well fleaBay has been desperate for listings, so they've been having
free listings.
No listing fees, just final value fees
sadly, all it has done is add to garbage clutter. for instance, movie
posters -US has 60% more posters listed this week than they have been
having for a long time (almost 9000 listings instead of the 5500 or
so listings they had been having)
but while there have been more listings, there aren't more auctions.
You have every seller listing at set sale prices and all it has done
is add to clutter, plus I think that "true auction listings" are
actually fewer than 2 weeks ago
meaning: you can't hardly find items listed at 99 cents or $1 or $5
(like Bruce does from his site, like I do from my site, etc) for
valuable items that you might actually want to bid on to see if you
can get a nice piece for a fair price
personally, I think it's working against the buyers - last night I
almost stopped looking because it's become tiring to see Revenge of
the Jedi posters at $1000 or 50s sci-fi at double their true value.
I'll admit, fleaBay made a good judgement to make listings free for
the time being, but with no controls (as if they could actually place
any controls) and dealers just listing store items as auctions to get
traffic - it just doesn't look like a benefit to buyers
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