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Re: Listing on Amazon?
Mike, thank you for your reply. Is it because your sister site Vendio already has Amazon integration therefore Auctiva will no longer consider supporting it?
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Re: Ebay to ban custom templates?
I think the problems created by the New page and potentially not making any "commitments" with its operation may make this change inevitable. Buyer Experience and Security will come as the announced reasons in the New Year, e.g. another [hypothetical] "Grinch" Xmas is due to the Sellers' "flee market" look (vs Amazon et. al.) and we aren't going to allow that "look" to continue, and it helps close the security holes. Does that make sense given their pattern to date? I am having difficulty...
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Re: "Is eBay Back on Course?"
Please let me answer that for you: NO, EBAY IS NOT BACK ON COURSE! it is on a worse path than ever. you must be employed by ebay to spew such propaganda and lies! did i see you on spin city? as for the reduced insertion fees. along with the reduced fees, the final valuation fees have gone up by several times. costing the seller much more than the old fees. thus running the price of items to the buyer up. ebay says that they are doing these things to help the buyers. NOT TRUE! how can driving...
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Re: "Is eBay Back on Course?"
THAR, I have to agree with you on everything!!! I'm also a power seller with 100% positive feedback and 4.9+ DSR's. Sales are down, Profits do not exist anymore, and I'm so sick and tired of buyer abuse for uninsured items that get returned as "defective" and you can clearly see that the "defect" is user abuse and/or shipping damage and eBay will do nothing about the buyers abusive language in emails and on recorded telephone calls. With my losing the payment when things go through the...
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Re: "Wal-Mart Launches New Marketplace "
Seems like just another way to steal the market share away from places like eBay/Amazon and Overstock.
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Re: "eBay Redraws Rules for Sellers"
Hi, I am a UK eBayer and am too very disappointed to say the least at eBays increasing draconian policy changes and there increased over time fees. Mention has been made of 12% overall eBay and Pay Pal fees. Well I can confirm that on average my fees total about 20 - 22% of the total sale value whcih works out about double of what I was being charged when i joined some 5 years ago. Furthermore I have had a number of Listings pulled by eBay because of a breach of their Policy whereby they...
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Re: "Take Product Pics that Sell"
Ok, eBay boycott aside, and nevermind the fact I no longer shop on eBay because of their policies that despise the small time seller (and by small time, I mean anything less than 1/2 a million per month). So, since eBay is a non-factor for many sellers, that part of the article is irrelevant. However, since people can and do sell successfully on other sites like Onlineauction, Ioffer, etsy, Amazon, Bonanzle, or a host of other places, this is still great info. In the article it states "I...
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Re: "Amazon to Require the Lowest Prices"
That kind of price fixing by Amazon would be worthy of a challenge by sellers. Since when can a company require businesses to charge a fixed, or lowest amount in a particular channel? Isn't that part of the seller's competitive advantage ?
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Re: Turbo Lister to Auctiva Questions please. .
Dear Vickie, Thanks for posting your question here. I have read over the scenario you described here and I believe the best way to go about this would not even involve using our relatively new tool that can be used to import listings into Auctiva from Turbo Lister generated CSV files. Since you will only be reposting these listings that you list through Turbo Lister until they end, the easiest way to import those to your Saved Listings page so you can repost them through Auctiva with our...
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Re: Turbo Lister to Auctiva Questions please. .
Mike sorry have not responded. Your alternative does give more food for thought and sounds easier than way I proposed. Will sure try with a few and see how it goes. Does sound easier and I am looking for easiest most time efficient method. I have no problem learning something new as long as you all her here to walk me through it!! Also with alternative method do you still put in all of ship thing, return, etc., in turbo, or can I do that once on auctiva site?? One other Question... may or...
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Re: Auctiva Hosted Images Missing from Accounts/Listings 7/20/2008
Amazon, our storage provider, is having a service interruption that's causing problems serving some of your photos. Here are the updates from their service dashboard. Amazon S3 is the name for their file storage which we use for our image hosting: 9:05 AM PDT We are currently experiencing elevated error rates with S3. We are investigating. 9:26 AM PDT We're investigating an issue affecting requests. We'll continue to post updates here. 9:48 AM PDT Just wanted to provide an update that we are...
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Re: Thank You Auctiva Jeff!!
Hopefully Auctiva has some strong SLA's negotiated with Amazon that will give them some money back for this kind of downtime. Maybe Auctiva could negotiate with Ebay to relist all affected listings for free. It might ease the angst all the way around.
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Re: Auctiva Hosted Images Missing from Accounts/Listings 7/20/2008
Hi Community, Update - A number of customers have expressed concern over whether or not the images that cannot currently be seen in their accounts and listings will be visible once again when this issue has been resolved. Fortunately, the images that cannot be seen now due to this problem will be visible once again when Amazon gets this service interruption taken care of. I'll post again to this thread when additional information on this situation becomes available. -Mike
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Re: Thank You Auctiva Jeff!!
Progress is being made. If you go to the link Jeff provided in his announcement, then click on MORE where the RED marks are, there is a message posted at 2:36pm stated they are starting the multi-step procedure to get this back up and running. Communication to all of the US has been restored according to message posted at 2:19pm Thanks Jeff, for that important Amazon link.
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Re: Auctiva Hosted Images Missing from Accounts/Listings 7/20/2008
More updates from Amazon: 12:25 PM PDT We have restored communication between additional hosts and are continuing this work across the rest of the fleet. Thank you for your continued patience. 12:51 PM PDT The restored hosts are stable and we are moving forward in restoring communication between additional hosts. 1:17 PM PDT We continue to make incremental progress and communication between additional hosts has been restored. We are continuing with the plan to restore communication across...
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Re: Can we still list??
Yes if you relist the pictures will show when Amazon brings their servers back online. You can also list any items that had pictures in Auctiva before this started and those will have images as well. Basically if the images were already on our site before all this you can list those items and the pictures will return. I've updated the post in the News forum with the current status from Amazon. They've brought their European servers back online and are working on the US now.
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Re: Auctiva Hosted Images Missing from Accounts/Listings 7/20/2008
Good news from Amazon: 4:03 PM PDT We are in the process of restoring Amazon S3 US, and will shortly be bringing the web servers back online. We expect the service will be restored within 1 hour.
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Re: Auctiva Hosted Images Missing from Accounts/Listings 7/20/2008
Images were restored between 4:15pm and 5pm: 4:22 PM PDT US service has been partially restored. We continue to work to fully restore the service. 4:42 PM PDT We continue to restore US service. We expect that request processing will be fully restored within 15 minutes. 5:00 PM PDT Amazon S3 service has been restored and is returning to normal. We will continue to monitor closely. Amazon has been a valuable partner helping to serve images for Auctiva for almost 2 years now with a very high...
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Re: Auctiva Hosted Images Missing from Accounts/Listings 7/20/2008
Another company that stores images on Amazon, that I personally also use said things quite well. SmugMug and Auctiva are two of Amazon S3's larger users: http://smugmug.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/amazon-s3-outag...uses-smugmug-outage/
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Re: All Griefers Can Officially Apologize Here!
I just sat back and watched it all as I do understand things happen. However this has brought on a lot of questions. I'm curious how auctiva decided Amazon was a good place to back our pictures up to. Considering this is ebays competition it seems to open possible doors to fowl play. Im not saying it did and I am not saying it would but just the fact it could and the fact it happened today makes you open your eyes. As much as this hurt the sellers this also hurt ebay and possibly auctiva.
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Re: All Griefers Can Officially Apologize Here!
I hear what you are saying but ebay playing shenanigans on that level would be met with legal action by a few watchdog groups. I am confident that it would take only one more foul act by ebay to be met with a stack of monopolizing papers similar to the netscape/microsoft mess. Anyhoo, rock on we're back baby!
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Re: All Griefers Can Officially Apologize Here!
Amazon S3 is the storage contractor for a lot of sizable online operations, with a very high reliability record. Auctiva was not the only service affected - this outage also took out my photo backup service, SmugMug. Thus, I don't buy into any 'conspiracy theories' on this outage. It was JUST an outage, pure and simple - which will happen on occasion to ANY service. That is not to say, though, that I won't be waiting to read the findings of Amazon's investigation, with more than a little...
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Re: This may help most in the future if auctiva repeats problem
That's one possible solution. But there is also the danger of putting too many distractions into a listing, and thus losing customers. It's a decision that everyone must make for themselves. In my case, I use Auctiva for listing, and have a SmugMug account for backup - which didn't help me today, as SmugMug was also knocked out by the problems at Amazon S3. So it was simply a BAD day, all around. Like a friend of mine says, "Some days it just ain't worth gnawing through the leather straps".
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Re: Gallery pics
I'm having the same problem, but only with the most recently listed items of mine (ie, items I've listed since the Amazon problem). Is Auctiva aware of this and, if you're watching fellas, can you suggest a remedy?
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Re: Gallery pics
what is going, half mine are still missing, a few are even showing up as a broken link pic in ebay gallery ? this is abso madness, I thought they were sorting this out with amazon ? well it looks like I will have to do it myself manually. am not happy with this at all.
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Re: MISSING GALLERY COME ON AUCTIVA SORT IT OUT
Hi Community, Thanks for helping to bring this issue to our attention. Our image hosting provider, Amazon S3, has a service interruption yesterday that caused problems with our image hosting until about 5 PM PT. Therefore, I suspect eBay must have tried to generate the gallery images for your auctions while that issue was ongoing and was understandably unable to do so. I don't believe they automatically retry creating the gallery image from the URL we send to them if it fails the first time.
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Re: Gallery pics
Hi Community, Thanks for helping to bring this issue to our attention. Our image hosting provider, Amazon S3, has a service interruption yesterday that caused problems with our image hosting until about 5 PM PT. Therefore, I suspect eBay must have tried to generate the gallery images for your auctions while that issue was ongoing and was understandably unable to do so. I don't believe they automatically retry creating the gallery image from the URL we send to them if it fails the first time.
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Re: All Griefers Can Officially Apologize Here!
As I said I made no claim there was any intention to disrupt ebay listings. It is only that considering Amazon & Ebay are the biggest that Amazon is hosting such a huge amount of pictures that are being used for ebay. Its amazing that they even agreed to this. I didnt realize just how many auctiva users there was until yesterday when it went down. Throw in the fact that ebay rules read that listings can not be ended within 12 hours of end of listing it was a mess for big item sellers.
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Re: Gallery pics
NOTE: If the listing you are trying to add a gallery image to has already received bids or is ending in less than 12 hours, unfortuantely, eBay will likely not allow you to make this change. Eureka! Thank you Mike, there's the answer to the greyed out "Add a picture". I'll just have to wait to see if eBay will make an effort to sort out the problem before my listings end.
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Re: Gallery pics
If anyone is still having problems with missing gallery images after the Amazon glitch I've just received a fix from eBay. It is as follows; 1. Go to the auction page of your listed item 2. Click Site Map (top right hand corner) 3. Select 'Change Your items Gallery Image' 4. Enter the item number....and then simply follow the ensuing instructions. All done in a moment.
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Re: All Griefers Can Officially Apologize Here!
Amazon S3's Preliminary Report: 7/21 7:19 PM PDT We wanted to share a brief note about what we observed during yesterday's event and where we are at this stage. As a distributed system, the different components of Amazon S3 need to be aware of the state of each other. For example, this awareness makes it possible for the system to decide to which redundant physical storage server to route a request. In order to share this state information across the system, we use a gossip protocol.
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Re: "Product Sourcing the Drop Shipping Way"
Doba is worthless. It's not a bad idea and the site is nicely organized, but you just can't compete. As a test, I picked 25 items at random from their catalog and searched Froogle, I could not a single item where they had the lowest price. Mind you, their prices are usually below Amazon, but not low enough to compete on eBay. -Jared
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Re: scheduling "failure"
Check that you are not in violation of any eBay policies in the listing. Simply saying things like 'I have similar items available' can trigger the eBay robot on the words 'items' and 'avalable' in the same sentence. Also there might just be a problem with 'river' as 'The Big River ' is eBay seller cant for 'Amazon', and ebay obvioulsy do not like listings which refer to the competition!
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Re: Images not showing. Again!...
I thought of that. I checked download rates from London, Maidenhead, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, all checked-out at 4Mb which is normal for my local node. In fact the London and San Francisco links are usually slower, so no problems there. No browser issues either. I checked the Amazon S3 logs too, they showed no errors, so it looks like a problem with an intermediate routing node 'near' the S3 servers, possibly just sheer bandwidth oveload. It seems to have cleared up now, but...
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Re: "Sweeping Changes Mimic Amazon"
I just recently began selling on Amazon, and I find the "amazonification" term sort of humorous. Because on Amazon, I've also seen reference to "Ebayerism" over there. On an eBay forum today, I saw someone comment that eBay was not viable as a media venue, with these changes, but I don't see where they got that idea. As a media seller, and also a media buyer, I believe that the changes will achieve what they hope to achieve. More inventory listed... I sell books on numerous venues, however,...
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Re: "Sweeping Changes Mimic Amazon"
Thats all fine for the book seller but what about those who now are not allowed to accept checks or money orders, how can ebay do this, that is a violation of sellers rights. I think ebay will lose alot of customers and revenue from doing this and amazon will continue to see an increase in new sales of new and used items from new sellers. And the DSR issue is just crazy, I've seen power sellers who have many negative feedbacks but continue to get discounts for sales when the average joe-has...
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Re: "Sweeping Changes Mimic Amazon"
None of it makes sense. What is good for the few is worse for the many. I sell glassware and collectibles, there is no place on Amazon for me. So...I am going to try other auctions to see who is better. Seems many others at ebay are talking about the same thing..leaving.
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Re: "Sweeping Changes Mimic Amazon"
For your selling category, it would seem that eBay is still your best venue. For people seeking these items, eBay is where they look. You are not competing with a bunch of mega seller retailers. How are you being harmed by these changes? Nothing has changed with the auction format. While I do not believe the "no paper money" mandate is beneficial to buyers or sellers, it doesn't sound like there is much we can do about it. In my opinion, its a bit arrogant for eBay, (or us) to tell a buyer...
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Re: Power Sellers Unite dot com
Thanks, guys. Yes, I did reregister yesterday. Seemed my only option. Didn't post on discussion boards but supposively I added my Amazon site? Although I kept looking to find it added yesterday and never saw it pop up. ???? Maybe PSU doesn't like me.....
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Re: EBAY'S NEW MAXIMUM SHIPPING POLICY
There are likely many motivators aside from increased FVF fees for these new policies. There is speculation that the idea is to move to a business model like Amazon, where the host venue dictates the allowed shipping fees charged in all categories. At a internet sellers meeting last night, a colleague stated that Griff himself suggested that sellers who are legitmately using the shipping calculator to charge actual shipping by weight would do well to post the actual poundage in your listing...
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Re: What Works Best – Fixed Price, or Auctions, or both?
I suppose you all have already noted eBay’s brilliant performance for February commented on at http://ebaystrategies.blogs.co...1.html#disqus_thread Amazon: 74.5% growth Y/Y. e-commerce overall: 11.3% growth Y/Y. eBay: 2.5% growth Y/Y. Keep up the good work Donahoe; and don’t forget to drop in to Amazon and pick up your latest bonus cheque from Mr Bezos. Enron / eBay / PayPal / Donahoe: Dead Men Walking.
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Re: Feedback summary emails on hotmail
It is things like large envelopes, letters, etc, that I use stamps.com or the integrated --------- + stamps.com interface. I ship small parts and often in plain letter sized envelopes. Without being able to ship for cheap cheap cheap, these parts simply wouldn't sell. Watch repair people are SO cheap! I also sell on Amazon and other places. PayPal isn't my only payment source. I forgot the exact example case I sent to support, but I recall almost immediately running into problems. One thing...