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Okay hands up who has had enough of ebay monopolising the online auction market? Wow! that's quite a few hands! The truth is ebay in the last few months has really started to show it's nasty side. Most sellers now are really struggling to make a profit with their fees having recently just gone up - again. Many small business relied on ebay to sell their wares to a mass market, but now ebay & paypal have stuck the knife in & the fees are just too high to sustain a business let alone a profit! Ebid however has noted all the changes at ebay & have changed their terms accordingly. With so many sellers now leaving ebay in search of newer pastures, Ebid has seen a huge surge in new registered customers & rightly so. For starters they have zero listing fees & zero final value fees. This is where ebay has failed is customers by steadily incresing these fees over the years. Now it has got to a point where the sheer size of the combined fees of listing, final value & paypal fees overshadow any profit. Payment processors that ebid use are: Google Checkout (highly recommended) PPPay, & Paypal (let's not go there -right?!) If you want to start making a profit agian & have no fees ever - FOR LIFE! - I would ditch ebay today for good & switch to the rapidly growing fee-free world of Ebid.
Ebid News Update 2nd june 2008:
"After the announcement of Bidville closing down it's operations, Ebid is glad to offer their users a new home in our great value auction environment.
As part of our offer Bidville users can transfer their feedback AND obtain a free Seller+ lifetime membership with Ebid, saving themselves $49.99. A Seller+ membership gives you auctions with Zero Listing Fees and Zero final value fees for life. Just email to support@ebid.net your Bidville username, a screen shot of your feedback WITHIN the My Bidville area and let us know your new eBid username. Your account will be upgraded to Seller+ and your feedback added to your account.
This is a limited time offer and will not include any other current offers related to Seller+ Lifetime memberships."
Wow! things are just getting better & better at Ebid! - let's hope they can one-day challenge Ebay & stop the monoploization of the online auction indutsry & it's associated payment processor.
10 comments:
Theres a big list of ebay alternatives at: www.squidoo.com/ebay-alternatives
Yes, ebid is a great alternatives to ebay, and I use gear-vault classifieds for music instruments and equipment. Best music classifieds and auction on the net... and probably the only free one.
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the only problem and why I still use only ebay is that everyone knows it and as a seller you got the most impressions on your articles.
Yes that is true, but the insider word is that in the very near future ebay will no longer accept private sellers as they only want to cocentrate on business sellers (this is insider-knowledge)This will open the flood gates for other auction sites such as ebid, who deserve a slice of the action. Ebay has monopoloised the e-auction market for too long.
I've been reading and hearing about the stuff you mention here. The web will always fill a void. If ebay becomes too expensive for the regular guy (or gal) someone else will be there to pick up the slack.
Another very good eBay alternative site is Random Plaza. http://randomplaza.com
Nice blog post, interesting work...
I’ve started to use classified ads as they are a lot cheaper than ebays over the top charges. It’s also easier to sell in more than one place without having to explain yourself to ebay why you’re ending your auction early!
Ebid is not the only alternative to ebay there is also http://www.mainstreetfair.com they donate money to schools of the sellers choice, the fees are low and it is easy to use.
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