Ebay and other online auction powerselling tips and information

Buyers? I have plenty of them! I've sold 100% of my listings over the last 3 weeks and this is looking like week 4. The recent price increase is only .05 cents on ads over .99 and under 9.99 and the .25 FVF increase, no big deal. Ebay Works & Works Well.

I'm always amazed at how people seem to think that just because something worked for THEM, it works for EVERYONE and in GENERAL. Very faulty logic indeed.

The ebay fee increases of several years ago forced me to almost stop listing auctions. The ebay store was my next move which was a VERY slow start. It did better after a few years but over the summer my fees there went up 400% while my sell through rates continued to decline. The analysts are correct. Ebay has been pricing themselves out of the market for year and the more they act this way, the LESS revenue they will get as us dealers go to better venues that are concerned about their vendors. Heaven help us small business folks. Ebay sure doesn't. John

I sent them a direct email (not via ebay/half.com etc) and got an auto reply, as posted after this message.
Is anyone else getting these and has anyone heard from them otherwise?
It's all a big pain in the butt!
Good luck to you all!
Pete

Dear Valued Customer,

This auto-generated email is to confirm that we received your inquiry.

We are experiencing technical difficulties. If you have not received your order please be sure we are working hard to get all orders filled on a timely basis. Some customers will instead be refunded, due to prolonged delays. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused and appreciate your patience and understanding.

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Darn. Wrong thread. It's late.
But at least you can see what drama is going on elsewhere! ;)

This is leading to eBay sellers trying to figure out more and more innovative ways of selling outside eBay.

A friend of mine is a programmer and one of his customers had him write a program to do following :
1) Retrieve the list of bidders and the corresponding items from his ebay id.
2) Create a shopping cart for that user in his own store. If the user does not exist create the user.
3) Send out email to the user with the link saying we have your products ready to ship just make the payment using the link below and the goods will ship immediately.

Using this technique this guys is able to sell to each of his bidder instead of just the highest bidder and avoid commission on all but one buyer.

That's awesome, how do you get their email addresses?

That's an interesting advertising and selling technique. Although I don't sell anything on e-bay your words moved me. However, it is obvious that a price increase could only scare away customers and buyers., so it would be wise to try and keep your prices affordable and especially appropriate for your products.

Like it or not, this is the way of finance in a world of mixed economies. Welcome to the real world!

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