EBid sellers offer

[528Sport]

Have a lifetime sellers offer on today £49 instead of £75

Might be worth a look seeing as Ebay are taking the water with fee's at the moment

[maser_spyder]

Hardly an 'offer', it's been that price for ages. Back as far as last year I think.

My total sales last year on ebid came to £99.

Not great on a 7 figure + t/o.

By all means get your kit on there, but don't hold your breath.

[528Sport]

Ah I only discovered the site after reading a thread on here a few days ago.

Never mind

Edited by 528Sport on Friday 26th March 20:19

[Chris_w666]

maser_spyder said:

Hardly an 'offer', it's been that price for ages. Back as far as last year I think.

My total sales last year on ebid came to £99.

Not great on a 7 figure + t/o.

By all means get your kit on there, but don't hold your breath.

Well that answered my question about is it worth the effort, I have no where near that turnover but have recently found amazon a lot better at generating sales and much less hassle than ebay. I also find their fee structure much easier to manage the sums with, ebay has one hell of a monopoly on being a marketplace and auction.

[Simpo Two]

I feel sorry for eBid. They seem to be doing everything right but there's so little take-up it can't be viable. Who will slay the eBay monster and how?

[Chris_w666]

I think ebay are so big that any promising competitor would simply be bought up and included or squashed.

[Simpo Two]

Presumaby they've got round European Monopolies legislation because there are alternatives to use (even if they're no good)

[bogwoppit]

I'm surprised Google aren't doing more to make their shopping portal a more integrated solution. they expanded their existing Google Base product listings they would be a serious competitor. Right now they're missing a few features like categorisation, pricing granularity, and seller provenance. Add the ability to just upload product details to Google without a separate website (i.e. the Google interface it itself an ebay-like shop) and it might just snowball. Obviously they already have Google Checkout for payments.