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There is an alternative we could all try ??
 

There is an alternative auction site we could all try.....eBid Online Auction House - Zero fee online auctions site for the USA, UK, Canada and Australia. Buy and Sell everything and anything without posting or final value fees in our multi-currency environment

By the looks of it it operates worldwide, its free to list, free to sell and no large fees from paypal either as you set up a pppay account which is free also....

Don't know if its worth a go but think I might give it a go for a month or so and just see if the potential sales are out there, maybe try to spread the word a bit too....who knows it may even give ebay a run for its money...will keep you posted...:)

Ebay is still d Gee,if ebid.net is highly advertised like ebay i think they will go a long way soon.They are very user friendly, sell some few stuff there.I also pray google do somethg about getting an auction site-Does anyone knows how to get to google customer service about this?I think if google can come up with that soon, then there will be no need 4 ebay as they r a bunch or thieves & retards there.It will make a great sense if people start sending messages to GOOGLE soon about creating an auction site & i bet they will definitely do that if they see d number of people writing them.Besides a lot of people use google service- they will be d best bet to give ebay a run for their traffic.
Anyway, d best of all is still to get a website & advertize as much as u can as u r d sole owner of that w/o anybody telling u what to do.
Goodluck everyone.

I found this browsing the web!!
 

Ioffer is good! Video dissing Feepay check it out--ww.ioffer.com
 

Check out IOFFER. They are coming up real quick.. You can import your feedback and listings from ebay as well....

Did you see there new video dissing feepay..That video is the funnist thing ever!..lol

Check this out, from Ioffer

I personally say no there is no alternative to ebay it took ebay nearly 10 years to get where they are other online auctions are just begining.

I was thinking, I know I am new here, but you guys really know what you are doing, and its working for me, I tell you the first few times login, I didnt want to look at the screen for fear, you have been SUSPENDED...lol:) . My ebay auctions are cooking with gas again. If you get enough people to join this forum, maybe we can come up with the next new ebay. It is just a thought. I have seen ioffer lately, they are building up a good customer base, I made some chump change there lately, I am keeping my eye on them.

lol give it a couple of months

Try iOffer: A place to buy, sell & make friends . It will not hurt to try. I get about 50 sales a month off that site which equals to about a extra $1000 pure profit

do you use paypal as payment method or something different?
thanks

I did use paypal until i heard about how they operate but now I use my own merchant account. I place a shopping basket on each of my listings on ioffer. So all they have to do is click on the buy it now shopping cart button in the listing.


Chris Hanson Dateline MSNBC Reporting

IOffer what a nice place to sell.
The thing that is funny about IOffer is that you can offer clearly, shall we say, cheap replicas of things and people want it and do not care.
After looking over a certain category, I was amazed at the prices the sellers are getting for the items and the fact that even the offers and counteroffers are to good to believe. The auctions clearly let you know that what you are buying might be suspect but the people do not care. After all where can you buy something for $100 that would cost you $300 in the store or even on the companies website. LOL, But then again International commerce is good and after doing some research on certain items it seems some of the items being offered are legit items sold overseas but they were not or are not to be sold or exported back to the US.

Just like Cigs - I could buy a pallet of Marlboros (cartons) for about $10 on the carton, but I have to agree and provide proof that they will be exported overseas and not resold here in the US.

International trade is a good thing! Also many of the replicas(depending on the supplier) is the exact same product of the original.

Ioffer is great for buyers and horrible for sellers. There are more sellers on there than buyers. Traffic is awful. Every seller is competing for the lowest priced item which is ridiculous. How do you make any money that way?

Marketing, Ballsack Marketing.

You have to be a business man, a seller. you cant just sell but you have to be a seller. you have to take pride in what you sell.

I convince my buyers that I'm better then the rest. As well know most sellers on their is scamming anyway so i decided to capitalize on the scammers. I made a nice template to go with my listings and now my sellers know that I'm legit and not just some other person that sells on there.


Also ioffer.com traffic is not awful at all. They have a decent amount of traffic. Check the traffic ratings.Related Info for: ioffer.com/

Their traffic is steady climbing

And Ebay isn't?? Isn't no different from Ebay. Same Shi* different place.

That is right the same stuff is sold on Ebay... The difference.
On Ebay the sellers "hide" the fact that it my be imported from China and "hope" that the buyer does not figure it out. Although some of the items are really top notch. On IOffer you do need to hide the fact that it is imported and show little things like asian writing and buyers eat it up.

BallSack - Even the prices that the sellers are accepting are profitable and that is what it is about. I know exactly where I can buy a particular item which retails for $369.99 for $25 each and then ask for $200 each and even if I get drilled down to $125 I still make $100. Wow, What a deal!
And on top of that you really do not have to worry much that the person will get upset as they know what they are buying. The only thing would be if it was a sting by law enforcement that bought it from you -----> But there are ways around that as well. OOOppppsssss Drop Ship - Did I say Drop Ship.... LOL

the funny thing happen to me on ioffer, someone bought something from me for $90 and I didnt have the item in stock. I tried calling the buyer, emailing etc.... Can not get a hold of buyer for nothing. It's been 3 months now and thebuyer basically just gave me $90 for free.

maybe the buyer went to jail or something??? The heck if I know

Yea, maybe the went to jail Chris Hanson. Seems you send plenty of people packing there. :)

HAHAHA/.. That was funny

First ebid sale
 

I can't beleive it but after 3 months and over 60 items in my ebid store I finally sold 2 items to one guy form Ohio. I never thought I would sell anything on that site. WHo knows.. a sale here and there might be worth the trouble. And no ebay nazis :D

the problem with ebid is :huge posts and less demand, also you can not know how many bids a specific item has unless you click on it (that's wasting time),it is not like Ebay.

ioffer success?
 

What kind of success rate have you guys had by selling on iOffer? Unfortunately, they don't have a view completed items feature like feeBay so it's hard to tell if it would be worth my time to try it.

Also, someone mentioned that it seems like they have a lot of knockoffs on there. I just read that they have a program similiar to feeBay's Vero called C.O.P.S. Is it not strictly enforced?

Thanks.

I was just getting warmed up with ebay
 

Hello all,

I was just getting geared up to start selling more... I had purchased a line of MAC pigments. I chose this line because I saw that they were selling like hotcakes. Before I could get started, ebay suddenly suspended a slew of the makeup sample sellers. I now have this huge collection of expensive makeup, and am looking for a way to sell it. It seems samples would be the best, but I could sell the whole, new jars.

I started a new account to sell this product and was trying to build feedback when they suspended that account.

I was once excited about what ebay could do for me, now I am starting to view it as not being worth while. I think many others will start having this view also, and ebay will loose business. Ebay forgets that sellers are also buyers. And outside buyers are attracted to a wide selection of products at bargain prices. So if ebay begins to hurt its sellers regularly, their business will decline.

I am a stockholder of ebay, and they are not doing that well. I am in the process of selling their stocks. I believe these errors that ebay is making in the treatment of their CUSTOMERS (both buyers and sellers) is making a new opportunity for a new leader to rise in this industry. I believe this will further spur the decline of ebay.

Modee...what are you selling...i might be intrested...

i think if google gets an auction site...that there will be competion..ebay is very harsh casue there the only ones in the game right now...once a competitor like google rises it will be a new game. google is rising too...there becoming bigger...i gurantee they will ahve an auction site in a few years and they will be competing with paypal and ebay:cool:

go google
 

Not true! googgle has a huge war chest to get the ball rolling. Yahoo used to be the nearest compitition but they didnt advertise. google needs to do an advertising and PR blitz, it could be bigger better and profitable within 3 years, assuming ebay stays their corse of poor customer relations and even poorer business partnerships.

LMAO I know this is an older thread but I just HAD to bump it. That parody is freakin hilarious! The thing I don't like about other sites. No enough bidders make sellers have high prices and ebay is nothing like that. :( sadly. No feedback and most are scamming to get your money without producing product. Ebay has gotten disgusting but I don't think they will ever be another ebay, again sadly.

I agree I know I tried other auction sites and I got sheit for bids and no bites or watchers or anything. I pop something on ebay within an hour or so I got questions and watchers galore and bidders also.

What people don't realize (poor advertising maybe?) is that google already HAS something in place--though it's not really an auction site. Google Base allows you to advertise your item at a set price and even allow offers. Though I have yet to figure out how to effectively reach the masses, and they have a HUGE problem with their servers only accepting mass listings to appear on Google Products at the moment.

The problem I've always had with Ioffer is that I get a lot of hit and run buyers there. Meaning, they hit, make an offer and don't seem to wait for a counter offer or a response. A lot of zero feedback parties seem to dance in and out. For all I know, they could be just scouting prices for their ebay listings?? Anyone else have this experience?

Jack that is because there are so many sellers there that can offer really cheap cheap items because most of sellers are from china

OMG that is so cool !!