Selling your stuff on EBID. advice for new sellers

mira666

toffeecoated wrote: »

I have had enough of Ebay and their fees and over fussy rules. I listed a few items on Ebid years ago with very little success and last week i got an e-mail telling me a football shirt i had listed until sold had actually sold, i had forgotten all about it. Anyway the buyer has still not paid or contacted me so hopes are not high. But i am thinking of trying again. Apparently the platinum seller account for £1.99 for seven days enables people to list as many items as they want as run until sold. So unless i have got it wrong i can pay £1.99 then list thousands of items and cancel my subscription and my listings will stay on the site until someone eventually buys them. I am/was selling fridge magnets, i can put any square picture in a magnet. Album covers are very popular, but it involves listing thousands to sell about 5%. And whereas feebay make it easy with turbo lister ebid is a nightmare. The bulk uploader wound me up so much i deleted it and stuck with feebay. But they have gone too far now and i won't use them again.

Incase you are wondering why i don't just list one item saying something like any photo on a magnet or any album cover on a magnet, i tried that but people don't have the imagination to send me a photo, they want everything done for them.

The new ninja lister seems to be working quite well, plus have had another sale today, granted I have like 300 more items to list but will get there eventually

Frugaldom

Well said, Macfly! This is something I've talked about on countless occasions - for real businesses, there isn't a lot will beat the eBay/PayPal combo because we have no overheads unless there's storage costs involved. However, I can see the problem from the individual sellers' points of view, too. Online auctions started as a cheap way for people to offload their surplus but eBay has now, as was expected, gone the commercial route as it's more profitable for the shareholders and less cosly in the legal department. eBid, on the other hand, is still just a place to list stuff in the hope it one day sells. Its success or failure isn't dependent on what the shareholders want, it's just a small business venture set up between a couple if guys and it's growing slowly but steadily. If it takes another 10 years to double in size again then 10 years more to go public, it's still a tidy retirement plan with the potential for a massive windfall. What's £50 now for LIFETIME membership when you count up the years? I'm almost tempted to get my kids to invest, as it may be a very lucrative source of generating an income when they need it most.

On a completely different note, has anyone got a clue what's happening on 25th April for one day only? It's been on the eBid front page for a couple of weeks now and as the day draws closer, I'm dying to know what it's all about.

Could it be free upgrades to Lifetime Seller+ memberships? (That's how I got mine.)
Could it be the opportunity to invest capital in the company?
Could it be a TV advert?
Could it be a celebrity auction?

Isn't anyone else wondering what it could be?

toffeecoated

I can't see any mention of April 25th

wigglebeena

Frugaldom wrote: »

Well said, Macfly! This is something I've talked about on countless occasions - for real businesses, there isn't a lot will beat the eBay/PayPal combo because we have no overheads unless there's storage costs involved. However, I can see the problem from the individual sellers' points of view, too. Online auctions started as a cheap way for people to offload their surplus but eBay has now, as was expected, gone the commercial route as it's more profitable for the shareholders and less cosly in the legal department. eBid, on the other hand, is still just a place to list stuff in the hope it one day sells. Its success or failure isn't dependent on what the shareholders want, it's just a small business venture set up between a couple if guys and it's growing slowly but steadily. If it takes another 10 years to double in size again then 10 years more to go public, it's still a tidy retirement plan with the potential for a massive windfall. What's £50 now for LIFETIME membership when you count up the years? I'm almost tempted to get my kids to invest, as it may be a very lucrative source of generating an income when they need it most.

On a completely different note, has anyone got a clue what's happening on 25th April for one day only? It's been on the eBid front page for a couple of weeks now and as the day draws closer, I'm dying to know what it's all about.

Could it be free upgrades to Lifetime Seller+ memberships? (That's how I got mine.)
Could it be the opportunity to invest capital in the company?
Could it be a TV advert?
Could it be a celebrity auction?

Isn't anyone else wondering what it could be?

Yes. But frankly I find that kind of deliberately placing people in suspenders quite annoying.

Frugaldom

wigglebeena wrote: »

Yes. But frankly I find that kind of deliberately placing people in suspenders quite annoying.

Have to agree, especially if it ends up being something silly. But I'll still be checking in to find out what it's all about in the morning, to see if it's been worth donning the sussies. :rotfl:

Toffeecoated - it's written in fairly small text at top left hand side of the page one when you go onto the UK version of www.ebid.net I haven't checked to see if it's on the USA or any of the others.

Frugaldom

Umm... the 'long awaited fabby day' has arrived, it's 25th April and this is what the site says:

Special Offer Today Only SELLER+ Lifetime.
£14.99*Free T-shirt * Zero Listing Fees * Zero Final Value Fees * 5 Free Photos * 5 Free eBid Stores * Uploads to Google Shopping * Import from eBay * Unlimited Listings * For Life. Upgrade now.*Down from £74.99.

Guess we can put the sussies back in the drawer for another time, Wigglebeena. :rotfl::rotfl:

Bargain for any newcomers or those wanting an online selling platform for their own websites, though. I wonder what publicity has been done with this promotion or if it's just current members who can see it?

wigglebeena

You'd think they'd publicise it a bit more. I'm a bit dubious. Isn't it just going to annoy people who've already paid a lot more? It doesn't really bother me, but then I made back my £50 a fair while ago. What about folks who paid £75 and haven't sold much? I think they'd be better off just picking a price and sticking to it. Or maybe offering some discount system for members who sell X pounds worth of stock in a set time period, since on Ebid it's the workers and canny marketers who seem to do the real business and bring customers in, benefiting others.

soolin

I wouldn't have known about it unless I had seen it here. I frequent a number of other 'selling' forums and no one has mentioned this at all. There are even sellers on Amazon who have stores on ebid and have not mentioned this, so I assume this is another missed opportunity publicity wise.

Frugaldom

Yes, it does seem VERY odd to have such tiny print on their own site promoting a date like it's going to be some big event and then finding out this is all it is - promoted only on their own site. Of course it might be, as Soolin mentioned before, 24 hours that last a very, very long time. I certainly had no idea that's what it was about and only knew about it because there was an email newsletter mentioning to mark the date in the diary. I was kind of expecting a big announcement and feel rather deflated. However, I'll now need to go and see what they're saying about it in the forums over there! I'm suck a nosy so-and-so. Maybe there's a TV or radio advert going out or maybe this is just a test/mock promotion to find out how many people read the newsletters? Time will tell.

toffeecoated

I clicked the £14.99 link and was then offered the lifetime seller+ deal for just £4.02 so i signed up and downloaded the Ninja Lister. Now all i need to do is work out how to use it. Apparently it is possible to import listings from Ebay, if anyone knows how to do this i would appreciate some help.

Thanks