eBay vs. Amazon

• Report this Comment On January 19, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Hawmps wrote:

  A "click here to read the transcript" link would be super cool.

• Report this Comment On January 19, 2012, at 7:23 PM, George513 wrote:

  As far as making/saving $ and eBay goes, forget the stock and use the website.

  If you send the seller a question about an item, find another of their listings, and send the question from that item page, rather than from the one that you actually want. This will add a little bit of work for the seller, if they want to add the question/answer to the item description page that you are actually interested in.

  If you see an item that you want listed in auction format, send the seller a message asking if they will accept $x to end the auction early and sell the item to you. May be telling them that they would not have to wait as long to get their money (they would probably know that, but it still might help). If that does not work, use a sniping service such as Bidball.com to bid for you. It'll bid in the last few seconds, helping you to save money and avoid shill bidding.

  Use a site like Ebuyersedge.com to set up saved searches. You'd get an e-mail whenever a match is listed. Especially good for "Buy It Now"s priced right.

  If the item that you are looking for is difficult to spell, try a misspelling search site like Typojoe.com to hopefully find some deals with items that have main keywords misspelled in the title. Other interested buyers might never see them. Then, if the item is listed an auction format, after a few days of no bids (hopefully anyway) send the seller and offer to end the auction early and sell the item to you. They may worry that no one is interested, and take whatever they can get.

• Report this Comment On January 20, 2012, at 5:03 PM, PhilipCohen wrote:

  It’s funny how various analysts can come up with so many different interpretations of the eBay financials …

  Amongst the analysts, Deutsche Bank’s Jeetil Patel is still the only one that has over time consistently been wary of eBay and again prior to the 4Q2011 financials release said, “sell”.

  As usual, Donahoe is thrashing around in the quick sand of his own making, and the eBay marketplace is continuing its stagnation compared to ecommerce in general, and

  “… when foreign exchange is removed, eBay GMV growth rate for Q2-2011 is 10%, Q3-2011 is 11%, and Q4-2011 is 10%.”

  http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.pl?/comments/...

  “When Do We Start Calling eBay A Payments Company?”

  http://www.businessinsider.com/ebays-transformation-when-do-...

  This “Business Insider” article contains a revealing graph of eBay revenues since 2003. It shows quite starkly how eBay’s marketplace revenue has stagnated since 2007, about the time that the headless turkey, John Donahoe, got hold of the tiller and started his “destructive innovations”.

  So, the eBay marketplace has been stagnant since 2007—even before the GFC. Conversely, Amazon’s marketplace has not stagnated, it is consistently moving ahead in leaps and bounds, ergo the eBay Marketplace has effectively been in decline since 2007.

  eBay’s “take rate” improved simply because it is now charging a FVF on shipping and handling costs. To what is eBay next time going to add FVF to again pull the wool over analysts’ eyes?

  The graph also shows the eBay-underpinning increases in revenue eBay has received from PreyPal during the same period, that is, from roughly when the “eBafia Don” effectively mandated PreyPal’s use on the eBay Marketplace. Business Insider apparently thinks therefore that eBay’s future lays in PreyPal.

  Well, if BI or anyone else thinks that the retail banks are going to let such a parasitic upstart as PreyPal nibble at their field of expertise for any length of time, all I can say is, Dream on …

  Unfortunately for eBay’s chief headless turkey, Visa’s “V.me”, when it is up and running later this year, will put paid to whatever success that the clunky PreyPal has had outside of its mandated use on the eBay Marketplace—and soon thereafter both these unscrupulous and clunky entities will commence their long-deserved journeys down the gurgler.

  PayPal claims PayPal Is Not a Payments Processor!

  http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=24...

  eBay / PayPal / Donahoe: Dead Men Walking

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