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Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
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Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 5, 2012 01:54 PM
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Just like a couple of the other categories you have noe!
Do we weant it....yes or no
You haven't voted yet in this poll -- use the form below to cast a vote.
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 6, 2012 03:48 AM
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Hi...
Do you really think there is a NEED for free listings in the collectibles catagory? Is there a shortage of good listings and sales in that catagory? I can assure you that the listing promotions are based around eBay's NEEDS and not the wishes of the sellers.
Thanks...
Joe...aka...bokhoma
Picture is of MY GIRL being good for a change!
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 6, 2012 10:19 AM
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How about free listings, across the board, in every category, permanently?
I could go for that, along as the FVF remains the same. Doubt it will happen, though, because store subscriptions would be too adversely affected. Who would pay for a store when there's no listing fee to discount?
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 6, 2012 10:34 AM
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I would keep my store, if listings were free. (Used subjunctive)
My only concern would be that ebay would be flooded with junk.
I think free listings for Top Rathed Sellers for the rest of the year would be best for Ebay and a reward for the TRSs
Dare to dream, and then dare to begin.
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 6, 2012 11:25 AM
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I might keep my store too. It would be worth $15.95/month, not having to go back to doing 1 feedback at a time. With the store, what used to take 5 to 10 minutes, now takes about 2 seconds.
eBay flodded with junk? Yeah, that might happen, might not. I'd be willing to risk it. Or, free listings for TRS sounds good too.
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 10, 2012 05:09 AM
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Fee's to list help control what is listed. Free listings would flood the site with all sorts of non-sellable junk, as everyone would not think twice about listing the item. The fees help a seller determine what to list and whether or not to list it.
Right now, I know not to list auction style, as when I do on free listing days (325 auctions, 180.oo normal listing fees), I only sell about 10-15 with 3-5 being UPI's...................
Free listings all the time, would have my items up on auction 24/7, and I would have lots more than just the 325. By having the Fee to list, this controls (keeps me from) listing items with a very low auction sell thru rate cluttering up the site. I do just fine with my BIN's.
Be carefull what you wish for, as your current BIN search placement could be pushed back to page 4-5-6 or further back, in favor of the fee listed auction items. It funny how that minimum quater (25 cents), to list an auction item, keeps the site in check or in balance. Heck, even the nickel (5 cents for premium store owners) is check point, making sellers think twice before listing.
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 10, 2012 04:15 PM
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OK EBAY....then lets have FREE LISTINGS for the rest of the year only for Top Rated Sellers
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 11, 2012 01:36 AM
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theemblemstore wrote:
Free listings would flood the site with all sorts of non-sellable junk, as everyone would not think twice about listing the item.
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Hi....
I am a big advocate of eBay using the Sell Through Rate to determine if a seller should be permitted to have free listings. A seller should be required to meet a minimum listing volume as well each month. That would keep good sellers whose items actually sold listing regularly. People with above average STR are money makers for eBay. They produce FVF at a high rate and that is where the REAL money is at for eBay...in the FVF.
Personally, I think people with a low STR should not be considered for the Top Rated Seller program. I think eBay is missing the boat and permitted a lot of overpriced, junky trinkets to be listed by not employing the STR as a standard for promotions and rewards.
Thanks...
Joe...aka...bokhoma
Picture is of MY GIRL being good for a change!
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 11, 2012 05:20 PM
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Great idea!! Much needed.
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 29, 2012 06:37 PM
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I'd say yes for TRS. Would help keep the market from being flooded.
No to STR because some of us folks don't want to have or want a store. I have some great items that are not junk; however, I don't have enough items or time to generate business in a store area.
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 29, 2012 06:39 PM
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I'd say yes to TRS because I don't have junk.
I'd say no to STR because I don't have junk to sell; however, I don't have enough items to open a store which would create more fees for me.
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 30, 2012 04:57 AM
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I don't think there should be free listing of any kind...Period!
As theemblemstore said, free listings encourage the listing of unsellable junk, either product that was bought at WalMart or The Dollar Store and offered for double the price, or product, like a serving bowl, circa 2004, offered as "Vintage"...with a chip in it. And they are repeatedly offered for auction week after week after week without selling.
I sell from a store, primarily in Pottery & Glass and Collectibles. Doing research, I see this crap offered continuously. What's the Sell Through Rate? Maybe 5%? 10%? That seems to be the case as I read from sellers on other boards grumble about their low STRs in that range, yet they also complain when they don't get any more than their 50 free listings per month.
I believe in the old "have a little skin in the game" concept. Even a nominal listing fee would make people think twice before listing stuff they couldn't sell at a yard sale for 25 cents.
If you don’t know how to swim, don’t jump into the deep end of the pool.
It seldom turns out well.
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 30, 2012 05:10 AM
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bokhoma wrote:
theemblemstore wrote:
Free listings would flood the site with all sorts of non-sellable junk, as everyone would not think twice about listing the item.
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Hi....
I am a big advocate of eBay using the Sell Through Rate to determine if a seller should be permitted to have free listings. A seller should be required to meet a minimum listing volume as well each month. That would keep good sellers whose items actually sold listing regularly. People with above average STR are money makers for eBay. They produce FVF at a high rate and that is where the REAL money is at for eBay...in the FVF.
Personally, I think people with a low STR should not be considered for the Top Rated Seller program. I think eBay is missing the boat and permitted a lot of overpriced, junky trinkets to be listed by not employing the STR as a standard for promotions and rewards.
Thanks...
Joe...aka...bokhoma
I got to say, meeting a % of STR to be TRS just wouldn't work.
1) Is STR going to be a minimum % -v- total listings. You'd still have junk listed.
2) Would a seller then have to "stop" listing items that only sell 2, 3 or 4 a year? In fear of not meating the STR% and loss of TRS.
3) When I came back to eBay in 2010, I listed 2 items (first and only ever to be listed on eBay, even to this day). That said.....Should I have been penalized (loss of TRS) because it took 6-8 months for these items to finally sell to the right collector/buyer, and didn't meet a STR%?
4) Anyone can sell volumes of items, but does having a high STR make them a better seller, or have a better product? Or, is it just the item(s) are in high demand? Example: Does the volume of "meat sales" make Wal-mart a better store, than the local butcher shop that specializes in meat cutting, but at a lower sales volume?
5) Should a seller such as myself........Have to limit my listings to just the best sellers via some STR %, there by lessoning the choices/selection of items I have availible to my buyers?
As, I posted........I know better than to spend money on auction listing fees, becasue of my testing when eBay does the Free auction listing promo for store subscribers.
But, I don't agree with eBay only offering Free listings to one group, while not offering the same to the other groups. This has caused friction between sellers, and eBay has caused and is to blame for this pitting of sellers against one another.
They had/have it right with listing fee's, as the main control of "to list the item or not". But their not satisfied with this, and feel the need to rile seller groups up in a frensy.
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 30, 2012 06:59 AM
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I posted the following in a different thread, yesterday. It is relevant to here too, so here it is again.
FLDs could be in the works to becoming permanent. Yesterday, I heard Griff alluding to this on eBay Radio. He implied that the big ad in our listings is taking the place of listing fees.
Anyone interested to listening go here~~~> eBay Radio . It is the one titled 'Ask Griff & Lee - Show 272 - Segment 3', currently the 3rd one on the list. Once you start the audio, you'll see that the time on the player counts down. Griff is talking about this from -26.27 thru -24.30.
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Sep 30, 2012 09:25 PM
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I'm not sure eBay would consider using STR to restrict/permit sellers anything, as doing so would effectively kill the OOAK and true collectible sales, as well as put a serious chill on the small seller. And it's the small sellers that, as a group, contribute more to eBay's traffic than any mega-seller ever could.
Consider... would you go to eBay to shop for items that were also listed, probably for less, at a retailer's own site? Why? What's the advantage? What's in it for me as the buyer?
Small sellers, as a collective group, provide the diversity and breadth of product that generate eBay's traffic -- not the mega-seller listing retail products at near-retail prices.
-Bob.
V.46 Trading Assistant/Consignment sales, since 1997!
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Oct 2, 2012 12:45 AM
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rosachs wrote:
"I'm not sure eBay would consider using STR to restrict/permit sellers anything, as doing so would effectively kill the OOAK and true collectible sales, as well as put a serious chill on the small seller. And it's the small sellers that, as a group, contribute more to eBay's traffic than any mega-seller ever could."
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I must disagree with that. The OOAK items have to sell at a very good rate well above the eBay average. I do not know what you consider a "small seller" but if they sell auction style they already get 50 free per month. And the small sellers...those with 50 or fewer listings at any time (see I will define it for you....LOL) are likely to have a good STR (IMO). Using the STR would really hurt the sellers who have 400 plus listing at a time and sell perhaps 10% or less of their items per month.
Thanks...
Joe...aka...bokhoma
Picture is of MY GIRL being good for a change!
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Oct 4, 2012 11:34 AM
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Hi... There is an old term in sales called "mudding the wall." The theory is you put as much product out for sale as possible (a lot of mud on the wall) in hopes that some of it will sell (some mud will stick on the wall.) Obviously people with low STR squawk when the idea of eBay using it for free listing or select seller programs like TRS. People with low STR rates want to "mud the wall" hoping to make some money. Many seem to want eBay to drop listing fees so they can throw even more mud. I know the people in charge at eBay know that in the LONG TERM using the STR as a bench mark would work. It would reward sellers who produce FVF at a high rate and it would encourage those that did not to make some necessary changes. As stated before that is where the real money for eBay is at...the FVF and the PayPal fees from sales. Also, it would clean up the site and eliminate a lot of overpriced junky items that sell at a very low rate (mud). By long term I mean somewhere in the area of six to eighteen months. However, there is a bigger issue in all of this for eBay. The SHORT TERM effect. Naturally there would be a large group of upset sellers with low STR. Some would flee the site just as many did when eBay raised fees a few months back. This would have a short term negative effect on the stock price. Stock analysts would not like seeing sellers leave just as they did not like it when some left over fees. There likely would be a short term drop in listings and listings growth for eBay has been strong even in the bad economy. Some analysts would buy into the program of a cleaner site and a higher STR but IMO not enough. The day MIGHT come for the STR to come into play for eBay sellers and I THINK it will when the economy recovers and is stable once again and eBay is making more money per stock share. However in this economy eBay will not risk such a move. But I think the day will come..... Thanks... Joe...aka..bokhoma
Picture is of MY GIRL being good for a change!
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Re: Hey EBAY how about free listings for Collectibles for the rest of the year
Oct 4, 2012 04:29 PM
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theemblemstore wrote:
"But, I don't agree with eBay only offering Free listings to one group, while not offering the same to the other groups. This has caused friction between sellers, and eBay has caused and is to blame for this pitting of sellers against one another."
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Huh? Say what?
If eBay did use the STR to determine discounted or free listings they would not be GIVING any certain group of seller preference over others. The sellers with above average STR would be EARNING it.
As far as friction between sellers goes eBay Corporation already makes marked distinctions between groups of sellers. Some are limited to a certain number of items per month; others are limited in accessing funds in their PayPal account; some have earned TRS status while others have not....
Sellers with above average STR whose items attract buyers and produce money for eBay and do not list a lot of items that do not sell for whatever reason would have EARNED some special perks.....IMO.
Thanks...
Joe...aka..bokhoma
Picture is of MY GIRL being good for a change!
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