I have been on ebay now for just under 15 years and have seen a ton of changes. A few good but most not to my benefit. I have tried other venues including CQOut (in the UK) and iOffer to just name a couple. The thing I liked about those two were that they did not charge a posting fee and you only paid fees on items that sold. The one thing missing with them was customer traffic. I had over 1,000 items listed on CQOut and sold 4 in about 2 years so it wasn't worth the trouble listing them. What did they recomment for me to do to increase sales? List more items..... As much as I wanted to get away from ebay I just found that even with the fees I was making money listing there and not sitting around hoping someone would stumble across the site. I am not strictly a movie collectible seller so I need a site where I can offer an assortment of collectibles from stills, lobby cards, stamps, music memorabilia, books and more. I have my own site but again the traffic is a tiny fraction of what ebay can offer so I post on ebay and then introduce my buyers to my own website for additional sales.
Ebay is currently my best option so hate her as I may.... I will continue to list. Rick www.ilovefilms.com ________________________________ From: Franc <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, April 3, 2011 7:07:25 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] OT is eBay worth getting involved with Ebay is definitely worth doing if you tweak it correctly. Doing a lot of expensive auctions, never worked for me. I use Ebay to establish a base of customers and then I bring them into my own website which of course has no fees or commissions. I also don;t like spending a tremendous amount of time listing items manually. I have a dbase and I load auctions from my dbase, meaning I only have to catalogue items once throughout their lifetime. I know people who manually list itmes on Ebay and other services and it's way too time-consuming and tedious for me to do that. You've got to play with it for a while and see what works for you. There are other selling boards and services out there but they haven't been profitable or advantageous for me. FRANC -----Original Message----- >From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of All About >Movies >Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 12:34 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [MOPO] OT is eBay worth getting involved with > > >Hi all > >I am keen to get the opinions of the dealers out there that either are on eBay >now or have been or possibly revisiting. I have have sold a few posters over >the >past years but not alot due to the time taken to have mass volumes up for >sale. >I also run a DVD business (since 1995) via my own website (Australia's largest >database of every movie or documentary ever released in Australia onto video >or >DVD). Sort of like an IMDB of video and DVD pertaining to Australia.Hence why >you can see eBay comes second. > >From what I read it would seem most dealers "put up" with eBay (fleabay) >because >unless you have a huge amount of money to invest in your own website such as >Bruce or Grey then it is either eBay or your own site. If you look around the >DVD industry which is highly competitive, alot of big players have eBay as >well >as there own websites which would suggest even in a very very competitive >industry such as DVD, there is life in eBay. However with the recent shipping >final fee controversy, is this the final nail in the coffin (fee wise) for >some >and thus poster sellers are leaving or is there still life in eBay yet for >someone considering to re-enter itwith posters? > >Look forward to hearing some words of wisdom from experienced folk > >Kind Regards >Ben Wadley >Ph:07 33798566 >Fax: 07 33798128 >Po Box 2135, Graceville, 4075 >www.allaboutmovies.com.au > > > > > > > > > >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. 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.
