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ebay now has copied ioffer's concept.........proof of how other sites do indeed affect ebay........
now what ebay is concerned with and which HELPS ebay to keep fees down on sellers is seeing all this energy for wagglepop... wagglepop may not work.... BUT this energy is what will worry ebay and affect their gouging the sellers even further.... people who say this has ZERO affect must own ebay stock.... no other way to rationalize saying ZERO affect!!!
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DRM....IMO...any business that doesn't keep one eye on their competitors, no matter how small they are, is managed by a fool.
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What concept has eBay copied?
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Originally Posted by Toy Ranch
What concept has eBay copied?
I think they are talking about the "make offer or Best offer" eBay just launced
http://pages.ebay.com/bestoffer/buyer/
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Well, I figured that is probably it, but with DRM, I have to be careful when making any assumptions
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As much as it pains me to bump this thread, I have to clarify something.
This root of this discussion was prompted by deepriverman stating:
...so its not a waste of time to try to build other sites...... eBay just KNOWING this helps limit their fee increases..... it don't take a rocket scientist to understand this!!!
No one stated that eBay does not keep an eye on other entities in the OAI. It was simply pointed out that it is highly unlikely that the combined sales of any or all of the competitors in this market would exert any price pressure at all on eBay.
Not that eBay ignores their presence.
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yes.... its stupid to not list on some of these other sites other than ebay.....
example... bidville........different places has their sell-thru from half of 1% to 3 %........with it being where one can list and forget with no time involved..... listing say 200 items about 5 times each .... making sure each has all the possible keywords and putting in different categories.....this makes 1000 listings per week...... selling between 5 and 30 times per week..... and since no time involved.. 52 weeks means one has sold 260 -1560 items a yr with no listing fees and less fvf fees... so its plain stupid not to list on bidville and at the same time help grow even more competition and if bill gates comes into bidville then watch out!! big competition for ebay then...
so its plain STUPID to not list on bidville!!!
overstock....... if they make it easy like bidville... their sell-thru rate on free list days is 1.5% -3%...... they may have 1 week per month as free listing.... put a 1000 listings there like bidville.... and that is 15 to 30 items per month sales.. or 180 to 360 items per year sold with no listing fees
ioffer don't know the sell_thru rate but its free to list and easy and they have something different ... make it very easy for buyers to make a different offer so sellers should use this site also
so its easy to see how its just plain STUPID not to list on other sites than ebay..... this helps in MANY ways...... first real present profits... and helps ebay keep from raising fees so high which gives selling at ebay more profit for sellers.. and also this shows to ebay how they can have REAL competition if big money comes into one of these sites and this limits ebay from totally gouging sellers in present time......
so sellers be wise.. don't listen to people who are either off their rocker or who own ebay stock.... list and grow other sites and this gives us all sellers more profit!!!!!!!!!
other sites DO have an affect on ebays decisions and pricing NO QUESTION ABOUT IT..... ebay already copied ioffers make an offer!!!!!
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deepriverman:
Just what is the problem with owning ebay stock?
What?
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The problem is owning it now. Should have sold in December.
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nothing wrong with owning ebay stock.... if one has ebay stock they will try to not let any other sites hurt ebay... simple stuff.... and people the talk was zero affect..... so get that straight... the talk was NO effect..... there defininitely is an effict.... the only question is what degree the effect is in limiting ebays price increases...... the more sites with any profit for sellers has an affect.... and the more there are that are stable has another affect the worry that bill gates or another may get bidville or wagglepop going alot better... so these sites are helping sellers now on ebay by keeping prices down..... how much that is the question...... but zero like all the rantings going on is totally wrong!!