EBID - Has ANYBODY had ANY success?

[MadSam]

I think like a lot of people when I first got banned from ebay started looking for alternatives before realising that nothing beats the traffic to ebay. Ebid was one of the things I tried. I created all the same listings at all the same prices as on ebay. In six months I had one sale, who turned out to be a non-paying bidder. If I remember they've got a strange feedback system as well.

Has anybody achieved anything on there? Even if just a few sales, I'm wondering out of all their sellers, do they actually have any buyers????

[pod]

Originally Posted by madsam

wondering out of all their sellers, do they actually have any buyers????

I think your experience is pretty much how it is. There just is no viable competition to ebay. Someone posted stats a short while back and the #2 site next to ebay had just short of 3% the listings. 3%! And that's listings, not sales.

3% for number 2 - wow

We have no option auction wise but eBay sadly. They simply own it. traffic and sales.

We have all looked at these other sites. But problem is not ebay being asses. They are. But any system will get hammered by scammers. And in most cases the scammers are just plain smarter than the security. ebay doesn't make it so hard because they don't want us to sell. That's how they make billions. They just need to weed out the scammers with a shotgun. And bystanders will get hit. But its a percentage game. Better to hurt a small percentage of good guys to make sure the bad guys cant use the system

This is why google has so far decided to avoid online auctions. If any company in the world could do a start up that would compete, its google. But when they take a close look at what it attracts, scams and pissed off people, they pass. they like their reputation. And if they cant swing it, start-up company b has no shot....

long story short [too late] in my opinion, its not worth the time to even explore other auction sites. Time is money and you will just waste time unfortunately.