Jeff

As you are probably now aware, quote from AuctionBytes today 29th Jan 2008 :-

"eBay will announce today that beginning in May, sellers will no longer be able to leave negative or neutral Feedback for buyers."

And the comments from sellers are already flowing in stronge terms, please don't be dragged under with them, please bring in support for other sites like the UK's Tazbar and SpecialistAuctions.

Thanks for the info Choo..and I'll add this if I may:

http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y08/m01/i29/s05

http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y08/m01/i29/s05

YAY! puh-leeeease do support some other auction venue!! i don't even care which one anymore. i'm tired of ebay but still want to sell... and i LOVE auctiva. so let's find a new place to sell, shall we??

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and I'll add this if I may

Good move Ms M

yes!!!!!!!!!!! please help the newbie. where do we go??

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yes!!!!!!!!!!! please help the newbie. where do we go??

I found this site to be rather useful for stats and links :-

http://www.powersellersunite.com/auctionsitewatch.php

Get it quick 'cause it may get pulled

THANK YOU!!! will check it out for sure.

Thanks for the link Choo..My problem is that there is no market for my items on other sites...I'm pretty much stuck with ebay, where there is a huge market, if only for another year.

I am another seller that would like to see auctiva support another avenue for sellers to use """besides""" ebay. The fact that sellers will only be able to leave positive feedback for buyers destroys the """two way street"""" concept. While there are some GREAT new ideas, (lower insertion rates, free gallery and multiple feedback) has everybody realized that the final value fees are changing also and they ARE NOT GOING DOWN.
auctiva is a GREAT way to list your items and pictures. I have referred several people to this site because it is user friendly. My friends and I are not power sellers so the listings do not pay the rent. I started doing this because it was FUN.....IT'S NOT FUN ANYMORE.

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free gallery

We don't get that in the UK

Yes Ms M greedbay have a strangle hold on some markets for sure at least I can move some stuff now but on some sites you cannot afford to auction an item if it only gets one bid where on greedabay there can be a tustle which pushes the price up.

Certainly items I would put out fixed price can be sold elsewhere with much less overhead even if it takes longer.

Many of the Powersellers (over 200 now) have gone to Wagglepop.com and are using revolutionmoneyexchange.com rather than Paypal.

I am hoping Auctiva will support Wagglepop REALLY SOON! (Hint, Hint!)

ecrater.com is 100% free as well -

I would LOVE to use auctiva to list auctions on www.OnlineAuction.com. Please please please help us, since Ebay dumped us! We are the guys you need, bigger sellers don't use Auctiva, they have their own hosting. I just figured how to use auctiva insurance and now it appears that it is no longer useful as I do not sell on ebay anymore

Thank you Auctive, you been VERY helpful, I appreciate it!

Please do start supporting BidVille, OnlineAuctions or Ebid or all three. Ebay no longer desires our "flea-market" business, so please help us to send it elsewhere.

I love using Auctiva, but may have to do something else when I start listing on OnlineAuctions & Bidville in the next couple days.

I'm moving to iOffer.com Feb 20th. They transfer your ratings over. No one else does. Auctiva is letting buyers choose Canada Post Light USA when it isn't an option for US mailing. This is costing me shipping fees.

I agree. I've already opened an account on eCrater and created a store there. I opened an account at onlineauction.com and am doing one soon at eBid.net.

I'll be closing my eBay store soon after the "eBay strike" if they (eBay) don't reverse some of their policy changes. I doubt I'll list on eBay again after all this is over.

Cute little feepay cartoon from ioffer herehttp://www.ioffer.com/feepay
I already had an account with ioffer and just imported my ebay ratings and listings with Mr. Grabber; I registered with ola.com, ecrater, bidville, and will look around for more. There's google checkout to give paypal a run for its money. I hope auctiva starts playing ball with the little guys, too. There's always amazon for the barcoded items if you don't mind the high commissions.

Auctiva i have enjoyed your service for over a year.. I would just love to see you become a selling venue..

but if taking on other site would be better.

wagglepop.com
plunderhere.com
and ecrater.com are where i will be selling

and come may i may be gone from ebay for good too.

The problem with those sites is they give you zero buyer traffic. eBay can change what they do and treat sellers how they do because they bring you buyers. It's pretty much as simple as. that.

That ioffer cartoon has got to be close to 3 years old now. What that tells me is that it means nothing. They are a failure. eBay brings sellers buyers and ioffer really is a nothing. They are zeros. Losers. Time wasters.

As for the eBay stike mentioned by Mouser it was so pathetic that we actually listed more items in the past week during this so called boycot than we have ever done. The boycot was a failure. It meant nothing and achieved nothing.

While many may loathe eBay they remain the best place to sell and the best value for the fees they charged for the traffic they bring. Believe me I'd like to see alternatives as much as anyone else but right now nothing compares. To not list there you are only hurting your own sales and not them.

Nothing ever will compare if we sit around and say "Oh, they're the only ones with the traffic". People left last time they raised fees and became successful on other sites and their own websites. More people are leaving this time - with or without the traffic. Eventually the buyers will come to where the sellers are. And sellers of collectibles and unusual items are not going to be on ebay - they are running them off.

Wow, I must have been in a bad mood last night. That was harsh.

If people keep moving all over the place and not the same place eBay has nothing to worry about.

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best value for the fees they charged for the traffic they bring.

Fact of life - fees are proportional to STR.

Ultimately by moving to a few prestige big boys and discarding all the fleas the giants will start calling the shots as they will have more weight than the shareholders.

When greedbay decides it no longer wants anything to do with small sellers and in particular selling second hand goods, antique or otherwise the other sites will no longer have greedbay as competition.

Then another site will grow into its' place, I wonder who, and when ?

Well I sold my first item on OnlineAuction.com. I have accounts at iOffer.com, eBid.net (US), eCrater store, another web store at CityMax.com with my own domain, and so on.

Staying with eBay is letting them win. They'll just keep bullying us with ridiculous rule changes and fees. As corny as it sounds, "If you build it, they will come". So I've put my eggs in different baskets, and doing what I can to drive my traffic to those places.

In the mean time, back on subject; Since Auctiva has done so well with their listing creator/editor, why can't they make one that'll work for all these other places, one with basic HTML and WYSIWYG views? Just take OUT all the eBay reference, and leave openings for whatever venue's links that we put in manually?

I mean, we can almost use Auctiva now that way, simply by changing up the texts in my "Details", and NOT including the built in store links to eBay, but replacing them with HTML links to whatever venue store I have.

A very cool thing would be the ability to change my Auctiva domain to reflect a different site, or allow the uploading of .csv store items, and NOT link to eBay. I just renewed my domain here in January, prior to all the hoopla. As it stands, I have nothing listed on eBay, and therefore nothing in my Auctiva domain site.