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I registered with Ioffer and downloaded the Mr. Grabber but it says my ebay username and password may not be valid. No luck with the feedback transfer thingie either, it just hangs there.
I like the idea of easily duplicating the ebay stuff to Ioffer, did anyone else encounter this? Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Also tried to check out WildGopher.com that someone was talking about here, but that site name is a dead end.
Maybe I shouldn't quit my day job just yet!
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Same thing happened to me. Sorry I do not have any solutions...I couldn't use it.
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I'm on iOffer and have used the Grabber in the past...
Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't but it's not entirely the Grabber's fault.
eBay is constantly tweaking their pages (I gather that many 3rd party programs have this problem) which throws the program off till it's updated with eBay's new whatever they are doing...
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Mr. Grabber tried to check for an update and then page faulted repeatedly. Then it took the ID and password and hung awhile and then program checked.
eMailed support. No word as of about 20 hours.
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I got their nice customer service folks to manually grab the auctions, but then I realized I would have to manually edit each auction to take out references to my ebay store, and I think they don't like having a customer service phone number in the auction either. Kind of dissillusioned now.
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Somebody over at ebay is claiming these transfers amount to priacy of ebay property. That could be interesting!. I left ioffer simply because of their idiotic communication retraints. Had two customers send me a query, and I had to answer them with an ad. I hate this overwhelming fear of being revealed, personally I want people to know who I am. If I am spending my money for something, I want to see who is getting my money. Especially if I am buying some of the more expensive stuff. I have safe gaurds on my computer, and phone. Far as my home is concerned, I live on a dead-end dirt road. Unwelcome guests leave here assisted by the local law enforcment.
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Originally Posted by jigsawbill
I left ioffer simply because of their idiotic communication retraints. Had two customers send me a query, and I had to answer them with an ad. I hate this overwhelming fear of being revealed, personally I want people to know who I am.
I sure was surprised when the iOffer policy statement:
http://www.ioffer.com/help/listingPolicy.jsp
Personal Information: For your protection we do not allow personal information to be used on our site. Some people will take your personal information for purposes other than the use of iOffer, including Spam and other purposes. Personal information includes email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses, instant messaging ids, or other identifying information.
...but "no fees 'til sold" also sounds like too sweet a deal to walk away from!
JigSawBill, c'mon --
It's understandable, they have to state this in their policy. Besides, there are a lot of listings with 1.800.numbers watermarked into the photos, so apparently the lights are on but nobody (staff) is home over there.
Above, I didn't quote your whole post, but you mentioned "live on a dead-end road".
Considering that iOffer plasters your zipcode across the pages with each appearance of your userid (probably because iOffer's scope encompasses "local pickup" -type items)...
...if you choose a userid which matches or even resembles your business name, that ought to make it real easy for local iOffer shoppers to flip open the phone book and find you! For Anyone who's distant, name + zip could still be enough to look you up online.
I just discovered iOffer (read about it in another here thread)
Mr.Grabber worked fine in retrieving my listings, but the boilerplate text in my descriptions includes eBay-specific phrases (feedback, BuyItNow, eBay store)... so I need to take a different route. After importing the live listings into TurboLister and exporting a CSV file, it was easy to search/replace those phrases. In the process, I chafed at realizing how complacent I had become regarding having eBay "sub-brand" my listings, and cringed from thinking about the ramifications from buyers continually reading "an eBay STORE maintained by..."
iOffer FVFs (my notations are in red):
Up to $4.99 (on iOfferLite) $0.50 FREE {{{thru July 1st, 2005}}}
Up to $4.99 (on iOffer) $0.50
$5.00-$9.99 $0.75 {{{15% -- 7.5%}}}
$10.00-$24.99 $1.25 {{{12.5% -- 5%}}}
$25.00-$99.99 5% of the total transaction amount
$100.00-$1499.99 $5 + 2.5% of the transaction amount over $100
$100 == 5%
$150 == 4.17%
$200 == 3.75%
$400 == 3.125%
$500 == 3%
$750 == 2.83%
$1000 == 2.75%
$1499 == 2.67%
$1500.00 and over $40.00 + 1.5% of the transaction amount over $1500
$1500 == 2.6%
$2500 == 2.2%
$5000 == 1.85%
I also took another look at the Yahoo! "stores" commerce platform this week.
It's not for me, but I was surprised at how good it has become, in terms of services provided, ease of use, and overall value.
$39.95/mo
they provide SSL cert/server, catalog/cart offline editing app, sales tracking and reporting... email hosting, daily backups, domain hosting, FTP account, image hosting, 10Gb storage + 30Gb bandwidth. Hmm, I'm not sure those are the exact limits I read, but it sounded like an all-around respectable domain hosting package in addition to the commerce features.
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Their contact the seller button is absolutely inane. Say I am brand new at shopping on the web. Here I am at ioffer, I see something I like, and click on the contact button. Do I get a normal message text box? Of course not, I am offered the opportunity to author an ad. I am a shopper, not an ad writer. So I'm gone, got myself settled in over there at LiveDeal, and was fortunate enought, this week end to obtain a domain with my user name, so I am going to use my livedeal store in conjunction with my own web site.
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this is just a tiny bit off the direct topic, but if you have auctions running on eBay and grab them onto iofffer with Mr Grabber, how does ioffer treat the auctions? What I mean is, how does your minimum bid on eBay get translated into an ioffer listing?
Thanks in advance
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Hey that is a great question, an outstanding question, but I just don't have the answer, When I did the big grab, all I had was feedbacks.