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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/.
I’m no financial guru…but…they’re LOSING 5% PROFIT on every sale today.
Do they think gross sales dazzles stockholders such that net profit becomes irrelevant?
awright…missed the fine print….but…any profit on non-eligible items could easily be wiped out by the loss on the eligible ones.
Speaking of the fine print…as is typical of ebay, what they give you in the splash: “15% Off EVERYTHING”
…they then take away in the fine print: “Min $25”
The real insanity is putting “everything” in ALL CAPS!!!
Typical ebay come on. Tried using the perfect day 15 per cent discount. GUESS WHAT. WE ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM PLEASE TRY LATER. Off to Amazon where I know I won’t have a problem. I don’t have the time for Ebay problems. LATER EBAY.
Sure hasn’t done a darn thing for me. I sale from a regular customer. I’m still throttled. Oh well, I continue to work on my Etsy account. 1 sale and ready to climb.
Three months ago, I was selling 7 – 10 items every Saturday. Today. 1 from a reliable source., If I’m not selling, I’m also not buying. Jeepers, eBay has no IQ as a whole.
Many sellers didn’t even know there was a sale. Hahahaha. Good grief. From the feedback boards, it sounds like with the issues trying to get the coupon to work and most posting no sales at all, I guess it was a big fat waste of time.
The coupons at the end of March, I contacted some customers to let them know. According to some of the terrible gruesomes on the boards, they said I was stalking customers.. Hahahaha. Lord help me.