topic ebay zzzzz - boring in Selling

ebay zzzzz - boring

robart05 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 00:57:47 GMT

In regards to the decline of ebay for sellers of a certain size

I am one of them

I have just sent a message to Quicksales asking them to lift their game so they can attract more of us and hence more buyers.

They have many good points they can sell themselves on v ebay

They pay tax

They are cheap

They are Australian

I would like to suggest any disgruntled sellers do the same - let them know there are enough of us out there to make it worth their while to promote themselves more, and make a genuine effort v ebay

ebay don't want us, so we don't have alot of choice

Discuss

Robert

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2011.narelle — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 01:27:53 GMT

They didn't even send me the confirmation email when i tried to join up so i doubt they are going to read any suggestion i make about their site.

My 1st suggestion to them would be to allow people to join their little ghost town.More sad than eBay

They can't be too smart or interested if they aren't taking advantage of eBay's situation.If they had catchy ads or any ads at all to attract business they would be booming.I have no respect for their lack of business sense.

No market presence = no sales.

insert cricket noise here.

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horizon1907 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 01:42:46 GMT

Interesting point Narelle. I thought the same thing the other day. Why aren't the other sites taking advantage of the angst Re ebay & advertising to the "max". Surely their advertising teams would suggest that they try and infiltrate ebays lasoo ? Even if it was 1% ? I think, still signifigant enough ??

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artyandchic — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:00:01 GMT

absolutely agree with you robart. I am making an effort to see if QS will work for me and I think the more of us who make an effort the more we will make it happen.

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2011.narelle — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:02:21 GMT

I honestly don't understand why no other sales site has taken full advantage of the masses of unhappy sellers wanting to jump off the S.S eBay Titanic.With a little innovation & marketing they would have a big opportunity to have a take the lead in online sales.They wouldn't get PayPal fee incentive but they would get $ from sale fees.Maybe they don't think it's enough to invest in.Dunno.

As it is,we have no other viable option.U.S sellers have the River,etsy etc,all we have is the jumbled mess that is Gumtree & SlowSales.

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putney32 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:12:43 GMT

I agree narelle, for YEARS now, every time eBay puts in rules that sellers dont like, so may say they are going over to QS (or even before that to Oziton) but what happens?? sure many sellers do go over but that site has NO INTERESTwhatsoever to attract buyers .. so a bunch of disgruntld eBay selllers just end up being a bunch of disgruntled QS sellers.... and sell a few things between each other but Buyers... real Buyers... have never heard of the place!!!!!!

so so many oortunities lost over at least 5 years now!

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ausbargainbasement — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:17:12 GMT

Yep you will barely get a sale on Slowsales, been there and done that, they make there money out of Carssales.com.au and couldnt give a bugger about Slowsales, even to sell there or anywhere else you are still stuck with Paypal, even if its not mandatary you still need to offer Paypal as it is for buyers the most trusted.

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robart05 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:17:12 GMT

Yes hello again

I suggested to Quicksales that a critical mass of ebay sellers was building, and I'm sure it is

Theres no questioning ebay is going in one direction and we are going in another.

No one should hold onto ebay through sentiment or laziness, we are in business - arent we?

Maybe we should start opening shops on Quicksales while keeping ebay as well until the point where we have to jump

At least if the numbers on QS start to build, we could as members, start to put pressure on QS from within to lift their game a bit

Couldn't hurt to try?

Cmon people this stuff is great - Us little but united shops V International Tax dodging all powerful conglomerate

Yay us!

Your'e welcome

Robert

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jpamboris — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:31:05 GMT

Hi,

I was booted off ebay last month because of cancelled transactions. i have since started listing on QS. i have had zero sales.

Regards

john

Re: ebay zzzzz - boring

harley_babes_hoard — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 02:46:28 GMT

If you think eBay is boring then you'll be extra extra bored waiting for sales on slowsales

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robart05 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 03:07:55 GMT

I know QS is slow as

The question is what will make it work

Thats basically up to QS themselves, but we can push and provoke them into action - can't we?

As well, if you wait long enough and you are a certain size seller, ebay will become just as slow for you

Should you just wait and hope or be proactive

Cmon people - fire it up !!

Robert

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dotm2004 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 03:25:48 GMT

Tell me I'm slow .... but I don't know what QS is ... could someone explain ?

My complaint is that I was built up by eBay with 100-150 free insertions .... now they've completely stopped. Things were going well before that

Does is make sense to eBay? (it does to me) .... the more items I list, the more final value fees they receive. I can't afford to pay fees both ends, as I try to keep my prices down. If I put my prices up, my sales drop 😞

I don't think eBay has many happy little sellers at present

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robart05 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 03:36:32 GMT

QS is quicksales, an Australian version of ebay, but with no get up and go!

Your story will become more and more familiar over the next couple of years, that's why we need a viable alternative

At the moment there are none, just hoping someone will see the oppotunity being created by ebays policies and strategys

thank you you're welcome

Robert

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dotm2004 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 03:47:14 GMT

Thank you for such a quick response 🙂

I will wait in hope !!

Are there others who have been taking advantage of the free insertion promotions ... now found they're completely dried up?

I actually rang eBay and asked and they told me the usual story ... AND THEY DON'T WANT US TO GET USED TO THEM ! Why?

I think I'll go and have a drink (cup of tea that is) 🙂

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peri-landlubber — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:48:31 GMT

I got emails from QS on my new IDs & when I sent them an email (with my old ID) thru their webpage they took a couple of days to answer it.

My complaint was I couldn't answer or write a question on their forums - the page told me I didn't have permission to do so.

Funny that, I was able to do so last October, but maybe because I changed my provider from bigpond to iinet last March.

Starting to think it's my provider they don't like, as I tried Chrome, Firefox, IE & Opera - but no go. I can get into the selling/buying part OK.

Their Tech's are looking into it.

I dont understand why they couldn't put a flyer across their carsales adverts on the TV.

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2011.narelle — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 05:24:56 GMT

If they can't get simple issues on user access right then I'm not interested or hopeful at all.

I've only looked at QS once & is a bit weird 'cos i couldn't look through a category.I had to type in an item & that doesn't cater for my impulse shopping whims.

No-one knows that they are around & they don't seem to care.

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casbit33 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 05:28:29 GMT

I sent quicksales a message about 2 weeks ago, saying there are a lot of unhappy sellers at ebay looking for somewhere else to go.

Now might be a really good time to advertise and attract those sellers as well as buyers.

They replied saying thankyou, and they would look into it.

Here's hoping.

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mydiyau — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 05:43:35 GMT

oztion was terrible at marketing, they picked the wrong name, I still don't know the correct way to pronounce oztion for God sake.

Haven't tried Quicksales yet, bet ebay owns some of it, you never know!

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lizzy6107 — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 06:11:09 GMT

I had a look at shopify... you can do a free offline trial, and to be honest, I thought it looked great..

unfortunately, I don't have the time or energy yet to give it a proper go, my trial expired, it took me the trial to upload just one thing! and not sure about their search coverage capabilities, or advertising but it looked clean attractive and cheap! ( at this stage anyway)

and you can carry over ebay items and feedback, so I think when they take off, and I am sure they will. they will be very good.

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mydiyau — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 06:43:04 GMT

@lizzy6107 wrote:
I had a look at shopify... you can do a free offline trial, and to be honest, I thought it looked great..
unfortunately, I don't have the time or energy yet to give it a proper go, my trial expired, it took me the trial to upload just one thing! and not sure about their search coverage capabilities, or advertising but it looked clean attractive and cheap! ( at this stage anyway)
and you can carry over ebay items and feedback, so I think when they take off, and I am sure they will. they will be very good.

I tried jugemcart, a japanese cart, it was $9 a month with no restrictions, now they want 10% on every transaction... so back to square one... my friend uses wordpress with success.