Ebay says to wise up

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EBay Says You Should Wise Up

In response to user requests, eBay launched a new service giving buyers and sellers access to listing, bidding, and pricing trends in the marketplace to help them make more informed selling and buying decisions.
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eBay Says You Should Wise Up As many anticipate an especially busy online holiday season, the number of people using the Internet as their primary research and pricing resource is expected to increase.

eBay's Marketplace Research subscription service will allow eBay community members access to data and charts and graphs showing real time historical information on product listings.

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eBay boasts 168 million users with 60 million listings (including five million new listings per day). Nearly $1,400 worth of good are bought and sold every second. With numbers like these, eBay is often considered a barometer of consumer shopping trends.

One of the more useful features of the service is access to the Average Sold Price (ASP) to determine how much a product typically sells for. Statistical information like the number of times a product has been listed and average bids per item also provide a glimpse of what's hot this season.

Sellers will have access to real-time data going back as far as 90 days (with the right package) to keep them informed on recent trends in starting prices, ASPs, shipping charges, and top search terms.

EBay Says You Should Wise Up"As eBay.com continues to grow and evolve, sellers and buyers often need to make informed decisions quickly," said Bill Cobb, president, eBay North America. "eBay Marketplace Research offers them a convenient but powerful new e-commerce service, just in time for the key holiday season."

Subscriptions are available at three price levels-Fast Pass ($2.99 for 2 day use), Basic ($9.99 per month) or Pro ($24.99 per month). Fast Pass and Basic packages provide information looking back 60 days, while the Pro edition looks back 90 days.

 

[JMJ]

I know I can list my car in the local auto trader and sell it just as quickly or faster than I can with ebay and paying half the price. For some items sure. Large one time sell offs mabey mabey not. Ebay is begging for a return of business. There's a certain company based locally to me who had many of thousands of customers around the world and instead of paying ebays fees they opened up retail shops. It was fun while it lasted but you can buy the same crap at the garage sale nextdoor or the flea market down the road and not pay the shipping. I would be willing to bet within the very near future ebay changes it's model to a percentage upon sale only.

 

[readyman]

One thing I hate about eBay is that it takes them sometimes 6 days to respond to my emails! Even though it says expect a response in 24-48 hrs. I canceled my store account and guess what... they called me the next day! I sure let that customer service rep have it. Go figure, I stop sending them money and now they seem to care about my business!

 

[onlinebroker]

ebay is GREEDY.
fee for everything from listing to final sales + accept payment paypal. In the end they were taking around 20% from my each sales. I have stop using them.
Waiting for Google Free listing service.