Any chance you'll consider opening up for other auction sites such as wensy.com and etsy.com
Thank you
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No. I think if a site were to approach 10% of eBay's size I'd consider it. So far I don't think anyone has even approached 1% of their size and that includes: Amazon, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Overstock who all tried and failed.
It would cost me time and money to make our site work with those. There are no buyers there, and no sellers. I'd be throwing away money. I'll make more money and get more customers using that same amount of time improving our service for eBay where all the buyers and sellers are. As would most sellers. If you quit eBay and move there another seller will just pick up your place in a heart beat.
We supported Yahoo and Amazon 8 years ago but nobody used it. It cost me time and money and may have even led to competitors inching ahead back then. Had I kept my focus on eBay back then I would have done much much better. I don't need to learn that lesson twice. If the sellers here leave to do their own thing 2 more new sellers will step in to replace them. And hopefully they'll use Auctiva. I can't say the same for all these rinky dink sites that pop up every time some eBay sellers get upset. And remember not all sellers are upset over these changes. We only hear from the ones that are.
I say these things partly because I think they are true, and partly to provoke. If a bunch people go prove me wrong and some other site pops up that's great and when it gets big enough we'll be there. Right now though I've seen like 10 different sites mentioned. Pick one and everyone go there. Sellers can't even pick 1 place to move to. So even the ones that quit are going to be 100th as effective as if 10 out of 10 went and sold on the same site. The power of the 10 together is much greater than the same 10 spread to 10 different sites.
It would cost me time and money to make our site work with those. There are no buyers there, and no sellers. I'd be throwing away money. I'll make more money and get more customers using that same amount of time improving our service for eBay where all the buyers and sellers are. As would most sellers. If you quit eBay and move there another seller will just pick up your place in a heart beat.
We supported Yahoo and Amazon 8 years ago but nobody used it. It cost me time and money and may have even led to competitors inching ahead back then. Had I kept my focus on eBay back then I would have done much much better. I don't need to learn that lesson twice. If the sellers here leave to do their own thing 2 more new sellers will step in to replace them. And hopefully they'll use Auctiva. I can't say the same for all these rinky dink sites that pop up every time some eBay sellers get upset. And remember not all sellers are upset over these changes. We only hear from the ones that are.
I say these things partly because I think they are true, and partly to provoke. If a bunch people go prove me wrong and some other site pops up that's great and when it gets big enough we'll be there. Right now though I've seen like 10 different sites mentioned. Pick one and everyone go there. Sellers can't even pick 1 place to move to. So even the ones that quit are going to be 100th as effective as if 10 out of 10 went and sold on the same site. The power of the 10 together is much greater than the same 10 spread to 10 different sites.
quote:If the sellers here leave to do their own thing 2 more new sellers will step in to replace them
Come on, this may be the case if we were chasing a limited number of shopfronts in a prestige mall, greedbay has no such limits.
quote:I'll make more money and get more customers using that same amount of time improving our service for eBay where all the buyers and sellers are.
So why do you think it is worth your while setting up a facility for off-greebay selling directly from Auctiva ?
It's a more often requested feature and I think it's more probable a seller will make a repeat sale to a customer on their own site versus these small auction site alternatives. I still question it's value because few sellers are effective at driving their own traffic. We'll dip our toes in the water with this and see how it goes. I might be surprised with how well they work and we'd then put a lot more effort into enhancing the features. We'll start with a quick and easy solution to start to test things out. And this is still more of a wish list type of feature so it's given a lower priority than other projects and the release date may slip in favor of other eBay features.quote:So why do you think it is worth your while setting up a facility for off-greebay selling directly from Auctiva ?
quote:I still question it's value because few sellers are effective at driving their own traffic
This I think is where many including myself could do with help via Auctiva if possible, after all greedbay market their site and you market this one so presumably you would also advertise your new product for mutual (yours & ours) benefit.
However the way things are going I would rather start to pay for a hosted site and paying some advertising fees to drive traffic than continue to provide more hard earned cash fodder to an increasing greedy monopolistic venue.
If the sellers in the USA think they are having a hard time it is far worse here regarding fees as usual before and after the present proposals especially with the 1 cent USD = 1 penny GBP, gallery cost ...
What if you just charged a bit of a membership fee here - wouldn't that make it worthwhile for you?
quote:Right now though I've seen like 10 different sites mentioned. Pick one and everyone go there. Sellers can't even pick 1 place to move to. So even the ones that quit are going to be 100th as effective as if 10 out of 10 went and sold on the same site. The power of the 10 together is much greater than the same 10 spread to 10 different sites.
Sooo....why don't you pick 1 place? One site?
I'll bet there would be a mass following...
ssandee
I'd love to see one of these alternate auction sites actively COURT a valuable resource like Auctiva. That alone would get my attention as a seller, that the other site has a working knowledge of what would be important to ME as a seller.
I understand that integrating the format is time and resource expensive for Auctiva...but if another auction site REALLY wants to compete with ebay, they'd be hanging like a VULTURE trying to figure out how to get us sellers to migrate en-masse...hint to them: make YOUR auction site directly compatible for Auctiva! Then, with the click of a button (conceivably) we sellers could CHOOSE which site our just-loaded-auction would land upon.
I only just wish I knew who and where, to suggest this. I personally would LOVE the final outcome of that wonderful world of CHOICE.
I understand that integrating the format is time and resource expensive for Auctiva...but if another auction site REALLY wants to compete with ebay, they'd be hanging like a VULTURE trying to figure out how to get us sellers to migrate en-masse...hint to them: make YOUR auction site directly compatible for Auctiva! Then, with the click of a button (conceivably) we sellers could CHOOSE which site our just-loaded-auction would land upon.
I only just wish I knew who and where, to suggest this. I personally would LOVE the final outcome of that wonderful world of CHOICE.