Competitor getting annoyed!

[css1]

Wow you're lucky to even get a message from your competition.

Most times you wake up in the morning with some type of ridiculous ebay restriction and that's the end of your sales/accounts.

Work with him.

[css1]

Originally Posted by nyc

This thread reminds of American Gangster when Denzel tells Cuba not to dilute the brand. Blue magic that's a brand name. Trademark infringement lol.

One of my fav movies.

"I don't care what you call it, put a choke hold on the mother***er and call it blue dog ****"

[vogeltron]

Originally Posted by nyc

This thread reminds of American Gangster when Denzel tells Cuba not to dilute the brand. Blue magic that's a brand name. Trademark infringement lol.

Haha. Reminds me more of Prop Joe from The Wire. Trying to set up the New Day CO-OP.

[hulkman]

Yea definitely be careful because he could easily ruin your account if he wanted to. Best case scenario is to work it out on the price.

Never been a fan of price wars, I always let people come in with lower prices and I never match, they usually dont last long.

[zoneout]

Originally Posted by css1

Wow you're lucky to even get a message from your competition.

Most times you wake up in the morning with some type of ridiculous ebay restriction and that's the end of your sales/accounts.
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Nothing quite like starting off your day with an eBay restriction out of the blue.

Of course you could pull off a pre-emptive strike and nail him from some stealth buyer accounts.

[rsot]

Originally Posted by zoneout

Nothing quite like starting off your day with an eBay restriction out of the blue.

Of course you could pull off a pre-emptive strike and nail him from some stealth buyer accounts.

I hear that - if you have time for war and screwy antics...guess depends on the competition. Many ways to approach this - OP has a lot of options posted

[vogeltron]

Originally Posted by zoneout

Nothing quite like starting off your day with an eBay restriction out of the blue.

Of course you could pull off a pre-emptive strike and nail him from some stealth buyer accounts.

That really is childish especially considering today's eBay environment. I prefer to mind my own business an leave everyone else alone. I can say in years past. Some sellers who are larger and have have account managers. I want to say in the US you have to sell 150k to years in a row to get one. But they could pull certain stings to have items removed resulting in account suspensions. Especially for certain products that fall under Vero or Trademark Infringement. I know this was quite prevalent for a certain category of goods from 09-11. eBay has since basically eradicated that category. But I would not put it past other to pull out the same playbook.

[All_Sortz_2013]

Originally Posted by johnc

Looks like he's getting annoyed. I dropped my price below his, and he did the same. So I dropped it quite far down, but enough for me to make a decent profit.

Hi My name is ....., I run ........ Last week I was selling ....... for ....... and people gladly paid it. This left me with a nice profit. You then started undercutting my price and by doing so reduced both my profit and yours. Each time you reduce the price both you and I lose out. I don't understand why you are doing this unless you are selling for some reason other than to make a profit. I can afford to reduce the price down to zero if that's where you want to take it but as a business person I would prefer to make a profit for my efforts. I'm am going to raise my price to a reasonable level and wait to see what you do. If you want to continue this stupid price war we can but as I said the only people losing out are you and I
Looking forward to your reply
........ ......

Drop your price right down get him to drop his price and then buy all his stock out, Make sure he doesn't do this to you!

[rsot]

Originally Posted by All_Sortz_2013

Drop your price right down get him to drop his price and then buy all his stock out, Make sure he doesn't do this to you!

And what if his stock is plenty and he can refill? Meh - this idea has been done before but still more money to your competitor...

[vogeltron]

Originally Posted by rsot

And what if his stock is plenty and he can refill? Meh - this idea has been done before but still more money to your competitor...

Lol, College Degrees are worthless for the most part. But I studied economics. If you consider Game Theory it is the "prisoner's dilemma".
You all can look it up yourselves. Essentially those who agree to compromise have a Cartel lets call them "OPEC". Those who don't one moves first and each acts in their own behavior to compete try to drive each other out of the market. It may work it may not.

Hard to compare on an eBay scale but usually the one, like eBay member contacting the poster is ready to fold. Thus leaving market control up for grabs to the remaining competitors. You only contact someone like that if you are weak. True monopolists like Rockefeller would incur the losses to sell at a loss to eradicate a competitor.

Obviously you have to know your market. Know what you can price at and the quality at which you can sell. If you can drive someone else who can not compete on such basis then you are doing everyone a favor.

[da20valve]

Exactly what I said (but you phrased it like a big boy).

[Omgoozle]

Solution:

Keep the account steady at this price.

Open 6 more accounts and undercut him x6.

[rsot]

Well-stated vogeltron - was hoping to see who would pull out the economics on my statement props.