I happily left ebay in 2005 (before even Bruce did) in 2006 I bought MPB
it was one of the smartest things I have done in the last 10 years.
at the time I encouraged people to join me.
no one wanted to come.
At 01:18 PM 8/31/2012, JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia wrote:
Its all a bit mystifying. One minute they are encouraging people to
open stores, the next they want you to go to auctions. Feedback and
ratings don't mean as much as they used to. You now have to prove
that you ship within one day and load tracking details if you are to
maintain Top Seller status. That way you stay high in the searches
but for sellers outside the US it is very difficult to load tracking
details because they are not the same as USPS.
Bruce made a great decision to leave eBay some years ago. I agree
with him that the rules and regulations would make it very difficult
for him to operate these days.
I feel that eBay could have had far more success by making it easier
for sellers to stay with them. A huge number of sellers have
transferred their business to websites - many with great success.
eBay has lost that market and will never be able to regain it.
JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA
Website: <http://www.moviemem.com>www.moviemem.com
Facebook: <http://www.facebook.com/moviemem>http://www.facebook.com/moviemem
PO Box 92
Elanora
Qld 4221
Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Rix Posterz
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] eBay free listings
I really believe it all has to do with how much money you're
pulling in for eBay. A few months ago, when my numbers went south,
they started nailing me with B.S. that had never happened
before. If you make them their money, they'll leave you alone and
give you the perks...if you don't... then axe comes down.
Bunch of mealy-mouthed scoundrels as far as I'm concerned. They
don't give a good goddam if you have 12,000 positive feedbacks and
rate 100%...once the sales slump off, they go for the throat...
Rick
<http://www.ebay.com/sch/rixposterz/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=50>http://www.ebay.com/sch/rixposterz/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=50
In a message dated 8/30/2012 3:19:29 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
I am waiting for eBay to offer to PAY sellers to list items, and
even then I would have to think long and hard about listing there.
I know some people love it, but it is not my cup of tea. They have
added so many anti-seller rules that I would be petrified after
every sale, both that I might be scammed out of my poster, and that
the buying might leave bad feedback for me and restrict my account.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Geraldine Kudaka
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
EBAY USER ID: silky_buddha
We got the invite and are selling original movie art & Star Wars items.
We do not sell cheap repro & reprints.
We sell only original art -- well, we do have copies, but these are
copies made by the production and are vintage, production used art work.
Our prices are less than what prop store sells art for -- i.e., an
original pen, ink & marker concept sketch of Judge Hershey (in her
Judge's uniform, with Lawblaster) sold for $89. That's screen used,
original concept art which, at commercial movie prop/memorabilia
sites, sells for over $400.
We have Giger signed art. Not up, but to be listed, original art by
Chris Foss for Flash Gordon... original storyboards & concept art by
Alex Tavolouris, the first concept artist hired by Lucas for Star Wars...
All original, not cheap repro...
Of course, we had other items, like the British Quad Star Wars which
--- got STOLEN!!!! -- anyone remember this story???? Missing Quad
probably was sold by Heritage, but since we got 2 of each poster,
our other Quad remains for ebay auction...
Plus, a lot of high end items have sold at a BIN auction within 30
minutes of listing. Some within 5 minutes of listing.
Of course, the 50K items does not apply to us because we are selling
vintage items and end up paying UK listing fees anyway.
There's no free lunch -- or at least, legal free lunches.
From: John Waldman <<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: [MOPO] eBay free listings
I got the invite, but not to list 50,000 items. I haven't sold
anything on Ebay for over a year.
JW
From: JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]>
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:41 PM
Subject: [MOPO] eBay free listings
Hi MoPoers
eBay currently has a promotion running where many sellers have been
offerred up to 50,000 free auction listings for about nine days up
until Aug 31. This has resulted in some sellers flooding the site
with cheap repros and reprints. The crazy thing is that the offer
has been sent "by invitation only" and it seems to have been done at
random. Store sellers are not eligible so anyone who has a store
would be seeing a big drop in sales while this promotion is on.
Just curious as to whether any MoPo members received the invitation
to list 50,000 items on auction.
Regards
John
JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA
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