I don't understand why CT-er's list Silver on eBay

I say hate because it makes more sense. Most people probably wouldn't understand the way I respond to anger.

But anything you say on the internet lacks little meaning in real life. It's just words on a liquid crystal display. If I were to cuss you out on the internet, it would carry very little weight versus cussing you out in real life.

I never said it makes me 15% more, I said around 15 percent of everything I sell on every venue is on eBay.

 

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For me personally.Every time I list a coin on cointalk, I average around 40 visits to my Ebay store directly from Cointalk. I get reports from Ebay that tells me where my traffic comes from. I get people from Cointalk who may not be interested in the coin i linked, who are interested in one of my other 500 coins for sale. Some people contact me here, others feel more comfortable buying on Ebay.

Just like retails store getting shoppers in the store is more than half the battle. Ever wonder why grocery store will sell ketchup 4th of july weekend for 69 cents? They will take the loss on the ketchup, becuase they know on average people will buy 4-5 more items not on sale.

Also. I cant list every coin I have for sale on cointalk, so its a heck of alot easier to link my store

 

Those are called loss-leaders.

I understand what your saying, but you should try selling a few things here and seeing what happens.

 

BKOZAK...whatever you do...do the opposite of what brawndo says...please

 

I do.

 

who is brawndo?

 

There is a white metal garbage can in my doctor's office with the name DETECTO stamped on the cover. Not kidding.

 

They make good biohazzard trash cans besides scales. However my username has no affiliation with the company.

 

Brawndo is a sports drink they spray on plants in the movie. However Brawndo is a thing, not a person. Not sure where the OP got the confusion from.

 

When I open this thread and read the latest posts...

 

When I said I was do with ebay I meant it had similar problems yet I was in the right how do you leave negative feedback when you write me a bad check!!!!!! I primarily was a buyer not a seller I have had zero to do with that site since 2005 with the exception that acouple times people told me about things for sale and bid on it for me and I paid them a commission for doing that I prefer real auctions or real transactions not some half ass auction that can be stopped anytime by a buy it now i remember a rare Boston needlework I was the high bidder at $1200 on (my max bid with 5 days to go was $3800) and they cancelled the auction!!! I was beyond pissed off i planned on doubling my last bid later is policy's like these that made me stop doing business with a heinously incompetent site!!

 

brawndo is a future product from idiocracy that is all idiots drink, water plants with, etc.

 

People can leave you negative feedback for any reason. When I called eBay when one of the negative feedback's had a cuss word in it, they claimed you needed a court order to have it removed (Seriously?!). Many of the reps I talked to even pretended like the bad word (It was a lot more than PG13, believe me) didn't exist because you can't leave negative feedback with cuss words in it, so they didn't want to remove it.

Yet around November, many of us watched as Toys 'R Us received dozens of negative feedback for selling out of stock items, and the next day, "poof" they were all gone.

There were also troll accounts that were leaving large numbers of negatives for people, but eBay turned a blind eye to them.

I can buy something from anyone on eBay, and leave a negative saying whatever I want to "seller eats boogers", and there isn't anything you can do.

That's the biggest flaw, and many competitors of sellers were registering sock accounts to lower the feedback of their competitor.

eBay caters to the buyer and the big sellers. It has become too commercialized. I don't see hardly any small sellers like I used to.

 

im not the OP. and you are definitely brawndo.

 

I can say I hate ebay and don't have to weasel or retract it. One reason it is to be hated because there is no good alternative so they can run it however they want. I'll still support the idea of trying to sell coins here first. If more members posted coins here the idea may become more popular.

 

That's exactly the basis of my disregard for them.

However the alternatives are growing in size, Etsy gets like 1 million new members each month.

Once a better place starts growing in size it will only be a matter of time before the scales tip and eBay becomes the less popular place.

 

Here is the problem I have with this Tim...you sit there and talk about how bad eBay is because their fees are so high. You flat out called them "evil." But, because you are an "entrepreneur" you choose to sell certain items on eBay because it is more profitable. You don't need them...but you use them.

The thing of it is...those fees are high because sales on eBay realize better prices than on other sites because of the number of people who see the ads. It's all about advertising. The more people that see the item...the more it should sell for. This is a basic business fact.

Another fact is advertising costs money. It's very expensive and the more people it reaches the more it costs. That fact that some items are more profitable if sold on eBay is proof that using them is a benefit. Yes, you pay more there...but if your profit is covering the additional expense and then some, you are winning.

The issue I have with what you are doing is complain about how bad they are...yet you are using their service and making a profit doing it. You are right...you don't "have" to use them...but you are better off doing so.

You can't "have your cake and eat it too." You either don't like eBay's policies so you don't use them...or you accept them as part of doing business and you deal with them. You can't do both...and posting your items for sale with someone else's account isn't a solution to this dilemma.

 

eBay doesn't need to advertise. It seems silly that huge companies like eBay, coke, etc spend money on advertising, it's not like no one has ever heard of them.

Spending millions a year to advertise something 99% of the populace already knows about seems foolish.

 

I thought Etsy was more of an online craft fair. I just looked and see that coins can be listed under vintage but they must be 20 years old.

 

Of course they need to advertise...that's why they pump a ton of money into it. They get a huge return on that money.

But, that's not what I was talking about. When you list an item for sale on eBay or esty or on your little website...you are advertising it. The more people it reaches...the more money it costs. That is why eBay is more expensive than esty and why it is more expensive than your personal site. The amount of people who see your item justifies their fees.