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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/.
We recently needed a white power surger with a long cord. Bought one with an 8 foot cord from of all place Best Buy. I mean how can you screw up a 8 foot power surger. Got it in the mail . Well seems the idiots at Best Buy can’t either read or measure. They sent a black three foot one. Opened a case and best buy is questioning all aspects ( their right ) as to the color and size. So here we sit 3 days later. No power cord, no money, no return label. So off to AMAZON. Got the 8 foot white one. Cost 3.00 cheaper and using prime got it today. Happy camper. We will escalate the case to ebay support and wait. Moral is if you purchase from Fleecebay and something goes wrong you need a plan B.
Our plan B is now Plan A. Shop Amazon FIRST
eBay’s sales for this quarter must be absolutely abysmal. And for every instance as “who really cares” described, another buyer picks Amazon (or another more reliable site) to purchase from. eBay may not make it to the five year estimate for closing.
eBay is trying more silly idea’s to try to counteract all the damage they have done recently to sellers, large and small. People are not seeing sellers items. Plain and simple fact. If you can’t see them, you can’t buy them no matter how many coupons there are.
Here is an example of the visibility that has changed since the beginning of the year. To explain the table. The search numbers indicate visibility inside Ebay, the Store shows visibility from outside of eBay. Pretty much says it all. Notice the incredible drop in visibility within eBay as well!!!!
Month Search Store
Jan 445000 12178
Feb 368000 9144
Mar 362000 7259
April 344000 5300
May 331000 2420
June 191000 0000
Just another update. We had new carpet put in this week. Need a new vaccuum. Tried Ebay but for some reason ( glitch again ) we couldn’t get search to find what we wanted. Plan B. Went again to Amazon. Searched and found exactly what we needed. Bought it. And it will be delivered on Sunday with Amazon Prime. I think we are finally done with Ebay buying. I don’t have the time or energy to try and figure out their miserable site. BYE BYE
Did you really means “To Goose Sales” Lol. That was pretty funny……
I can’t wait to see the 2nd quarter end – at least we know they screwed themselves along with all of us