Hi Rich
I agree with you. Its interesting that I had quite a few "Offlist" replies
to the questions I raised on MoPo. It seems that some think that any
discussion about eBay is likely to cause friction. eBay probably still is
the largest marketplace for original movie posters despite the fact that
they keep changing their gourndrules so I would have thought some discussion
is relevant.
Regards
John
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Halegua Posters + Comic Art" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] eBay
John, the answer is...
fleaBay listings drop every year in Oct-Dec in total number. so fleaBay,
trying to capture lost revenue, has these Free or 1penny listing days or
nickel or whatever so that people load the site up to make up for fewer
listings otherwise. Obviously, they are seeing some positive expectation
each week, so they keep running the promotion. Because there are no
parameters, you get people who might not otherwise list lots of stuff to
go completely overboard, and others who want to list cheap stuff that they
might not be able to justify listing fees on hundreds or thousands of
items.
unfortunately, most of the material listed is either just super-over
priced merch, or complete garbage and it doesn't do much to get actual
fair bid auctions listed. so the extra listings not only have no use to
someone like myself as a buyer and actually make it completely cumbersome
to sift through 500 extra pages of listings. so anything I might have been
interested that was listed yesterday, in all likelihood I will miss
because I'm never going to be able to get through all those pages.
the people who list those useless placeholders, like svejlandusa, who
apparently is here in Vegas (I do not even know who it is, nor does Cinema
Collectors know) are the most aggravating because it take 15 minutes just
to scroll through page after page of his non-listings
I can definitely see why dealers with store might get pissed off.. you're
really getting screwed monetarily AND your listings disappear in all the
garbage
fleaBay sucks!!
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