ebay sucks
At 07:50 PM 12/1/2011, JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia wrote:
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
JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA
Website: www.moviemem.com
PO Box 92
Elanora
Qld 4221
Australia
----- 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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