26 PM new
When you think about it, only sellers who had stores could participate. I don't know what percentage of total buyers have stores.
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mikes4x4andtruckrepair
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posted on August 22, 2006 03:56:46 PM new
That's true, I didn't consider that. However, if you consider the quantity of low dollar items that are in stores and with the fee increase the amount of these items that are being removed due to not being to make a profit any longer you would have thought that the number of listing's would have gone up alot more. Then again there could be alot of people like me that said screw ebay and will find other venues to sell their items on.
I just checked and there are 8,564 pages of stores at 25 stores per page. That makes 214,000 stores on ebay. That's one heaping helping of stores with a huge amount of inventory.
1 out of 4 people are mentally unbalanced. Take a look at your 3 closest friends. If they seem alright, you're the one! - Kyle Stubbins, CMS
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bjboswell
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posted on August 22, 2006 04:17:02 PM new
Well when all is said and done I sure would like to know how many store owners closed up dur to this rate increase. I closed mine and am having a yard sale this weekend. I want all that stuff gone. When I look at it clearly and fairly it was for the most part.. 50% low end "stuff". Paying to keep it somewhere was not cost effective. I'm not happy to not have a store but I am happy that I forced me to look at my business without rose colored glasses.
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pixiamom
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posted on August 23, 2006 08:15:34 AM new
I participated in the promo and it has been the worst one ever for me. My international sales are really down. Might be that buyers over there are joining the boycott.
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