serleran wrote:I don't really bother with searches, to be honest. I typically do "ending within an hour" or "started within 12 hours and is BIN." Everything else is just junk on there, and never works right.
. wrote:The system used for searching now filters product based on the quality of the seller experience (as reported by other buyers), the qualtity of revenue generated by the seller, and the previous results those keywords have returned that have resulted in searchers watching or bidding upon. The bigger the seller you are, the more often your product will appear in search results, and small time sellers will still feature, but will be either be placed farther down the list (say page 7) or filtered out as not likely to generate revenue.
. wrote:No. Other than the fact that the buyer is present during the transaction, eBay makes all it's money off of the seller. The buyer contributes nothing to eBay whatsoever. And in most instances, people buy on eBay because they cannot buy cheaper or easier elsewhere, so there is no need to pander to buyers at all.If you say eBay has no market without buyers, the same is true for sellers. Buy their entire funding comes from sellers only. So that pount is eronious.As regards all the other points, whether a buyer can find what they are looking for or not, they have no choice. eBay has an absolute monopoly over the entire market. Furthermore, buyers have been pushing eBay to bias their policies in favour of the buyer for the past five years. If there is a change that in some ways inconveniences buyers, then maybe it's about time. As with all other changes, this will do very little to damage eBay as a company. It may be a welcome change to an otherwise dull experience.
bbarsh wrote:Ok, I just did a search for "judges guild" and it popped with just 6 auctions. I have neve seen that few before. Usually runs about two pages worth of stuff.
. wrote:Problem is Amazon is so shite.You cannot list an item for sale unless Amazon beforehand get a memeber of their staff to sancion the item and check that it is a legal product and the process takes 8-10 months.As a UK seller, I am not allowed to sell CZ:UW for example, because it is not a legal product. As far as Amazon are concerned the product is fake and I am trying to commit fraud by listing bogus items on their site. They are trying to varify that the product is real and legitimate, but it has to go through their research department and still has not been agreed upon by the committee that control sales.Bottom line in there is no way of selling RPGs as a business on Amazon. The same goes for every single other item under the sun with the possible exception of mainstream paperbacks which have pracically zero margin because you cannot compete with Amazon on price.Amazon is in no way in the same business as eBay. eBay are in the business of trying to get sellers to sell things (they try to extort as much money from them as they can). Amazon are in the business of selling wholesale like Walmart of any other seller. They do not even pretend to give a f"ck about any third party seller who likes to play barnacle for a bit.With eBay sellers make money.There in no way to make money from Amazon. Share price is irrelevant in the discussion as Amazon's turnover is not affected by whether or not sellers and buyers manage to agree to sell to one another.
Badmike wrote:Plenty of people (even some I know) make money on Amazon. Some people even make MORE money on Amazon than they did on Ebay.
