Selling limits (throttling) NOT LISTING LIMITS

ballisticbrian

eBay may seem like a main stay, but all these things come and go. The internet has only just been invented in geological time. What tomorrow brings will be bigger, brighter, better, hopefully a lot more interesting...

RFW

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Following on from my comment about there being too many sellers on ebay, the market is really ripe for a new ebay with about 300 invited sellers (only). Has anyone outside of eBay got the clout to do it???

There's several doing it right now, whether any will have the impact remains to be seen. The two main ones are Alibaba with Main 11, the soon to be relaunched Rakuten. Tesco have been doing that for a while now, their mrketplace seems to have some popularity but no one has yet come close to challenging Ebay and Amazon.

ballisticbrian

Yeah I wasn't really clear, I would love a site with 3 or 4 hundred unique, niche, craft and hobby and home-made sellers. I'm not thinking of Tescos invited ROLEX shop for example. Real nitty gritty sellers who put tonnes of quality items up on eBay. But eBay does not engage with these sellers at all, or even respect them on any level, that is , other than the flood of junk mail it sends gumpth to evey one. And really, Tecos offering might as well be a reflection of corporate society , and the general homogenisation which we saw destroy the high street. Instead of bringing that homogenisation back through the internet, what we realy need is some cutting edge thinking with the money behind it to promote.

Brooker_Dave

moneysavingexpert should launch an auction site

RFW

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

moneysavingexpert should launch an auction site

I'm sure they'd hate the idea, it's a sure fire way of alienating a good portion of people. That's the problem with an auction site, there's always, at some point going to be an unhappy buyer or seller.

RFW

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Yeah I wasn't really clear, I would love a site with 3 or 4 hundred unique, niche, craft and hobby and home-made sellers. I'm not thinking of Tescos invited ROLEX shop for example. Real nitty gritty sellers who put tonnes of quality items up on eBay. But eBay does not engage with these sellers at all, or even respect them on any level, that is , other than the flood of junk mail it sends gumpth to evey one. And really, Tecos offering might as well be a reflection of corporate society , and the general homogenisation which we saw destroy the high street. Instead of bringing that homogenisation back through the internet, what we realy need is some cutting edge thinking with the money behind it to promote.

One of the banks has, sort of, been trying that. They launched a platform to promote items. I actually got a couple of sales off it, unfortunately it is so badly promoted that I can't even remember its name right now!
The banks would have an advantage in knowing which businesses would be worth asking. I doubt the banks have the foresight to manage it well, if at all.
It's the same old story though it isn't such a great proposition for a start up. The best hope would be a few shop sites, Shopify, EKM, Wordpress etc to get together and have a plug-in/add-on that joins them all up into one bigger site.

justjohn

Internal document released by an ebay employee in dec 2014


http://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Business-Seller-Board/Throttling-sales-the-cats-out-the-bag-now/td-p/4062532/page/3


oops lol

*Rainbow*Warrior*

ballisticbrian wrote: »

Yeah I wasn't really clear, I would love a site with 3 or 4 hundred unique, niche, craft and hobby and home-made sellers. I'm not thinking of Tescos invited ROLEX shop for example. Real nitty gritty sellers who put tonnes of quality items up on eBay. But eBay does not engage with these sellers at all, or even respect them on any level, that is , other than the flood of junk mail it sends gumpth to evey one. And really, Tecos offering might as well be a reflection of corporate society , and the general homogenisation which we saw destroy the high street. Instead of bringing that homogenisation back through the internet, what we realy need is some cutting edge thinking with the money behind it to promote.

Have you looked at etsy?
https://www.etsy.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=etsy_e&utm_campaign=search_uk_brand_main_st_exact_etsy&gclid=CPuajIrhxsUCFSvJtAod9ngAhg&gclsrc=aw.ds