It's a weird thing. Because in a lot of ways the only reason to use eBay IS that it is a bit of a monopoly. I mean, as someone who buys things on eBay, if I didn't visit other auction sites it would only be because I thought, "there aren't as many people selling things there, so the odds are lower that I'll find things I want when I spend time looking there." And someone who's considering selling something there will have similar questions about the amount of customer traffic. It's funny. I'm always for more competition, less monopoly. But up until now it has been sort of good for everyone that there is this one really popular auction site, because it gives sellers access to the maximum number of customers and vice versa. But apparently that time is over--too bad eBay had to get greedy.
chris
· 4 years ago
I think there's a real opportunity for competition especially if eBay continues to alienate the sellers. If sellers even start cross-posting auctions to another service buyers will start moving. If I had the money and initiative I would start such a project.
My approach would be to commit to sellers to only take a certain amount of fees and commit to let's say 2 years of not raising fees. That will bring people over. Also, I would court the sellers who sell in-game merchandise and especially high-volume sellers. That will get the auctions. You could offer reduced fees for sellers who are the most successful and make that the cornerstone to your approach.
Darrell
· 4 years ago
Of all of the alternative sites I've visited Bidvill.com seems to be the best. Wish there was a way to coordinate everyone moving to one alternative site. This would insure a stong enough competitor to EBAY. Competition is great for a consumer. EBAY is currently a monopoly
Darrell
· 4 years ago
Of all of the alternative sites I've visited Bidville.com seems to be the best. Wish there was a way to coordinate everyone moving to one alternative site. This would insure a stong enough competitor to EBAY. Competition is great for a consumer. EBAY is currently a monopoly
If we go to Wagglepop, how will people pay for their items?.... with PayPal. Ebay still gets a cut.
I'm starting to think eBay is secretly owned by Bill Gates.
Kristina
· 4 years ago
I agree with you and would love to do business elsewhere. The complaints with ebay have even been on our local news several times in the past week. Who else is there offering a good, reliable auction service? Thanks.
Kay
· 4 years ago
Don't Wagglepop and Bidville both use Paypal, which gives ebay a cut? Is there an auction site with more reasonable pricing for buyers and sellers, that also lets buyers use a credit card without going through Paypal?
Liz
· 3 years ago
It is time for an eBay revolt -- and a Wagglepop revolution.
This is one Powerseller/Store Owner who's leaving FeePay forever -- as a buyer as well as a seller. I've opened a store at Wagglepop and will start populating it in earnest as soon as I have the store configured to my liking.
Wagglepop offers some exciting new features in their stores: Red Carpet -- discounts to loyal customers; InStore promotions, BuyMoreNow -- discounts for multi-item purchases, and OnTarget cross promotions. It's missing some features that I've become quite attached to though: sub-categories and the ability to list store items in two categories.
The irony of leaving eBay but continuing to use Paypal is not lost on us -- sellers or on the Wagglepop crew alike. But, honestly, it's a different fee for a different service and the Paypal fees haven't been continually raised.
Kevin
· 1 year ago
The way to do it is to start a sea change via the "dandelion" method: make up a template email and send it to as many ebay sellers as you can, or want. When (notice I didn't say IF, but WHEN) enough of us contact enough other sellers, and it only takes each of us to contact two other sellers, the seeds of change will start increasing logarithmically.
Allen
· 1 year ago
Dump PayPal! I have just started using GearPay.com . Last year eBay in their infinite wisdom banned the sale of gun parts, I sell antique gun parts they cut my business on ebay by 2/3rd! I moved on to GunBroker.com (thanks eBay). Now with the new fees and feedback system sellers are no longer part of their community but second class Citizens. I have gone on to Olineauction.com (thanks eBay) I will check out Waggelpop,
PayPal now has the option to hold your money for 21 days to insure your customer is happy with the transaction! PayPal like ebay is anti-gun and has frozen the accounts of dealers who use it, I'm not talking 50.00 or 100.00 here, they have frozen accounts of legal dealers who had thousands of dollars in their accounts, and it takes over 6 months before they might release the funds! Even if you don't like guns PayPal is making money off other's hard work with very bad business practices.
Bart Brown
· 1 year ago
Just an observation:
Between 09/14/07 and 12/28/07, these officers of Ebay, Inc.:
Meg Whitman, CEO William Cobb, Officer Michael Jacobson, General Counsel Rajiv Dutta, Officer Scott Cook, Director
Sold $106,727,738.00* worth of stock in the company, Meg Whitman coming in with the highest individual total, selling off 2.56 million shares worth a total of $88.3 million dollars. I think it goes without saying that during this same period, none of these officers BOUGHT any Ebay shares.
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My approach would be to commit to sellers to only take a certain amount of fees and commit to let's say 2 years of not raising fees. That will bring people over. Also, I would court the sellers who sell in-game merchandise and especially high-volume sellers. That will get the auctions. You could offer reduced fees for sellers who are the most successful and make that the cornerstone to your approach.
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I'm starting to think eBay is secretly owned by Bill Gates.
This is one Powerseller/Store Owner who's leaving FeePay forever -- as a buyer as well as a seller. I've opened a store at Wagglepop and will start populating it in earnest as soon as I have the store configured to my liking.
Wagglepop offers some exciting new features in their stores: Red Carpet -- discounts to loyal customers; InStore promotions, BuyMoreNow -- discounts for multi-item purchases, and OnTarget cross promotions. It's missing some features that I've become quite attached to though: sub-categories and the ability to list store items in two categories.
The irony of leaving eBay but continuing to use Paypal is not lost on us -- sellers or on the Wagglepop crew alike. But, honestly, it's a different fee for a different service and the Paypal fees haven't been continually raised.
PayPal now has the option to hold your money for 21 days to insure your customer is happy with the transaction! PayPal like ebay is anti-gun and has frozen the accounts of dealers who use it, I'm not talking 50.00 or 100.00 here, they have frozen accounts of legal dealers who had thousands of dollars in their accounts, and it takes over 6 months before they might release the funds! Even if you don't like guns
PayPal is making money off other's hard work with very bad business practices.
Between 09/14/07 and 12/28/07, these officers of Ebay, Inc.:
Meg Whitman, CEO
William Cobb, Officer
Michael Jacobson, General Counsel
Rajiv Dutta, Officer
Scott Cook, Director
Sold $106,727,738.00* worth of stock in the company, Meg Whitman coming in with the highest individual total, selling off 2.56 million shares worth a total of $88.3 million dollars. I think it goes without saying that during this same period, none of these officers BOUGHT any Ebay shares.
Bart Brown
*Source: MSN Money, "Insider Trading"