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eBid - How do you get paid on eBid? Is it better than eBay for sellers?
 

I'm willing to give eBid a try. Does anyone have any experience selling products over there? Do sellers get paid easier there than on eBay?


Share your thoughts.

It may be worth doing alongside ebay and the like, not instead of.

Not worth it imo as you won't get many sales compared to ebay.

Ebid is a waste of time............

You do get paid the same way like EB but sales are really really rubbish.

I've not heard or come across someone who has made it on Ebid.......

TYpe Ebid using the search facility and you find everything you need to know.........:peace:

Not enough traffic to be a viable alternative to ebay...

If you have the time to do all the listings you could however run it along-side...

waste of time IMO. i had all my stuff from EB listed on there ages ago. Whilst i was pulling in a load of cash on EB, i got sweet FA on ebid

if i had a penny for everytime someone post an ebay alternative...

the site looks also pretty shifty

i sell on ebid its rubbish

it has potential to be great for sellers as it doesnt charge selling fee's but to sell you need buyers and it doesnt get any

The fact of the matter is that there ARE other sites out there. You might not sell as much on there, but perhaps they are EASIER to sell on.

As somebody above me said, its worth adding these to your portfolio.

Sometimes you have to think outside the box a bit, there are many outlets to sell on worldwide.

Traffic is not the only thing to consider, perhaps you can find a niche product that has too much competition on Ebay.

I've had one of their lifetime accounts since 2006 .. but i'm a bad example as a responder cos i've never listed there

Epic apathy :boink: <<<< E-bid

I've sold a few items, 3 at most in 1 week, don't actually anyone who buys on it tho an I've never bought on it

Im a lifetime member too and sold about 3 things and bought 1. Compare that to the thousands on ebay and several hundred on bonanza...

To answer the ops question .... You can use PayPal, skrill, merchant acct, checks, mos. they no longer can take amazon payments. To me Ebid has potential but it is a small privately owned firm so it is difficult for it to grow. The selling fees and friendliness are very inviting. I would only recommend it as an adjunct site at this point however. The only sites that can support your primary business needs are eBay and amazon IMO. All the other sites don't have enough traffic and I would only use them as adjuncts. I think Bonanza is the best of the rest.

i just took the 6 gbp something subscribe per month, but it doesnt look good.
no sale in 3 days.
i will wait 1 month to see.

Three days is nothing, you're a new seller. Trying selling some ultra cheap stuff to get feedback

I have already 460 feedback as seller from ebay that have been forwarded to ebid .
I will try to sell cheap stuff:)
thanks

but to me it really look that ebid is missing buyers big time.

wonder why that is. auctions do better there than bin. if you go bin definately use the best offer option. buyers there like to haggle.

i think these other sites dont use enough gimmicks to pull in buyers the way eb does. Like offering 2% back in eb bucks builds customer loyalty. BTW, what do they call this programme in the UK? ebay quids?

ebid is a waste of time, Ebay has the bigger market place

seems like there are lots of coin collectors on ebid

eBid needs a lot of work on the site and promotion to make it comparable to eB - worth a try to test your market niche but dont rely on it heavily.

its is what I am starting to get !
Even on ebay auction are even more important than buy it now..as it will bring more traffic.
I will try this on ebid as well.

Never once had a bid on ebid....a lot of looks but no bids. Go to ebay, have bids instantly.

The only good thing about ebid is the fact that you can import all of your feedback from ebay. So if you have 100 feedback on ebay for example, all of that gets imported to your ebid and your brand new account will now have 100 feedback.

BUT once you import, you are on your own. So make it worthwhile and make sure you have enough feedback that you want to import over...if you are OK with 10 or 20, then so be it.

Also, you have no selling limits on ebid. You can list one item for $1,000,000 if you wanted or 5,000 items for $1. Whatever....but will the bidders be there? Probably not.

ebid
 

Hi

I started using eBid when I got suspended.

I have only sold two items despite moving my 7000+ positive feedback across from eBay.

Its a good "other option" but only alongside the bigger sites due to lack of buyers.....

That said the way ebay are suspending good people due to their ridiculous DSR policy (why have feedback and DSR I'll never know!) someone should put a bit of effort into an alternative.

Good luck

Re: eBid - How do you get paid on eBid? Is it better than eBay for sellers?
 

For those who have used ebid and ecrater, can someone compare the traffic? Don't want to spend the registration fee if its totally dead

Like Ron Popeil (a renowned TV ad guy) would say for his cookery items: "Set it and forget it" - you can set up shop but just dont expect heavy traffic. Its pretty good for items to just set up and hope for sales...maybe some google direction ads or so to help

Does ebid.com have other payment options?

Yes, several including Google checkout

Can anyone tell if eBid listings are showing up in Google shopping? Mine are not showing up right now. Thanks in advance.

Mine show up .... but on the last page :tears:

Re: eBid - How do you get paid on eBid? Is it better than eBay for sellers?
 

My opinion is that, so far, Ebid is the worst eBay alternative out there, ecrater is good(although they seem to find my multiple accounts). IOffer I get some sales, but many scum bags who don't pay, or cheapskates making insulting offers. Bonanza is also not bad.

eBid is probably good for collectibles.. I see alot of those types of items. Otherwise I make 1 sale a month there but hey the fees are great!

Bonanza is very up and down - dont know why. Some months it will be crazy hot almost like ebay - then it goes dead cold for long stretches.

Havent tried the others yet.