The Death of eBay and the Rise of Craigslist ebayとの死の台頭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.それに使用されるアイテムを投稿することができebayの手数料を支払うと小さな辛うじて質問をせずにお客様のアイテムを販売します。今日の場合は、定期的に販売された人を治療する必要がありebayのように、ビジネスはなぜですか。単純にするために、大規模なクロス-イーベイ上のセクションのバイヤーは、敵対的な態度を購入することのように、彼らは買いませんから、個別のビジネスです。それで始まる2 0の質問は、安価なアイテムの詳細については、現在の売りから色、どのように使用されるは、それはどのように迅速に発送します。あなたは、何らかの理由で、ビジネスの所有者と推定される場合は、投稿、 thatsのかもしれないため、多くの企業が非常に売りがイーベイます。 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.ほとんどの人は、自分の経験を非思いやりのある消費者の個人情報以外のビジネスとします。プロキシのジョーの倉庫販売されるアイテムの配送することではなく、 1カ月、あなたのためにメールや電話で回答して、対象となるメンテナンスのための高いバイヤーします。その後の顧客サービス担当者になるとします。このアイテムはどのように動作しますか?ドライバのダウンロードを送っていただけますか?期待しませんでした。スクラッチありますか。これはまさに私が予想される。これはすべての罰金を除けば、実際にお客様のアイテムを販売します。 (は)オンラインでの余分な現金を回復します。すべての間に法外な料金が請求され、お客様の問題の両方をイーベイとペイパルと取引します。お客様の時間をパッケージと船のアイテムの要因にも量のコストをして不要なオブジェクトを除去します。よう買い手はご用心を忘れてきた、面倒を簡単に置き換えられ、あなたを支援します。ボークの場合は、現在の電子メールを繰り返したと失礼ないくつかのように緩んでのご意見をお寄せください。もちろんこれは、究極の武器です。通常の詐欺師フリップebayのアカウントでの家のパンケーキパンケーキしかし、あなたのようなお客様のご意見は、クレジットします。敵対するだけですぐにご希望の買い手として残す悪いフィードバックを送信する電子メールです。

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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6 Responses to “The Death of eBay and the Rise of Craigslist” 6回答を"死のebayとcraigslistの台頭"

  1. Amy Belier onエイミーをベリエ myavatars 0.2 November 5th, 2007 5:46 pm 2007年11月5日午前5時46時まで

    I think you nailed it, specifically shipping.くぎだと思いますし、具体的に配送します。 I love selling, I’ll even pay the fee but I HATE SHIPPING especially to other countries.大好きな売り、手数料を支払っても私が嫌いだけど、特に海運を他の国にします。 I won’t even ship to Mexico or Canada anymore.私は船をメキシコまたはカナダにもない。 Its too much trouble.そのあまりご迷惑します。

  2. Jeff Sジェフ秒 on myavatars 0.2 November 5th, 2007 6:01 pm 2007年11月5日6 : 01時まで

    So what about the Rise of Craigslist part?だからcraigslistの上昇については、どのような団体ですか?

  3. wiseassoffice on myavatars 0.2 November 5th, 2007 8:31 pm 2007年11月5日午前8時31時まで

    Did you read the end?お読み終わりましたか?

  4. Gadgetman on gadgetman上 myavatars 0.2 November 9th, 2007 6:15 pm 2007年11月9日午後6時15分

    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.私が売ら2ノートパソコンやその他のコンピュータ上の部分をcraigslist (のように説明しaboved )小さな努力を、すべて売却し、 48時間以内に、私は価格を頼んでも私は決してアイテムを売却するために使用さイーベイも私はそれから何かを買ったは、入札制度のようなことです。

  5. Ultimate Language究極の言語 on myavatars 0.2 November 11th, 2007 5:22 am 2007年11月11日午前5時22時

    Well, I am one of those businesses that used to sell on EBay.さて、私はこれらの事業の1つとしてイーベイに売却して使用されます。 In fact my company started from selling a few items on EBayevery day.実際、私の会社から販売を始め、いくつかのアイテムをebayevery日です。 Like others, however, EBay holds little appeal nowadays albeit for different reasons.他のような、しかし、最近の控訴リトルイーベイを保持したものの、別の理由があります。 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.われわれの分析で検出していない場合には、メーカー、あるいは信じられないほどのすき間やディスカウント源がいくつかある場合、単に経常利益を行うことはできません最近イーベイます。 In many ways, tthe mixing of Business and Personal listings may spell the demise of both.多くの点で、ビジネスや個人的なリスティングtthe混合の可能性の両方のスペルの崩壊します。

  6. PlugIM.com plugim.com on myavatars 0.2 November 11th, 2007 6:03 am 2007年11月11日午前6時03時

    The Death of EBay… イーベイの死…

    It used to be that you could post your item on eBay pay small fees and sell your item without barely a question.それに使用されるアイテムを投稿することができebayの手数料を支払うと小さな辛うじて質問をせずにお客様のアイテムを販売します。 Today if you are a regular person selling on eBay you have to treat it like a business.今日の場合は、定期的に販売された人を治療する必要がありイーベイビジネスのようにすることです。 Why?…なぜですか…

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