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I suspect the bidders are just having fun and have no intention of paying. The video went viral and people are screwing around. Not sure the videomaker will worry too much about it….he was probably hoping to get new business for his own video business rather than sell the car. I don’t know what it costs to make a video like that, but I’d guess a fair bit.
But I’ve often thought ebay sellers don’t make enough use of video. I’ve used it for things like singing Santas, to show they work, but it would be fun to do more elaborate stuff.
I think someone up above mentioned Tim Chapman—he’s giving his Top Ten Tips for ebay Selling on eBay Radio today, for anyone who might be interested (If you miss the show, you can always listen to it in the Archives.)
Ryanne—LOL! My thoughts exactly. The headline overstates the author’s case by a huge magnitude. No doubt it’s true that ebay is no longer the hot new thing everyone’s talking about, but it remains a huge site with an active buyer and seller base. They added another 2 million buyers this quarter. That ain’t peanuts.
christine, Your business model reminds me of a guy who used to be on the ebay Boards (sadly, I think he passed away some years ago). He had been running a retail shop for years before ebay, in a tourist town, and was a business savvy guy. He sold a mix of new gift shop type stuff (presumably sourced at wholesale) along with antiques. His view was: the new stuff sold faster and provided his main cash flow source, and the antiques were the profit center because of his higher margins. So he was willing to wait for the long tail items to sell while the newer stuff brought in cash at a pretty steady pace.
Terri,
If it is working correctly, what that means is this:
C9 Christmas Bulbs
is apparently a pretty broad search term. There are 1888 listings , many of them presumably for the same product. What is supposed to happen with this new thing is: there are 306 separate products. So, instead of the buyer digging through 1888 listings, the buyer can dig through 306. If she finds the product she wants, she clicks on that listing, which will open , not a traditional listing page, but a “product page”, which groups the same products together. Your item is presumably shown on one of the product pages.
I hope this makes sense.
Can you provide a link to your specific item? That might help me explain it if it still isn’t clear.
THose die cuts are really early die cuts…almost anything OLD Halloween will do well. Sourcing it at a good price is another matter, but I’m always looking.Newer Halloween can do quite well too, so don’t overlook it. Best thing to do is study solds on ebay.
OK, I just made an offer on the hand mirror. I included a message saying “Scavenger Life test”
Beverley,
The Santa Claus you ARE picturing is probably largely the product of Coca Cola, and only really dates back to the 1930s or so. Before that, Santa was depicted in a lot of different ways, although by the 30s, some of the basics were in place, just waiting for Haddon Sundblom to give us our modern Santa in ad campaigns for Coke.I’m a little surprised that he seems to be saying ebay has been pretty quiet about this. That’s just nonsense. eBay has been talking up Product Identifiers, their Catalog, and Product pages for several years now. And as Wenig has said, it’s something they should have done YEARS ago…if they had, they might be Number One today, instead of Amazon (or at least a lot closer to Amazon).
I do not share his pessimistic forecast about small sellers and the product pages. BUT I do think small sellers need to be realistic about ebay’s priorities. For more than a decade people have been saying ebay wants to get rid of the small sellers. I don’t think so. For the simple reason that we provide some of the most interesting inventory, the stuff that helps to differentiate ebay from other mainstream sites and helps to give ebay its truly vast selection. And also because quite a few “large” sellers on ebay started small….we’re the farm team for the pros, so to speak. And of course, many of us buy on the site because we spend so much time there.
So, as a group, we are very important to ebay, even if, as a group, we contribute a relatively small percentage of ebay’s GMV. But as individuals, we are expendable. I find it best to recognize my place in the ebay ecosystem (my place is pretty far down the food chain).
