Email a copy of 'eBay Tries Boosting Selling Prices with New Promotion' to a friend
Loading ...
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/.
Shouldn’t that top line read more like: “COME BACK…WE NEED YOU”…???
More spaghetti thrown at the wall. If things are THAT bad, why limit a promotion?
I never received the invitation. The first I heard of it but I am sure a lot of sellers would be scared to list something like that and get a SNAD with the return that they paid for being a box of rocks.
eBay = Dead Man Walking
Anything worth more than fifty bucks gets listed on other sites. To many returns and scammers on ebay to even chance it. SORRY EBAY BUT ITS YOUR FAULT.
Given it’s ebay, a better promo would be “FREE Return Shipping on ALL SNADS!!!”
…no limit for 1 year.
And allow photo evidence of false and fraudulent SNADS.
Isn’t this the second promotion where they stated, “Don’t Stop Now! Keep on Selling”? The number of sellers must be getting lower every day if they have to put out reminders to keep listing.
I wonder just how many received the promotion. I have a store and my husband has a regular account. Neither of us received anything. I’m guessing it was extremely selective.
I’m a 20-year, $600K lifetime seller…no got either.
Did get 500 1cent auction listings.
Well now I am wondering who got this promo since no one seems to have any idea what it is about or was this just sent to the media. Newbies might have gotten it but I have been selling for over 19 years and never saw it until yesterday when Ina put this on. Is this another “glitch”?
eBay = Dead Man Walking
I’m a 20-year eBay seller but I didn’t receive this offer.
Just listed three $50+ items (2 are $100+).
I had an offer for 100 $.05 auction listings. That won’t do me much good since I rarely use the 50 free listings each month!
lies. all lies.
Good luck with that eBay……you are not trusted and neither is your website; all the spin in the world won’t change that! I didn’t get that promotion or any other promotion in some time now. I list very little these days on eBay and spend the bulk of my time beefing up other venues, where I can see some longevity. Time equals money, eBay thinks it can usurp both and still kick me like a dog. My listings have dropped by 50% over the last 3 months and pretty soon it will be even less, I also ditching my store subscription. Furthermore, where I use to spend my disposable income on eBay, because of the way I have been treated as a seller, out of principle, I don’t buyer there. Hey eBay ……the term is “irrelevant”; like a dinosaur!