Considering all that is happening with ebay right now, does Auctiva have any plans to become a stand alone ecommerce site?

I thought I already read somewhere that no, they won't.

But we can hope can't we?

Hi if they ever do I expect they will have to start charging fees even if just FVF, it's an enormous step moving from providing tools to being a complete online auction house.

I doubt eBay would still allow them access for listing uploads etc if they became competition.

No, I didn't expect it to be free, but it would be really nice to have an ecommerce site that is run by professionals.

It is my impression in contacting other online auction sites in the UK that the companies which are very much smaller than feebay give good personal service like Auctiva.

A well intentioned seller on feebay starts with personalised communications and feedback. But as sales take off they are forced to move back with automated messages and feedback to get the items into the post quickly.

Sooner or later staff are employed and the originator gradually moves further from the customer contact and when big enough the personal touch dissapears altogether as numerous employees are just there for a salary, not bothered whether they are working for a, b, or c.

But back to feebay as it is now, we (the users) wish for a more professional service, but too late the shareholders take a tight grip on development and services via the accountants and all end users (buyers and sellers) suffer. Feebay community court being the latest victim while they tweak store visibilty.

The only difference between small non-professional and large non-professional is that the former are unlikely to become the latter in most fields.

That's my cynical soapbox statement for today...

In consideration of what has happened on ebay today, maybe this thread needs to be bumped up?

Thanks for reminding me and there was another thread here where CEO Jeff hinted at this recently too, I queried it but did not get a reply.

Shall David take on Goliath.
Will Gallant Jeff slay the FeeBay Dragon?
Stay tuned Auctiva faithful and find the answers to these and more questions!
Come on Jeff surely a mass exodus of Auctiva users would put a dent in FeeBays bloated greedy income!

We do plan on having stand-alone Auctiva Stores with shopping carts etc. for you to make off-eBay sales.

Looks like being your lucky year, would it include support for the UK ?

YIPPEE

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Originally posted by Auctiva David:
We do plan on having stand-alone Auctiva Stores with shopping carts etc. for you to make off-eBay sales.

That is great! How soon? Soon I hope.

Hi Auctiva David,
Could we have a little more info on this please? Sounds like something everyone would be interested in

I would be very interested because I am not real computer savvy. Everytime I try something new on the computer, it takes me forever to figure things out. I believe Auctiva would provide a lot of support in helping me get my independent store out on the web. I have wanted to have a real store, that is not on ebay, but have lacked the knowlege and time to get it going. I have a specialty store on ebay, which sells to a certain niche. I have been fairly successful, but hate being dependent on ebay.

Unfortunately I don't have much more on this right now.. we're still ironing out the details, and I wouldn't want to say anything that would later turn out to be incorrect

I would imagine though that the feature will support all the same countries the rest of our site supports, which includes the UK.

We are hoping to have some basic store functionality in our eBay Live release in June. Of course we also planned on having our inventory feature in November 2005 and you see how well that went. I would anticipate at least some fees with this. We're not going to let people dump a million pieces of lint, fuzz, or trash into our database as there is a pretty big cost associated with even storing an item that will never or rarely sell. At a minimum I'd say something like 1 penny per month per item would be enough to keep the stinky items out.

It does appear we'll have Inventory in our March release though. Oh I suppose I should qualify that as March 2008, lol.

Fair fees, and fair play and you will have plenty of customers

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We're not going to let people dump a million pieces of lint, fuzz, or trash into our database...

ROFLMAO !!! -- sorry! That one just hit my funny-bone real hard!
...and I'm still LOL as I type these words. I personally can't even imagine the hassles of try'n to keep an orderly DB of such as I imagine would be required!

I'm all for keeping the stinky stuff out. I tried listing on that jay bird site for awhile, there was so much stinky stuff that it was beginning to make my stuff smell bad too, so I canceled it. Do what you have to do.