Hate Ebay? How you can help me.

custardy

soolin wrote: »

Quite right..our streets are paved with gold you know and our lifestyle idyllic. Oh, wait, hang on a moment i think i must have just slipped into a parallel world there for a moment :rotfl:

BTW, I had a buyer contact me from Glasgow today to say her item had just turned up and asking me how i managed to get a postman to deliver it to her on a Sunday. I'm obviously special.

Its December
always extra deliveries in the 'pressure'

soolin

laying4profit wrote: »

Ok comeon then Soolin i would love to here how you would do it then.
ANd i mean it, im interested in how you would do it.

Having been an auction seller for more years than I care to recall I actually wouldn't set up my own site. Big ones have given up or failed, medium ones have failed and run up personal debts, smaller ones (and I've watched half a dozen launch and struggle into obscuriity) have just faded away.

I'd be looking for a new opportunity. Why try and reinvent ebay or ebid, do something entirely new that's how money is made.

laying4profit

KChildheart wrote: »

*reference to an earlier post*

Maybe you live in Gloucestershire too? Same street perhaps? O_O :rotfl: (couldn't resist, sorry)

quick question.

Laying4Profit... if you joined in January 2010 ....why am I still in december?

Because im special.

laying4profit

soolin wrote: »

Having been an auction seller for more years than I care to recall I actually wouldn't set up my own site. Big ones have given up or failed, medium ones have failed and run up personal debts, smaller ones (and I've watched half a dozen launch and struggle into obscuriity) have just faded away.

I'd be looking for a new opportunity. Why try and reinvent ebay or ebid, do something entirely new that's how money is made.

Not the answer i was hoping for but ok.

forgotmyname

Oh dear soolin, You have not given them the answers they need to setup this business.

If they fail its all down to your lack of advice, lol.

You could claim consultancy fee but they dont need any outside help that would cost money. Reason for
this post i suppose.

Free consultancy.

KChildheart

On the other hand, we need more optimism around here!

Goodluck with all your ebay sales and goodluck to OP for at least trying to get some competition out there.

laying4profit

KChildheart wrote: »

On the other hand, we need more optimism around here!

Goodluck with all your ebay sales and goodluck to OP for at least trying to get some competition out there.

Thanks mate. Its ok i know there will be people take the micky, but i just let them have thier say.
I am not going to give up with it either, It might take a few years but who cares.
As long as i can offer a better place to sell items i am sure i will do ok.:T

cyberbob

KChildheart wrote: »

On the other hand, we need more optimism around here!

Goodluck with all your ebay sales and goodluck to OP for at least trying to get some competition out there.

laying4profit wrote: »

Thanks mate. Its ok i know there will be people take the micky, but i just let them have thier say.
I am not going to give up with it either, It might take a few years but who cares.
As long as i can offer a better place to sell items i am sure i will do ok.:T

:rotfl:Well that's made my day start with a smile. Hilarious:rotfl::rotfl:

StaffsSW

laying4profit wrote: »

As long as i can offer a better place to sell items i am sure i will do ok.:T

If you could offer a better place to BUY items, then no doubt you would do very well indeed....

mirko

soolin wrote: »

Having been an auction seller for more years than I care to recall I actually wouldn't set up my own site. Big ones have given up or failed, medium ones have failed and run up personal debts, smaller ones (and I've watched half a dozen launch and struggle into obscuriity) have just faded away.

I'd be looking for a new opportunity. Why try and reinvent ebay or ebid, do something entirely new that's how money is made.

Unfortunately I think that's the only course of action that anyone can sensibly take..

The only conceivable way I can see that ebay could be toppled as the main auction hub would be if facebook or google attempted to usurp them by adding some sort of auctioning facility into their current products. Apart from that it'd take something absolutely huge.

I guess an auction site for a specific type of niche product may *possibly* be an idea, but I still think ebay is going to be far and away the biggest auction site for some time to come.