eBay Ads Cast Doubt on Amazon Prime Day Deals

by: FeelingFroggy

As much as we hate to agreed with Ebay. The preview we have seen has prices comparable to Ebay or a tad higher. So Ebay is probably the best deal around BUT

We prefer to shop Amazon even if it means paying a tad more. LESS HASSLE more postive transaction.

by: futervest

Yet another reason to stop selling on ebay ITS A GIVE AWAY MARKET. There is no money to be made in a market that promotes the lowest possible price. The only one that stays in business is eBay.  It may be good for the buyer but is DEATH to the seller.

by: RL15

if anyone wants to try to buy anything on fleece bay, good luck with the search results showing anything you are looking for.

by: Snapped

A certain sign of business desperation is revealed when a business with nothing 'special' to offer themselves is reduced to trying to gain attention by demeaning their main competition.  Using children, no less.

Happens in politics too.  (e.g. negative ads).

What's really sad though, is that before eBay threw away (instead of leveraging) their ''successful past'', they OWNED the whole 'resale' e-marketplace without peer.  To be sure, retail, by volume alone, is a larger playground and there's no faulting attempts to stake a claim there, but abandoning what they could not be matched by in favor of what they can not match was not the smart way to do it.

So now, in comparison, they have diminished themselves to a pleading also-ran with nothing to unique to offer but a race to the bottom - from which only THEY, not their sellers, might profit.  

And that's only IF a buyer can find what THEY seek, instead of what eBay has decided they 'know better' to offer.

'Color' it pitiful.

by: grandlady

I had some eBay auction listings that ended yesterday with no bids. eBay wanted me to relist them at .99. They even had a button to do it automatically. I was appalled. I am not a 99 cent store. But eBay would have lots of bargains for Prime Day...

by: BuildingMyOwnSite

@Grandlady:

DO NOT DO ANYTHING EBAY ADVISES YOU TO DO!

(I expect you already know this)

WHO, would advise their customers (sellers) to give up that easily, and list for $0.99???  

NO ALGORITHM in the world can POSSIBLY advise sellers correctly in that situation.  WHY! doesn't Ebay see how UTTERLY STUPID THEY LOOK BY DOING THAT?   (Sitting here pulling my hair out)........

I give up

by: BuildingMyOwnSite

@Grandlady:

The Dollar store just went out of business in our town last month.  'Course if they were .99, maybe they would have survived.....

by: pace306

"Their Prime Deal Is Our Everyday Deal"

Yeh, but your VERO isnt THEIR VERO

Your hidden rules changes arent THEIR rules changes

Your insanity is no one elses but your own.

The price match was for 600 SELECT vendors - what about the REST of us?

by: Sierra

I just saw one of the eBay prime day commercials and couldn't help but chuckle. Go eBay! I sell on both sites, and both are equally slow.  

by: Chicago48

I doubt Ebay is #2 anymore.  If you go to downdetector, everyone experiencing glitches.  Customers cannot checkout.  Sellers cannot list.  It's a mess.

by: maxmad

I actually compared some of eBay's deal prices  to amazon's everyday prices,

Amazon was cheaper.......without prime day

Negative advertising doesn't work, everyone knows that, plus ebay is delusional to think it can even compete with amazon,

Ebay stocks nothing, owns no product, has no warehouse, ships nothing,

Maybe they should have discounted seller fees, before running this fake ad  

by: RKTOYS

As much as I'd like lower fees, eBay's more difficult fight is against customer poverty and herd mentality.  Were eBay to drop all fees but Paypal, it would only be a ~12% drop in price.  In toys, you're looking at a customer base that won't touch anything for less than 40% off and then half the time they'll expect free shipping to boot.  It's the economy and it's out of eBay's hands at this point.

by: RKTOYS

Sometimes I wonder if people collect toys or chain store receipts.  It's astounding to me to read the complaints about distribution and driving to stores for weeks on end.  Yet, online, the same products sit despite being priced below retail.  On what planet does it make sense to waste $30 in gas and pay sales tax because you're too cheap to handle $6 shipping?

by: mcposty

Yea come to ebay and get the first 10 pages of Chinese fakes

Fill your cart with color..the same color of corporate crap that is being sold at amazon..cause you will not find anything unique anymore

by: Sierra

@maxmad, negative advertising is nasty stuff, but it works sometimes. How do you think we ended up with the current mess in Washington?????

by: booklover27

How hilarious can Ebay be.  They will never compete with Amazon.com because of the evil nature of their  company which has caused great pain to its sellers and angst to its buyers.  It is a lousy company that needs to go the way of their subsidiary Half.com which was once a great company with a promising future.  Anything these people at Ebay touch withers and dies.

by: donald

All I can say is I sold more on Amazon Prime day then on ebay and I had nothing on sale.

by: Bidonmine

I buy several items a month from Amazon... Could not find anything that was in a Prime Special, even when checking for common popular items.

by: IDKwhoIare

I missed Prime Day.  Did not hear about it until after it was over...seems like eBay is not the only one that needs to do ads.

by: ElevenPastEleven

     
I'd NEVER consider selling on a site like eBay, but continue to buy hundreds (if not thousands) of items from the site every year.

Despite it's annoyances, eBay still presents a much wider, more dynamic set of choices to shoppers.

Fortunately there are still quality sellers who stock the interesting or odd or niche items haven't all been run off by the career complainers.

Search is reliable only for being a mess, but circumventing the intent of algorithms isn't rocket science...Amazon search is equally irritating, only made worse with that predictable catalog..a colossal bore!

Ignoring the hamster wheels spinning "sales" and "savings" helps keep focus where it belongs,along with desire, mystery...