Posted by Auctiva Jeff on the PAID SITE. Boy, he sure is telling them a bunch of hooey! We AREN'T HAPPY AT ALL. And WE DO WISH WE COULD LIST OFF-LINE!
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Posted October 22, 2006 04:45 PM Hide Post
We list upwards of 50x more on our new free service as our old one.
As long as the current group of loyal Auctiva Poster users stick I'll keep supporting it and updating it. It makes enough now to do that. Sales have been holding steady so it's looking to stick around. Unfortunately once eBay put out Turbo Lister our desktop software took a nose dive. People are willing to pay eBay the 10 cents for templates, 10 cents for scheduling, and 25-50 cents per listing for images. And eBay is able to market to sellers 1000x better than we can so they suck up the user base of sellers that want to use desktop software.
I believe desktop software is the way to go, but honestly it's 25x harder to get customers to use it than it is our web based lister.
If our web lister grows big enough we may someday port Auctiva Poster and Mr. Poster to work with the new free site and give our web users a chance to use the downloadable software too. So far though people using the web lister haven't been asking for that though. DSL is cheap, fast, and most people can get it now so using the web browser works almost as well and it's easier than figuring out software.