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An auction is a simple thing. You display a product, take bids on it, and sell it to the highest bidder. eBay used to be that simple – until management began to "simplify" it for those too dumb to grasp the concept. A successful auction house can not exist without two elements: Sellers and Buyers. Eliminate either of the two and an auction house, rather on the Internet or brick and mortar can not stand; which is what happened to Yahoo, Amazon and all of eBay’s other would be competitors. eBay became a juggernaut, but not an unstoppable one. Since beginning on eBay in 1998, I have trained a half dozen people to sell their stuff on eBay. Today, none are still active due to dissatisfaction with their eBay experience. -*MORT*-
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Aside from 80% of your post educating us all on the basic fundamentals of the auction process. I submit the following. Either you are a bad instructor, or the 6 sellers are lousy at selling, or a combination of both. I’ve made a killing on eBay each and every year since 1998. I adapt to the changes, roll with the punches and change my strategy when needed. You know, instead of everyone pointing the finger at eBay, maybe they should look in the mirror and look at the customers they deal with and the products the sell and the shipping methods they use. eBay just provides the house. It’s up to you to keep it clean. Projecting poor marketing qualities upon anything other than one’s self is nothing but a cop-out and denial.
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You know, instead of everyone pointing the finger at eBay, maybe they should look in the mirror
You know, instead of listening to company stooges like you, maybe people should think for themselves. Ed
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Aside from 80% of your post educating us all on the basic fundamentals of the auction process. I submit the following. Either you are a bad instructor, or the 6 sellers are lousy at selling, or a combination of both. I’ve made a killing on eBay each and every year since 1998. I adapt to the changes, roll with the punches and change my strategy when needed. You know, instead of everyone pointing the finger at eBay, maybe they should look in the mirror and look at the customers they deal with and the products the sell and the shipping methods they use. eBay just provides the house. It’s up to you to keep it clean. Projecting poor marketing qualities upon anything other than one’s self is nothing but a cop-out and denial.
Well spoken, but still those who haven’t been smart enough to figure this out for themselves will condemn you for throwing it in their face. And then they will label you a loyal brainwashed servant of our dear lord, eBay. ;o) jim menning
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An auction is a simple thing. You display a product, take bids on it, and sell it to the highest bidder. eBay used to be that simple – until management began to "simplify" it for those too dumb to grasp the concept. A successful auction house can not exist without two elements: Sellers and Buyers. Eliminate either of the two and an auction house, rather on the Internet or brick and mortar can not stand; which is what happened to Yahoo, Amazon and all of eBay’s other would be competitors. eBay became a juggernaut, but not an unstoppable one. Since beginning on eBay in 1998, I have trained a half dozen people to sell their stuff on eBay. Today, none are still active due to dissatisfaction with their eBay experience.
If anyone can not easily handle Ebay then they are clearly too stupid to own a computer never mind use the internet. Ebay is a better place without your idiot friends by the looks of it. — I.P.Freely
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As I stated before lots of corps would kill to have Ebays sucess at management
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Aside from 80% of your post educating us all on the basic fundamentals of the auction process. I submit the following. Either you are a bad instructor, or the 6 sellers are lousy at selling, or a combination of both. I’ve made a killing on eBay each and every year since 1998. I adapt to the changes, roll with the punches and change my strategy when needed. You know, instead of everyone pointing the finger at eBay, maybe they should look in the mirror and look at the customers they deal with and the products the sell and the shipping methods they use. eBay just provides the house. It’s up to you to keep it clean. Projecting poor marketing qualities upon anything other than one’s self is nothing but a cop-out and denial. Well spoken, but still those who haven’t been smart enough to figure this out for themselves will condemn you for throwing it in their face. And then they will label you a loyal brainwashed servant of our dear lord, eBay. ;o) jim menning
Dont get me wrong. I fully agree, When shit happens, learn how to adapt and grow. If something doesnt work, then try something else and so on and on. Your only a success if you want to be. On the other hand, as a person that does know how to do this, I do have that right to bitch about rates going up. I pay a monthly phone bill, if it goes up, I have the right to bitch, and so on. Its life, we adapt, but who says we have to be happy about it. Anyone who says this or any other rate does not affect them needs to share the weed their smoking so we all can feel secure in the in the fact that we have so much money that we dont count pennies. People, companies, countries get Somewhere because each penny does count in the end.
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when ebay fees are lower, I list more, and I sell more. If only ebay lowered listing fees for higher feedbackers, they could still charge the ludicrous high prices for newbies, and power sellers, who deserve high fees, but in the middle, you have what will keep ebay going…
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when ebay fees are lower, I list more, and I sell more. If only ebay lowered listing fees for higher feedbackers, they could still charge the ludicrous high prices for newbies, and power sellers, who deserve high fees, but in the middle, you have what will keep ebay going…
The newbies would then, of course, neg the powersellers out of spite. — Many thanks, Don Lancaster Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 Please visit my GURU’s LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com
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"Don Lancaster" … The newbies would then, of course, neg the powersellers out of spite.
You mean they wouldn’t realise the powersellers deserved it? Don’t be so patronizing, Don: Of course they’d realise.
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