I signed up for a web address from here. Bargain if you ask me. And now I have an auctiva shop with own domain, I was thinking about dropping the ebay one. Has anybody else done this?
Some thoughts please folks
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Yes, for similar thoughts on another thread see ebay thread on :-
https://community.auctiva.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/628609941/m/2781025672
https://community.auctiva.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/628609941/m/2781025672
Later this year we'll have a really nice store. Hopefully before the Christmas selling season.
Our next release in April will include inventory which will be useful when stores arrive because you'll be able to sell both on eBay and your own store.
Our next release in April will include inventory which will be useful when stores arrive because you'll be able to sell both on eBay and your own store.
Some good news for 2008 at last
quote:Originally posted by Auctiva Jeff:
Later this year we'll have a really nice store. Hopefully before the Christmas selling season.
Our next release in April will include inventory which will be useful when stores arrive because you'll be able to sell both on eBay and your own store.
Thats fantastic news, I assume it will work with the site I bought of you guys.
Thanks for the link ChooChooGuy, thats my next stop
having jst read the other thread that was kindly posted I am off to greedbay to close my shop and just use the one I have here.
First time anybody on any of the forums I am on actually helped me out. Cheers Guys
First time anybody on any of the forums I am on actually helped me out. Cheers Guys
quote:First time anybody on any of the forums I am on actually helped me out.
When it comes to GreedBay related it's the only one I can be bothered with when asking for help myself or assisting others where I can.
The GreedBay boards are so full of belittling know-it-alls it is sickening.
The Auctiva toolset and the community are excellent and with the additional optimism of their own e-commerce operation in the offing it is set to get even better
Hi - I need some clarification about this idea please.
ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THIS SITUATION-
- You have some things for sale on Ebay.
- You have a load of things for sale on auctiva.
- All the stuff you have for sale scrolls in the in the gallery on your ebay sales.
- The person clicks on your gallery to see all of your things.
- They select an item that is listed in your auctiva store but not on your ebay store (I don't even know if you can do this...)
- You don't pay ebay for the sales, just paypal for the price to pay for the sales.
OR THIS SITUATION
- You have all of your stuff on ebay
- The scrolling gallery just showcases all of it so you don't need a store link
- The person clicks on your scrolling gallery to get to your store.
- All of the stuff in your auctiva store is also listed in ebay as buy-it-nows or auctions
- They buy stuff from your store but you still need to pay Ebay (as well as paypal)
Here's another question:
If you have a bunch of stuff that sits (books are a good example) in the Ebay store you only pay .03 per item and it can sit there for 30 days. But if you have to keep listing all of that stuff as a buy it now or auction you get killed on auction fees. So how does the auctiva store help with this?
Obviously I'm a newbie but I can see quickly that Ebay is eating my lunch in fees.
Thanks
ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THIS SITUATION-
- You have some things for sale on Ebay.
- You have a load of things for sale on auctiva.
- All the stuff you have for sale scrolls in the in the gallery on your ebay sales.
- The person clicks on your gallery to see all of your things.
- They select an item that is listed in your auctiva store but not on your ebay store (I don't even know if you can do this...)
- You don't pay ebay for the sales, just paypal for the price to pay for the sales.
OR THIS SITUATION
- You have all of your stuff on ebay
- The scrolling gallery just showcases all of it so you don't need a store link
- The person clicks on your scrolling gallery to get to your store.
- All of the stuff in your auctiva store is also listed in ebay as buy-it-nows or auctions
- They buy stuff from your store but you still need to pay Ebay (as well as paypal)
Here's another question:
If you have a bunch of stuff that sits (books are a good example) in the Ebay store you only pay .03 per item and it can sit there for 30 days. But if you have to keep listing all of that stuff as a buy it now or auction you get killed on auction fees. So how does the auctiva store help with this?
Obviously I'm a newbie but I can see quickly that Ebay is eating my lunch in fees.
Thanks
Maybe it's just me, (cuz it IS late) but I don't really get what you're asking??
Ebay is the selling venue...Auctiva is just the listing service (at least for right now). Of course you are always going to have to pay Ebay/Paypal fees no matter what, listing is not free.
You can have ebay without Auctiva, but you can't have Auctiva without ebay. Make sense?
As for your last paragraph, I don't have an ebay store so no opinion
but I don't really get what you're asking??Ebay is the selling venue...Auctiva is just the listing service (at least for right now). Of course you are always going to have to pay Ebay/Paypal fees no matter what, listing is not free.
You can have ebay without Auctiva, but you can't have Auctiva without ebay. Make sense?
As for your last paragraph, I don't have an ebay store so no opinion
You can have an ebay store and list items for pennies and 30 days. But they wont show up on any of the ebay searches. Plus you have to factor in the £6pm for the pleasure of having a store.
Anything you list on your auctiva will show up on ebay, but the auctiva store just keeps them in one place and gives your items a better chance of showing up on the search engines.
AS for the fees if you list your items at a reasonable price, you will make money. Ebay is a business and all business's pay fees one way or another, you just have to factor these in when you do your pricing.
Anything you list on your auctiva will show up on ebay, but the auctiva store just keeps them in one place and gives your items a better chance of showing up on the search engines.
AS for the fees if you list your items at a reasonable price, you will make money. Ebay is a business and all business's pay fees one way or another, you just have to factor these in when you do your pricing.
Auctiva is nice as a listing service, but I would not use it as a store with its own domain name and such. Mostly because of the hosting.
Auctiva is only connected to the internet through Cogent, which almost every year disconnects networks (disputing of internet peering). I have been unable to use Auctiva or visit Auctiva stores for more than a week now. This forum works because it is hosted elsewhere..
Now your items are harder to find, than if you had an eBay store. As eBay is bigger and better secured against internet partitioning.
Auctiva is only connected to the internet through Cogent, which almost every year disconnects networks (disputing of internet peering). I have been unable to use Auctiva or visit Auctiva stores for more than a week now. This forum works because it is hosted elsewhere..
Now your items are harder to find, than if you had an eBay store. As eBay is bigger and better secured against internet partitioning.
Hi TechCF what country are you in ? Problems of access seem extremely rare from where I am in the UK.
If we'll be able to open a full Auctiva store in the future that's wonderful. If I understand things correctly, the reason we're able to include a link in our eBay listings to Auctiva right now is because Auctiva is currently just a listing format for eBay listings, and nothing else, so there's no competition. Do you have an expectation yet of whether eBay will continue to allow links to Auctiva in their listings if it's to an Auctiva Store?
quote:Originally posted by Auctiva Jeff:
Later this year we'll have a really nice store. Hopefully before the Christmas selling season.
Our next release in April will include inventory which will be useful when stores arrive because you'll be able to sell both on eBay and your own store.
quote:Originally posted by rubberduckproductions:
I get a large portion of my ebay store traffic via Google, now that I have begun uploading to GoogleBase. I highly recommend it.
Do you upload single items or is your store itself uploaded. I have 450 items currently running so that would be a lot of uploading! I've never heard of this before but am highly interested. Thanks
Yes you can bulk upload, but you dont need to any more. Google base have got a tool that links directly yo your ebay store and does it for you
OK, I am convinced. I will give it a try today and will certainly be back if I can't figure it out, :-). Thanks so much, Jan