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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.
Here is a prime example why Ebay should never try and challenge the big players. These companies also carry their own merchandise. WHAT A CONCEPT!
Until they decide to open warehouses and purchase their own goods, Ebay needs to realize that they are NOT Amazon or Wal-Mart, and to just “Stay In Yo Lane” (LaVar Ball quote).
Memo To Ebay: Just embrace your seller base of folks who procure, warehouse, list, ship, and do all your dirty work for you. And get back to the basics of allowing smaller businesses to flourish. Then you can perhaps enjoy double-digit revenue growth like every other company in your market sector.
Wal-Mart closed many Sam’s Club outlets just for the purpose of turning them into eCommerce shipping centers. And they have unlimited funds to squash the competition. Since WM has no interest in selling used and collectible merchandise, this gives Ebay a clear advantage in these categories.
But, no, the suits at the Bay still think they can beat Amazon and Wal-Mart on prices of new & commodity items. The ends just will not meet if they think they can successfully combat the Goliaths of retail.
Walmart and Amazon continue to innovate, while eBay continues implement harebrained schemes that usually backfire on them. eBay should return to what made them famous in the first place: offering rare, out of production and hard-to-find items that you couldn’t purchase locally.
Our family loves shopping on line with walmart. We haven’t had a problem in over a year with the site and with free shipping to our doorstep its great….Ebay well bye bye.