The Death of eBay and the Rise of Craigslist La mort de eBay et la montée de Craigslist
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It used to be that you could post your item on eBay pay small fees and sell your item without barely a question. Today if you are a regular person selling on eBay you have to treat it like a business. Why? Simply because a large cross-section of buyers on eBay, buy in a hostile manner and do so like they are buying from a business not a individual. It starts with 20 questions on the details on the cheap item you are selling from color, how it is to be used, how quickly it will be shipped. Somehow you are assumed to be a business owner when you are posting, maybe thats because there are so many businesses selling on eBay. Il fut un temps, vous pouvez afficher votre question sur eBay payer les honoraires et les petits vendre votre question sans peine une question. Aujourd'hui, si vous êtes une personne ordinaire de la vente sur eBay, vous devez le traiter comme une entreprise. Pourquoi? Simplement parce qu'un grand croix - Section des acheteurs sur eBay, d'acheter dans une hostilité manière et le faire comme ils le sont à partir de l'achat d'une entreprise non un individu. Il commence avec 20 questions sur les détails sur le bon point que vous vendez de la couleur, de la façon dont ils sont utilisés , À quelle vitesse il sera envoyé. Somehow vous êtes censé être propriétaire d'une entreprise lorsque vous envoyez des messages, c'est peut-être parce qu'il ya tellement d'entreprises vendant sur eBay. Most people’s experience is one of consumer to non-caring and non-personal business. By proxy of Joe’s warehouse selling an item and not shipping it for a month, you because you answer your emails and phone calls, become a target for the high maintenance buyer. Afterwards you become a customer service person. How does this item work? Can you send me a driver download? I wasn’t expecting a scratch there? This isn’t exactly what I expected. All of this is fine except for the fact that you sold your item (as is) online to recover extra cash. All the while you were charged exorbitant fees by both eBay and Paypal for your trouble and transaction. Your time to package and ship the item also factors into the amount of cost to rid yourself of the offending object. It seems buyer beware has been forgotten, replaced with a easy way to hassle you into helping. If you balk at the repeated and rude emails you are likely to loose some of your feedback. This of course is the ultimate weapon. Regular scammers flip eBay accounts like Pancakes at the House of Pancakes but for you your feedback is like your credit. The hostile buyer would just a soon leave bad feedback as send a email. L'expérience de la plupart des personnes est l'un des consommateurs de soins non et non personnelle. Par procuration de Joe's entrepôt de vente et non pas une question de la livraison d'un mois, parce que vous vous répondre à vos e-mails et d'appels téléphoniques, devient une cible Pour la haute entretien acheteur. Ensuite, vous devenez un service à la clientèle. Comment cette question? Pouvez-vous m'envoyer un chauffeur télécharger? Je ne m'attendais pas une égratignure? Ce n'est pas exactement ce que je m'attendais. Tout cela est Amende, sauf pour le fait que vous vendiez votre question (comme c'est) en ligne pour récupérer rentable. Tous les accusés alors que vous étiez honoraires exorbitants par les deux eBay et Paypal de votre problème et de transaction. Votre temps d'emballer et expédier les facteurs en question aussi Le montant des frais pour vous débarrasser de l'objet offensant. Il semblerait que l'acheteur fasse attention a été oublié, remplacé par un moyen facile de tracas en vous aidant. Si vous gausser face à la grossièreté des emails répétés et vous risquez de perdre certains de vos commentaires. Ce qui, évidemment, est l'arme ultime. Régulier scammers clapet eBay comptes comme Pancakes à la Chambre des crêpes pour vous, mais vos commentaires, c'est comme votre crédit. Hostiles L'acheteur serait juste un peu congé de mauvais commentaires comme envoyer un courriel.
It seems that eBay is no longer the online garage sale that had made it so popular. After all you wouldn’t have all these home business owners getting rich on eBay if it were a internet garage sale. The problem is, that was the attraction of it all. You easily post an item you no longer want and someone buys that item. It also used to be that everything was used on eBay not just one more e-commerce site. Now its the first stop for your new Nintendo Wii purchase. Why is this? Sure there’s deals to be found and used items that are inexpensive on eBay but lately a quick search of amazon will show you that the deal you thought was so great may not be a deal at all. So as a buyer you get ripped off and don’t get the service and support that comes from a reputable dealer. For instance if you buy your Nintendo Wii for $275 from BestBuy you at least have a multi million dollar corporation to go to when the Wii fails to work instead of Nintendoboy1984’s virtual shrug. It makes you wonder what people are thinking when they are making a purchase.
This brings us to Craigslist, a quick look at the Alexa rankings of Craigslist.org compared to eBay shows some strange activity over the last 5 years. Now I know that Alexa is constantly gamed and it not a accurate depiction of traffic but when you are dealing with such huge sites such as Craigslist and eBay the numbers get very hard to fudge. Basically it reads that Craigslist traffic is accelerating and eBay’s numbers are deflating. Why might this be? The easy answers are money and hassle.
I had the opportunity to sell on both eBay and Craigslist in the last week. The experience on Craigslist was one of quickly posting an item, someone nearby coming to get the item, and getting paid in cold hard cash without giving anyone one extra dime. The experience on eBay was post the item, wait several days, get asked a million questions as to where the item can be shipped to, can I end my auction early, and tons of details questions asked. The after purchase feeling was less bright also as you get to ship the item and then respond to impatient buyers wanting to know “where there item was” after one day. My feelings sunk yet again when I added up how much I actually made from all that trouble and how much Paypal and then eBay sucked out of the transaction.
At the end of the day I just cannot justify using a service such as eBay to post items unless I am actively running a business. This from former huge fan of eBay, it would be like me lamenting over a Apple product. The thing is if Apple products became a pain to deal with AND costly I would no longer be a fan of their product either. So eBay I bid Adieu to you, no more guilt of feedback and wasted money, Craigslist has won my heart with its simplicity and price (free). I have found that I can sell nearly anything worth selling on Craigslist and I can spend only a couple of minutes to do it. The best part is when I sell to someone buying off of Craigslist I am selling to a person looking to get a good deal and willing to take a chance but better yet I selling an item not a contract to devote my time.
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I think you nailed it, specifically shipping. Je pense que vous cloué elle, et plus précisément l'expédition. I love selling, I’ll even pay the fee but I HATE SHIPPING especially to other countries. J'aime vendre, je vais même payer la taxe mais je HATE EXPÉDITION surtout à d'autres pays. I won’t even ship to Mexico or Canada anymore. Je ne vais pas même navire au Mexique ou au Canada plus. Its too much trouble. Ses trop de peine.
So what about the Rise of Craigslist part? Donc, qu'en est-il de la montée de Craigslist partie?
Did you read the end? Avez-vous lu la fin?
I have sold 2 laptops and other computer parts on Craigslist with (like explained aboved) little effort, everything sold within 48 hours and I even got the price I asked for I never used Ebay to sell an item nor I have I bought anything from it, never like the bidding system. J'ai vendu 2 ordinateurs portables et d'autres parties sur ordinateur avec Craigslist (comme expliqué aboved) peu d'efforts, tout vendu en 48 heures, et j'ai même reçu le prix j'ai demandé je n'ai jamais utilisé Ebay vendre un article, ni que j'ai quelque chose que j'ai acheté d'elle , Jamais comme le système d'enchères.
Well, I am one of those businesses that used to sell on EBay. Eh bien, je fais partie de ceux utilisés pour les entreprises qui vendent sur EBay. In fact my company started from selling a few items on EBayevery day. En fait, mon entreprise a commencé à vendre les quelques points de EBayevery jour. Like others, however, EBay holds little appeal nowadays albeit for different reasons. Comme d'autres, cependant, ne sont pas pour George W. Bush détient aujourd'hui quoique pour des raisons différentes. Our analysis finds that unless you are a manufacturer, or have some incredible clearance or discounted source, you simply cannot make a recurring profit on EBay nowadays. Notre analyse constate que, sauf si vous êtes un constructeur, ou si vous avez une incroyable apurement ou en rejetant la source, vous ne pouvez pas simplement faire un bénéfice sur EBay récurrent de nos jours. In many ways, tthe mixing of Business and Personal listings may spell the demise of both. À bien des égards, tthe mélange des entreprises et le personnel des listes peuvent préciser la disparition de deux à la fois.
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It used to be that you could post your item on eBay pay small fees and sell your item without barely a question. Il fut un temps, vous pouvez afficher votre question sur eBay payer les honoraires et les petits vendre votre question sans peine une question. Today if you are a regular person selling on eBay you have to treat it like a business. Aujourd'hui, si vous êtes une personne ordinaire de la vente sur eBay, vous devez le traiter comme une entreprise. Why?… Pourquoi?…