I don't know if anyone here knows this yet, I found this on another board I'm on, click on the link to find out more. If this has been posted already, then my apologies. Thought I'd share, came as a bit of a shocker to me. Take care. Phoenix
As much as I hate to say it. I think he was playing off of the trademark. I hope the new site does well. I will be watching for it. Thanks for the link Phoenix.
I saw it also.....and thought that Ebay was correct, same color scheme, " bay", why not try to get as far from ebay as possible when developing a new site I really hope the newer Ebay alternatives will work, AND do more at keepin crooks and fraudsters off the sites. Thanks Phoenix
i had never visited the site before now, so i dont know what it looked like b4, but just the name is too familair. Jack is right, why not get as far away as possible!!!
Not sure how I feel about this one. As AZJack pointed out it was the same color scheme and used the name bay but does ebay now own the rights to the term bay? What's next Tampa Bay? Or course anything that would possibly cut into ebay's profits is bad (for ebay). I've experimented with several other sites in the past. Amazon could have done well until they REQUIRED sellers to use their "version of Paypal". Lost me there. Considering getting back on Overstock but deadbeat bidders abound there. Ebay rules the market, we know this, but even though the fees are "low" they are not the best. They're the biggest and want to keep it that way. Understandable but I feel they have turned into a "greed machine".
Ebay recently raised the *store item* fees 500% overnight, went from 2 cents a month per item to a dime. Not alot, 8 cents per month, BUT 500% across the board, every seller, every item......just arbitrarily raised fees 500%, that really rocked my boat for a day or 50. Where else are you going to get the traffic? A Coin show? Maybe the major circut, but not these little locals. Anybody that can compete WELCOME and good luck. I hope to see more and I hope to see them make it work. Untill then, see ya later, I have to go put more items in my ebay store......grrrrrrrr LOL Aj
i agree with clembo... while i do use Ebay to shop, and just love the traffic to sell ... i do think they have turned into a greed machine!!! they make billions of $$$ a day it seems, and all they can think of is raising fees more here and rasing them more there .... my head spins, and not sure which way to run.. yet!
and just to think, it all started so some guy could help his wife get rid of her beaniebaby clutter collection
I really enjoyed yahoo auctions when they were still alive. I got some AWESOME deals there and also got a chance to establish a couple of really good relationships with the sellers there. In fact, if I'm looking for something, I still e-mail a couple of the guys to see what they have. If you want to check out another auction site, there is www.bidville.com. It ain't got the volume of e-bay (what does?), but it's got that same kind of "yahoo auction" environment. I've never sold anything on there. I just cruise it when I get sick and tired of e-bay.
Which, of course, means that some sellers got hosed. You got the deals, and they got the shafts, for the simple reason that the number of people who saw their auctions wasn't large enough to include multiple potential buyers. That comment on the linked website about is meant to imply that "Big Guys" trying to protect their trademarks and unique "trade dress" are evil. As a staunch capitalist, I for one, absolutely reject that concept. BTW I bought and sold on the old Yahoo site and I got deals as a buyer and hosed as a seller almost every time.
First, I have never sold on Yahoo. Sellers set prices. I'm sorry, but getting "hosed" is the seller's fault. If they say the bid is $3.99 and that's what I bid and there aren't any other bidders, I don't see how the seller got "hosed". The seller has set the price, not me!!!! BUT, the big and HUGE difference between E-bay and all these other sites is that you pay to list items on e-bay whether they sell or not. On Yahoo and many of the other competing sites, you can list your items until you're blue in the face. If they don't sell, you don't pay anything. If they do sell, ok, now you pay something. THAT is the big difference. So I can post my entire 1955 Topps baseball card collection and it just sits there. If it sells, ok, I have to pay something. If it doesn't, I don't pay anything at all. BUT I set the price - so I decide whether I get Hosed or not.
I don't see how coinbay can be competitive. Yahoo auctions used to be free and depended on ads to keep it going but it closed down last year. The only operation that kept it going is in Japan, Singapore and other smaller countries where ebay didn't really grab a hold of.
Frank, Rumor has it the Green Bay Packers are going to change their name to the Red, Blue Yellow and Green Bay Packers. Ebay is gonna buy them. LOL....
moneyfan - be careful when you reply to some threads. You may want to look at the date of the LAST reply. In this case the thread is 4 months old and some of the links may be out of date. Check out the date as the news you read may be old or outdated.
