EBay not so subtly going back to its auction roots
In a “bid”, excuse the pun to be more friendly to buyer’s eBay will make dramatic changes to its site.
The pressure has finally mounted from investors to give growth a kick to the auction business.
Apparently, the expectation levels of eBay are getting higher; well this is what the analysts are saying.
The acquisition of Skype and other services non-auction related has seen a slow down in auction activity, meaning sellers are finding other sites which do not have such an extensive product range to tout there wares.
New home page design is planned with a simpler interface not to confuse its users.
New ways to deliver search results will be seen in coming months by more focus applied on seller’s feedback from other buyers and what
EBay considers more appealing, rather than item expiry listings.
Accelerated auction growth is anticipated when the major markets of the US and Germany implement the changes.
EBay needs to keep the on the right side of its sellers too, so reduction in carriage charges and other services are expected.
doolally 1799 days ago
http://www.doolally.netHi Dan,
“EBay needs to keep the on the right side of its sellers too, so reduction in carriage charges and other services are expected.”
I’m a bit lost on this point, the sellers set the carriage charges. Or do you mean the fee% charged on the carriage. I don’t believe the charge a fee on the carriage that’s why you see a lot of £1 items with £25 shipping to dodge the charge.
“New ways to deliver search results will be seen in coming months by more focus applied on seller’s feedback”
Do you think this could be like the higher % your feedback and the more of it you’ve got the higher in the search results you’ll go?
Cheers,
Dan Horton 1798 days ago
http://www.bronco.co.ukYes your quite right there ! think the statement issued implies a general look at reduction in sellers fees imposed by ebay. Although, I would of thought they would be working closely with the major postal services to work out some sort of deal too.
Users will have the “option” of seeing search results by what Ebay predicts as what will be most appealing to buyers and in part how well sellers have been rated by other buyers.
What does this mean,,,hmmm
I think its bound to have some reflection on how high your feedback rating is, but will everyone opt for the different search
results?
Questions i’d like to ask are what about power seller,,,will they have an unfair advantage over the little folk?
What about people who have accumulated lots of positive feedback by buying items at under 1p– oops did i just say that.
thanks for your post
Dan Horton
doolally 1798 days ago
http://www.doolally.netThanks Dan,
I’ve noticed eBay are pushing thier print postage with paypal feature a lot at the moment, maybe they’ll do some sort of deal with the Royal Mail where they will match the cost of franking.
Having 6K+ 100% feedback I’d like to think there would be some advantage to it. They might do something like Amazon where they have a drop down box where select to list by feedback%, feedback amount etc.
Cheers.
Player Lifestyle 1797 days ago
http://www.playerlifestyle.netHey doolally,
I’ve noticed that ebay are getting better at detecting items that have high postage charges in comparison to the item auction value. I recently had one of my 99p items (with £9 postage!) removed specifically for that reason…
It’s going to get harder and harder to game ebay…
doolally 1797 days ago
http://www.doolally.netHi The Player,
I think people are funny on ebay about postage. People often buy multipule listings from us. All our listings tell em to wait for an invoice for a postage discount if they do. So we pretty much guess about what it it’s gonna cost some time it might be a few quid over, some poeple don’t wait and pay the full amount.
We used to get emails once they got the goods complaining about the postage. Some were silly like You’ve charged me £3 postage and it’s only cost you £2.00. These sorts of emails stopped dead when we got a franking machine. Seems like people don’t realise the number on the Frank is the amount of postage paid.
Dan Horton 1797 days ago
http://www.bronco.co.uk“The Post Office has lost its £8m contract for Amazon.co.uk’s second class deliveries” hmmmm I wonder….
doolally 1797 days ago
http://www.doolally.netIt’s not surprising with stories like this
But I wonder who will take over? Royal Mail have lost a lot s of business customers with DHL, TNT, et al delivering business mail but Royal Mail still take it the “last mile” will this be the same situation I wonder and would other companies be able to compete if they had to take it the last mile.
Royal Mail are in a jam atm. They upgrade their machines so they can be more efficient and compete their people strike and more business goes elsewhere, They don’t upgrade and can’t compete and business goes elsewhere.
Rob Haswell 1796 days ago
News at 10: Incumbent struggles against agile competition? And now Jenny with the weather.
doolally 1796 days ago
http://www.doolally.netSorry Rob, that was a bit of topic.