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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/.
Seeing the Big Picture :
The Magnet is : OLD SCHOOL.
I have TONS of people coming to my site and purchasing.
Whatever is in charge….is seeing this.
Now, I get regular emails telling me how ancient my site looks.
Apparently they feel threatened.
Turns out, THAT’S what is Attracting people to my site.
Customers are burned out on the cookie cutter, bland, commi looking websites.
Mine is a completely individual breath of fresh air.
When a platform arrives that allows people the freedom to make a site that looks like mine,
it will be a giant step forward.
wait, let me see if i understand this,
sellers pay up to 35% of their sales (including shipping)
but then they must pay indescriminate (unknown until they are billed) amounts for
customers to see the product?
what was going on BEFORE marketplaces adapted SEOs to grab more money?
is this even legal? however opaque this scheme is…..
what would happen if sellers charged their customers X dollars, ‘INCLUDING the SHIPPING’ (wow)
than told them they had to send $5 more handling charge before we shipped it out???