Its all a bit mystifying. One minute they are encouraging people to open stores, the next they want you to go to auctions. Feedback and ratings don't mean as much as they used to. You now have to prove that you ship within one day and load tracking details if you are to maintain Top Seller status. That way you stay high in the searches but for sellers outside the US it is very difficult to load tracking details because they are not the same as USPS.
Bruce made a great decision to leave eBay some years ago. I agree with him that the rules and regulations would make it very difficult for him to operate these days. I feel that eBay could have had far more success by making it easier for sellers to stay with them. A huge number of sellers have transferred their business to websites - many with great success. eBay has lost that market and will never be able to regain it. JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA Website: www.moviemem.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/moviemem PO Box 92 Elanora Qld 4221 Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Rix Posterz To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 8:38 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] eBay free listings I really believe it all has to do with how much money you're pulling in for eBay. A few months ago, when my numbers went south, they started nailing me with B.S. that had never happened before. If you make them their money, they'll leave you alone and give you the perks...if you don't... then axe comes down. Bunch of mealy-mouthed scoundrels as far as I'm concerned. They don't give a good goddam if you have 12,000 positive feedbacks and rate 100%...once the sales slump off, they go for the throat... Rick http://www.ebay.com/sch/rixposterz/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=50 In a message dated 8/30/2012 3:19:29 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, brucehershen...@gmail.com writes: I am waiting for eBay to offer to PAY sellers to list items, and even then I would have to think long and hard about listing there. I know some people love it, but it is not my cup of tea. They have added so many anti-seller rules that I would be petrified after every sale, both that I might be scammed out of my poster, and that the buying might leave bad feedback for me and restrict my account. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Geraldine Kudaka <gkud...@rocketmail.com> wrote: EBAY USER ID: silky_buddha We got the invite and are selling original movie art & Star Wars items. We do not sell cheap repro & reprints. We sell only original art -- well, we do have copies, but these are copies made by the production and are vintage, production used art work. Our prices are less than what prop store sells art for -- i.e., an original pen, ink & marker concept sketch of Judge Hershey (in her Judge's uniform, with Lawblaster) sold for $89. That's screen used, original concept art which, at commercial movie prop/memorabilia sites, sells for over $400. We have Giger signed art. Not up, but to be listed, original art by Chris Foss for Flash Gordon... original storyboards & concept art by Alex Tavolouris, the first concept artist hired by Lucas for Star Wars... All original, not cheap repro... Of course, we had other items, like the British Quad Star Wars which --- got STOLEN!!!! -- anyone remember this story???? Missing Quad probably was sold by Heritage, but since we got 2 of each poster, our other Quad remains for ebay auction... Plus, a lot of high end items have sold at a BIN auction within 30 minutes of listing. Some within 5 minutes of listing. Of course, the 50K items does not apply to us because we are selling vintage items and end up paying UK listing fees anyway. There's no free lunch -- or at least, legal free lunches. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Waldman <jhnwald...@yahoo.com> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 8:29 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] eBay free listings I got the invite, but not to list 50,000 items. I haven't sold anything on Ebay for over a year. JW From: JOHN REID Vintage Movie Memorabilia <johnr...@moviemem.com> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:41 PM Subject: [MOPO] eBay free listings Hi MoPoers eBay currently has a promotion running where many sellers have been offerred up to 50,000 free auction listings for about nine days up until Aug 31. This has resulted in some sellers flooding the site with cheap repros and reprints. The crazy thing is that the offer has been sent "by invitation only" and it seems to have been done at random. Store sellers are not eligible so anyone who has a store would be seeing a big drop in sales while this promotion is on. Just curious as to whether any MoPo members received the invitation to list 50,000 items on auction. Regards John JOHN REID VINTAGE MOVIE MEMORABILIA Website: http://www.moviemem.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/moviemem PO Box 92 Elanora Qld 4221 Australia Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at http://www.filmfan.com/ ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. 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