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06/13/2018 at 11:52 pm in reply to: When being frugal, an ebay seller, and a scavenger combines for a perfect score #42441
Yep, we do the same thing. The flip side is, we joke that if we actually pay full price somewhere for something, we’ll see it within a week at a yard sale or thrift for a lot less…even if we haven’t seen one for months at those places LOL
Yep. Off and on all day today. Refresh usually works. A definite pain….
I haven’t tried enlarging the photo, and I could be completely wrong. Just thought it was a possibility. I AM old enough to remember some of this, but my eyes are also old enough to not see detail without enlargement LOL
so, no one think Ike and Tina Turner?
Here’s an older photo of the duo:
http://andrewdarlington.blogspot.com/2016/03/autobiography-confessions-of-ike-turner.html
T Salt, I agree, IF something like this comes to the USA, I’d review it and experiment with it.
At this point, given that ANY buyer already has access to Guaranteed Delivery, fast and free shipping , and, soon, more free return shipping from more sellers….where is the buyer’s incentive to PAY for “ebay Plus USA”?
I think eBay would probably need to sweeten the pot, with various exclusive deals for Plus members….
Welcome! What sort of stuff do you sell?
Jay, ebay Plus is one of those things, I think it’s good to know about in a general sort of way, so as sellers we’re not completely blindsided if it comes here.
But it’s also one of those things I see no point in studying closely because 1. It may never come here (at least as a buyer subscription service), and 2. even if it does, there’s no reason to think it will be identical with either the German plan or the Australian plan.
I’m content to wait. IF it ever comes here, THEN I’ll spend time figuring out the details.
Jay:
Discount on the final value fee
Applies only to sellers who offer 0 day handling for all their plus listings: For eBay Plus transactions, they will be granted a discount of 20% on the final value fee.https://verkaeuferportal.ebay.de/ebay-plus-program-sellers-english#anchor23399
Jay, I’m not sure Germany and Australia work the exact same way on this, and—IF—it comes to the USA, I imagine there might be some differences as well. So, UNTIL and UNLESS it launches here, I doubt eBay will provide any details or even substantial hints.
Yes, visual cues are important.
But let us not give them powers beyond their abilities. I do not think a buyer, who is happy with his purchase, with no desire to return the item, is going to have his free will obliterated by a button saying “return this item.”
If buttons had such power, then surely all my fixed price items that have had at least one view should have sold by now, for how can buyers deny the power of the irresistible Buy It Now button?
On the other hand, if a buyer actually WANTS to buy the item, then a prominent Buy It Now button makes that easier. Same as a buyer who already knows he wants to return an item will find it easier to do if the button is more prominent.
I just don’t see a problem here. Just as I think ebay should make check out as easy as possible, I can see making returns easy.
I’m guessing the trajectory will be similar to free shipping…there was a lot of unreasonable fear that ebay would make free shipping mandatory for everything on ebay. Of course, that never happened, and, in fact, ebay doesn’t do a lot of pushing on free shipping these days. Why? Because ebay probably met the internal goals they set for free shipping….the percentage of items with free shipping on ebay has been pretty consistent for a while now, and I think eBay’s satisfied with not only the overall percentage, but the percentage per category as well. Many of us sell a lot in the Arts and Collectibles vertical , and that’s never been a major free shipping concern for ebay. (That’s probably true for free returns as well)
It will take a while, but ebay will eventually get to the point where an acceptable percentage of listings include free return shipping, and I agree with Zach, we will likely all benefit from the increase in buyers as a result. In the meantime, as always, it’s up to each of us to figure out whether or not free returns is a good choice for us, as individual sellers. That answer will vary among us
the guy on the far left might be Jerry Blavat, the geator with the heater,,, if so, I’d guess the photo was taken in Philly.
Ike and Tina Turner
Oh yeah, I make those mistakes…ties are a big one. Sometimes I’m too rushed, sometimes it’s really that fact that the lighting is so bad at the buying location that it looks fine till I get it home and can look at it in better light.
This is just another reason why I like to pay low dollar amounts for a lot of things. If a fifty cent tie is badly stained I’m out 50 cents. If a ten dollar tie is stained, well…
One thing we also keep in mind with a lot of electrical stuff: If we get it home and it doesn’t work, is it something we could still make money on by parting it out?
06/08/2018 at 7:13 am in reply to: Reminder: Seller Metrics are coming and They Could Cost You. #41976Luftmentsh, The “employee” argument has been brought up many times on the ebay boards and elsewhere. It’s a fun jab at ebay’s rules, but it has no support in the law.
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