eBay Mess

[iggyman]

Here is a month-old story but it relates to Ebay's demise.............err, I mean.......grand vision of catering to giant retailers and third-party vendors (ala Amazon). They are now getting some serious competition from Sears and Wal-Mart.

http://www.apparelnews.net/features/...Style-Business


You can now go to the Wal-Mart website and purchase a replica Mark McGwire Autographed rookie card picture for only $499. Heck, your wife can now type-in the name Babe Ruth in their search facility and walk away with some nice looking (but expensive) picture frames........http://www.walmart.com/search/search...rch_query=ruth


It is just a matter of time before eBay goes "poof" and reverts back to catering to the medium-size and smaller-size seller. By then it will be too late, the only question will be whether the grave will me marked or unmarked?

Lovely Day...

[barrysloate]

I've looked at those item specifics when I list something to sell, but they are not always applicable. Maybe they plan on improving them. Why couldn't they just leave it alone?

[Leon]

As I told someone this morning...I have a search set for each year below 1930 and it works. The problem is that a lot of the really neat stuff I have found doesn't have a year exactly associated with it or is not in the title. No matter what ebay says they have really screwed it up. It's their business so I guess they are doing what they think is best. Only time will show them that they are wrong. Their financial numbers, in our cards categories, will dwindle. At that time they might re-evaluate their idiocy.

[tbob]

Originally Posted by iggyman

Here is a month-old story but it relates to Ebay's demise.............err, I mean.......grand vision of catering to giant retailers and third-party vendors (ala Amazon). They are now getting some serious competition from Sears and Wal-Mart.

http://www.apparelnews.net/features/...Style-Business


You can now go to the Wal-Mart website and purchase a replica Mark McGwire Autographed rookie card picture for only $499. Heck, your wife can now type-in the name Babe Ruth in their search facility and walk away with some nice looking (but expensive) picture frames........http://www.walmart.com/search/search...rch_query=ruth


It is just a matter of time before eBay goes "poof" and reverts back to catering to the medium-size and smaller-size seller. By then it will be too late, the only question will be whether the grave will me marked or unmarked?

Lovely Day...

Gosh you can get a heavily circulated, beaten up 1936 nickel for only $400 on WalMart.com, what a deal!

[iggyman]

Originally Posted by tbob

Gosh you can get a heavily circulated, beaten up 1936 nickel for only $400 on WalMart.com, what a deal!

And this is the business model that eBay is striving to replicate. Phase-out the auction format because it is so 1990's (plus, their research have showned that people are weary of them). Get the power sellers and third-party retailers to sell everthing via buy-it-now.

Lovely Day...

[HRBAKER]

I might suggest is that any sellers that read this board start using the phrase "pre 1930" in their auction headers or listings. Wouldn't that turn up on a search?
Maybe something as simple as "P30" would work.

[Edwolf1963]

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