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Bruce,
Oh, I knew you were talking about "those other few" -- but I still
thought it kind of funny that you would say something about not wanting to
see other dealers dropping out because of your competition -- and then turn
around in a few sentences and casually mention that you thought the few who are
trying to compete with you on your terms would be better off just consigning to
you...
...I'm sorry, but I see a humorous dichotomy there -- if only because
of the extremely close proximity of the two statements. But maybe I've
just been watching too many Presidential "debates" of late...
I guess some would find an eBay store a "cheap" way to display their
inventory... but it seems to me that for 1,000 items @ $50 a month that you
could do the same thing -- better, with no restrictions -- by simply putting up
your own website and paying maybe $20 a month for it. Then if you went to 2,000
or 3,000 items in inventory your monthly cost would stay at $20 instead of
rising to $100 or $150 a month. You could still use your eBay auctions as
promos for your website. I know that technically eBay does not allow this, but
it doesn't seem to stop a whole lot of sellers from slipping a promo
mention for their site into their auction descriptions, sometimes in a very
prominent way. Of course, doing an eBay store is "easier" than doing one's own
website, I suppose, and the "easy, convenient" road to hell is what eBay
has been paving for so many people for so long now.
-- JR
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004
1:08
Subject: Re: [MOPO] Where have all the
sellers gone, long time passing
JR
This post was in context to showing a way dealers
could list their items on
eBay, EVEN with their moronic set-up. I DO
agree they would be wise to
explore regularly placing their items on
MoviePosterBid (if only at their
retail prices), but that was not in the
context of my initial post, and
besides, you explore this second topic
often and quite well!
As to your thinking there is a contradiction in
what I said, that comes
from your reading too fast. I said that the
one or two volume sellers who
mimic me would get more money consigning to
me. That is likely NOT true
for any other dealer, and I never
suggested it. Other dealers need to get
above what they paid for
their items or they will go out of business fast,
and I can't guarantee
that. But I know that setting up an eBay store with
your entire
inventory IS a bargain and DOES make sense, at least for the
time
being. Of course there is no saying eBay won't raise the price to
ten
cents per item next month, but for right now it is a "real deal".
Just ask
John Reid, Denis from Movie Madness, or any of the other dozen or
so
dealers who already do this.
Bruce
JR
wrote:
"Bruce,
Good one! I laughed so much I cried when you
said:
"I do NOT in any way think I have any personal cause in this
lessening of
the number of sellers"
...and then exactly 3
sentences later you said of some of the other big
dealers on eBay
that
" I know they would net more money if they consigned those same
posters
to me and saved all the overhead they
currently have."
Great
stuff. Really. And, c'mon... this is your solution for the other
sellers --
that they should open a store on Ebay and give the Big E even
*more*of
their money each month?
Of course we both know there's a much better
solution and surely at this
point I don't have to spell it out... but its
initials are M... P...
B..."
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