Bonanza

you could do a google search for your title there……….

anyone have a Bonanza membership? I know scavenger’s did a test of paid Bonanza membership store, was sales/traffic worth it? can’t remember……….

I can only speak for my own experiment on Bonanza, over a year I sold 6 things. Now that may sound like gravey but of the 6 – 2 ended up being cancellations and 1 a return.

I did take out the most minimal membership for two months Nov and Dec. that was when I go the 2 cancellations and the return.

Even if the process was easy I could maybe say well a few orders is better than none. Except the process to do a cancellation requires you to download a pdf of your refund on Paypal. Then upload it to Bonanza. Then wait for them to approve it so you get your fees back.

It is also a buried link / process. So the time wasted is incredible.

So I cancelled Bonanza around Xmas and won’t be going back.

I just have the free Bonanza account, so I don’t pay for anything until an item sells. In 2015, I sold 11 items all year. I went on vacation in 2016, and forgot to turn my Bonanza store back on until 9 months later, (oops). For 2016, I sold 1 item in November, and 2 in December.

I’ll keep Bonanza going as long as my account stays free. If they ever start charging me to sync up my ebay store, I’ll ditch it.

looks like bonanza is showing my scheduled listings on google shopping (you can see i set my scheduled drafts to $1000 so no one buys things before i really price them because of this). seems like a HUGE bug that i’ve contacted them twice about.

http://imgur.com/a/Qxp13

I canceled our Bonanza store because they weren’t notifying me when an item sold AND they weren’t ending it on ebay. They started out ok but it went downhill after that and I didn’t change anything in my settings. Bleah

I signed up for Bonanza, then read somewhere online that ebay considers it and Truegether a violation of terms? Something to do with my allowing it to transfer my ebay listings over is the equivalent of a 3rd party service that crawl listings? So I panicked and deleted both Bonanza and Truegether. Has anyone ever had any indication from ebay that it is a violation and either suppresses your account or worse – closes an account?

Hi Ryanne,

It is here: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/user-agreement.html

Specifically in the “Using Ebay” section: …use any robot, spider, scraper, data mining tools, data gathering and extraction tools, or other automated means to access our Services for any purpose, except with the prior express permission of eBay;

I’m not sure if it is a violation – that is my question really. I want to use Truegether and Bonanza but really only if I can have them transfer the listings – no way I can manually do two more sites. I’m just too afraid to lose my ebay account though. Wondering if anyone else had thoughts/experience with anything negative happening?

I’m not sure if it is a violation – that is my question really. I want to use Truegether and Bonanaza but really only if I can have them transfer the listings – no way I can manually do two more sites. I’m just too afraid to lose my ebay account though. Wondering if anyone else had thoughts/experience with anything negative happening?

Bonanza has “prior express permission of eBay” as when you sign up for bonanza you go to ebay and sign-in to “allow” bonanza to use ebay’s api of your listings on their site. Maybe you should read Bonanza’s help section too.

Ebay is aware, lol. Bonanza does NOT scrape.

Wow

• This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Nan.

I’m sure Ebay gets a cut of Bonanza sales, I guess they are figuring that Bonanza isn’t really a threat and they might as well grab some extra money and let Bonanza pay for the advertising fees on any sales.

I’ve been using Bonanza for around 3 years at this point, my store usually hovers around 700 items, and I’ve had maybe 20 sales over that period of time.

Ryanne,

Bonanza has “prior express permission of eBay” to scrape the site. I’m sure they didn’t give permission away for free. I’m a corporate Financial Analyst, these sort of licencing / profit sharing deals are pretty common.

So I just sold a pair of pants on Bonanza… (I seem to sell something once a quarter.) Since I only go into that account every few months (once I get a sale) I look things over and try to update my booth over there, etc. I ALWAYS find at least a handful of duplicated items and it is a real hassle, as the full eBay sync doesn’t always seem to catch everything and I have to sort and remove the duplicates manually. Does anyone else have this problem? (I double checked and my automatic synching options are correctly checked.)

But now for a quick tip, if you are using Bonanza, you can manually import your feedback from eBay (you have to initiate this import manually and there is a button to do so) It’s a good idea to do this every once in a while. Since it had been a year since I last did this – I had a lot of feedback to import.

Also, when printing labels through Bonanza, they don’t fit well on the two-per-page sticky labels that a lot of us use. And I usually ending up wasting labels and getting frustrated before I figure out how to get it right. I just realized if you select “Landscape” instead of “Portrait” on your printer option, it will print the label “sideways” and it will fit on the 1/2 sheet in a much better way. (It is turned sideways, but still works out much better than printing in the middle of the two sticky labels.) Anyway, just wanted to share, the Bonanza labels are a little wonky. I also noticed a bug in the padded flat rate mailing price, it was quoting me $5.10 + $.95 cent processing fee and I thought wow, I’m getting this for $6.05, cheaper than eBay! But it actually charged $6.95 I think it was to my credit card. So, they haven’t yet updated all their pricing tables for the USPS rate hike, just FYI!

Happy Selling..

Warning about an important part of your ebay listing that does NOT import to Bonanza: the Seller Notes that appear under Item Specifics and also near the top under Item Condition. This could be a major issue for those of us who make notes about flaws, defects, and other condition issues in this section and nowhere else.

I’m pretty sure I learned on the Forum here that it’s a Best Practice to keep the main body (ie, the Description section) of our ebay listings to a bare minimum. I used to list what I called “Notable Flaws” in this main section, but I changed that practice awhile ago. Now when I’m listing, I describe all those condition issues in the box titled “Condition description,” which shows up, as I mentioned above, as italicized print near the top of your listing and as Seller Notes in the Item Specifics section.

The problem is that Bonanza does NOT import that information from ebay. In fact, the response I got from a Bonanza rep is that “…eBay does not send us that information during the import so we are unable to add that to the listing.” For me and anyone that lists like I do, potential buyers aren’t able to read about flaws and defects unless we manually add them to each Bonanza listing. The rep continued, “We would recommend that you state everything necessary about the item in the item description. eBay does send us that information.”

I had to cancel and refund a $50 Bonanza purchase because the person did not have access to the flaws and defects. (In my case, the added dilemma was that not all the photos from ebay imported either. The rep acknowledged that that was Bonanza’s mistake, a glitch in the system at the time.) After purchasing a pair of plates, the buyer messaged me to say how happy she was that she found them, and she hoped there were no chips in them. Well, I knew that I had noted a chip in one of the plates in my ebay listing, so that’s when I checked my Bonanza listing and there was no mention of the chip, and the photo of the chip was one of the photos that did not import. She decided to cancel after I explained the problem.

Bottom line, if you only note defects in the “Condition description” box on ebay, you either have to manually enter them on Bonanza or remove listings with defects from Bonanza altogether. Hope that helps!