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03/14/2018 at 9:42 pm #35213
Has anyone used myrealkarma.com to search for fellow eBay sellers in your area? I just found it recently,and was amazed at how many sellers there are in my area. On the site under tools you can search with a map. It’s really interesting.
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03/14/2018 at 10:15 pm #35214
Cool map!
The Postmaster in our town told me I’m the only eBayer in town. According to this map, that’s true.
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03/15/2018 at 7:57 am #35230
I figured it might be fun to see how much competition there is around me, wasn’t expecting as much as I found though! Then again I do live in a metro area of over 4 million people, so it makes sense I guess.
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03/15/2018 at 10:32 am #35246
Very interesting site. I found this article when reading up on it: https://www.thebalance.com/ebay-listings-rank-higher-with-myrealkarma-4022369
Seems to claim that it can help SEO and drive traffic to your store by putting all your information (social media, non-eBay stores, etc) in one place, while also cross-promoting listings. It seems easy enough to claim your account, so I’m going to give it a shot.
Is there an explanation of what “experience rating” means?
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03/15/2018 at 11:56 am #35248
MyRealKarma is confusing to me. When they first started the CEO would spam us about advertising here. This was about a year ago (when Suzanne Wells wrote this article).
I have no proof of anything, but we didnt like the guy’s style. I still dont understand what they do or their business model for making money. I would be suspicious of giving over my store to a company I didnt understand.
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03/15/2018 at 12:43 pm #35250
They are a technology company. What a technology company can do with the information they gather is endless. Take a minute to read the section titled About Us if you visit the site.
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03/15/2018 at 12:53 pm #35251
But they are also offering a customer service.
–What’s their elevator pitch for how they help sellers?
–What are the actual mechanics?
–What is their business model?if these things cant be easily explained without a bunch of business speak, then I personally would steer clear.
Obviously you can decide to give them access to your store.
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03/15/2018 at 4:55 pm #35297
Yes, I’m a little confused by the site also. I made an account anyway and linked my store to see if having access to their dashboard made it any clearer what it was about.
As far as I can tell, it does absolutely nothing besides mirror about 10 of my listings on their page. Additionally, the user dashboard is a just their main site with a different theme and links to the same map feature you have access to if you weren’t logged in. There is a Competitors tab that I couldn’t make sense of since the rankings aren’t explained.
I’m confused.
In the article linked above there’s mention of a “MyRealKarma Marketplace”, but I don’t see a link to it anywhere.
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03/15/2018 at 5:52 pm #35309
“They are collecting data. Data leads to traffic. Traffic leads to advertising dollars. ”
This is just general business-y talk. What data are they collecting? How does this push traffic to your listings?
As Inglewood says, it just looks like they create pages that mimic your eBay listings. What good does that do? Maybe the idea behind the site had some sense, but their execution looks like vaporware.
I’m happy to be wrong, but again it’s all about providing actual examples of concrete benefit. The web is littered with the dead husks of sites that promised to help eBay sellers.
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03/15/2018 at 3:10 pm #35270
Jay,
They are collecting data. Data leads to traffic. Traffic leads to advertising dollars. Traffic + data can lead to contracts with major companies such as ebay who want their data. Ebay just bought out a company who deals in data which they are incorporating into the seller experience and most likely are using when making marketplace decisions.
I find it interesting that at the bottonm of the website of this page, they have the logo of several major companies such as ebay and Amazon. So, I guess that must mean they are gathering data from across marketplace platforms.
As with most websites (especially those focused on gathering data) a cookie is probably set to drop on any computer that visits the site. Cookies are dropped on computers to track user activity for data gathering and/or marketing purposes.
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03/15/2018 at 3:35 pm #35279
You can find out who is selling near you by using the search tools in eBay. Select a common item like “Shirt” or “hat” to search for, change you search criteria to within “XX Miles of my location”, and you will be able to see who is actively selling items in your area that may be your scavenging competition.
My post office serves about a population of 3000 people, and we have been told that there are 2 other eBay sellers in our town. I pretty much figured out who they are, what they sell, and where they scavenge from based on there listings by doing the trick mentioned above.
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03/15/2018 at 8:08 pm #35325
Jay,
It appears that they are trying to become a central location that people go to for ecommerce information whether as a seller or consumer. The more data they gather about stores (what they sell, their ratings, etc.), sellers, and consumers etc., the more they make that data available, and the more they are able to become a resource for sellers and/or buyers, the more power and influence they have and create. This then leads to advertisers wanting to pay them to advertise on their site. If they grow enough, companies such as eBay, Amazon, etc. may take a look and pay to partner with them or buy them out. In addition, if their traffic and use grows enough, they can easily change from being a free service to being a paid service. Moreover, If they have it set up to “drop a cookie” on visiting computers, it gives them more tracking abilities and therefore data gathering opportunities. Many do not realize that a cookie is most likely being dropped on their computer when they visit a site. This cookie then sends information back to the originator about such things as sites you visit.
Jay, think about this way. If you want to know what other sellers are doing in ecommerce across platforms or if you want to shop but do want to take the time to visit the various platforms, would you go to one main place to find the information you want if you could? The answer is probably yes which is what they are banking on. This could actually reduce and/or increase traffic to a particular platform.
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03/16/2018 at 1:16 am #35344
I wouldn’t put much faith in them. They claim there are only 2 other sellers in my town, which I know is false, (I am good friends with 2 other sellers that don’t come up on their map). They also claim that I have less than 20 items for sale currently, (I have almost 400).
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