For once ebay is actually making a change that I like and think is well needed. They are stopping sellers from selling multiples of the same item in 100 different listings. This goes into effect on 26 October. For example, I go into DVDs and find one seller with 50 identical individual listings for 99 cent 3D glasses. It won't cut the glut but it will thin out some areas of Cr^p.
Rick www.ilovefilms.com ________________________________ From: Richard Halegua Comic Art <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, October 8, 2010 2:00:01 PM Subject: [MOPO] fleaBay free listings.. just more clutter 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 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
