Ebay is at it again….If sellers want to be top rated, you havw to offer Free Returns to all Buyers and no restocking fees. They’ve added 2 new store catagories and upped the subscriptions on existing store catagories. Want a chance at promoting your listings? Then you have to pay for Promoted Listings. Let’s not even address their guaranteed shipping dings sellers are not responsible for if the USPS screws up. Dont forget there are listing fees on each item you sell plus final value fees. Each store has a maximum free listing amount and then you pay fees for exceeding that amount. Compared to Bonanza which has no limits on free listings and no monthly charge for your booth/store. Sellers set their own policies on returns, restocking fees on Bonanza. Bonanza offers PayPal and Amazon Payments while Ebay is phasing out PayPal and will collect all payments owed to sellers which will result in payment delays to sellers while Ebay will earn a float on sellers’ money. I can go on and on…..Yes with Bonanza, you need to learn SEO and social media to promote your booth. I’ve gone a step further and setting up a Bonanza WebStore which I will tie to Instagram to promote my webstore with it’s own domain name. Yes it will take some time and work but a big benefit is that all my Bonanza booth items will not have to be relisted on my Bonanza WebStore. I tried Shopify and the format was not for my products since I sell pre-owned designer items and Shopify wanted reseller authorizations from all designers. Bonanza’s listing interface is fast and easy. I can’t understand why anyone would complain about a free booth and no listing fees and to only pay for final value fees. I don’t know anyone who works for free and doubt many would. So why complain over what amounts to pocket change commpared to the benefits Bonanza provides it’s sellers. Bonanza is such a value and I suspect there is going to be a mass exodus of Ebay sellers to Bonanza once all the updates start. Here’s the link to the Ebay Spring 2018 Updates….Read it and weep…
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bargainbuffet4you Reputation: 53 See bargainbuffet4you's booth |
I stopped listing new items on Ebay since the first of the year, after being a seller there since 2003. They seem to punish small sellers and awarding the big box stores and sellers all the benefits. I really feel that Bonanza will become the NEW Ebay someday. Bonanza is just more seller friendly.
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markbroy Reputation: 74 See markbroy's booth |
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Hopefully Bonanza will see this as an opportunity to become MORE OF A DESTINATION for shoppers and build a better audience by THEM advertising to bring more BUYERS into the site. I don’t do the social media stuff and sales are not what they used to be here lately if you don’t do that it seems. Not needing to do any social media on the auction site, you (used to) get many views and sales on items but many seemed to have abandoned that site with the influx of all the bugs and changes they constantly create for both sellers and buyers there over the past few years. They truly seem to be a sinking ship and Bonanza should come to the rescue by trying to be more of a destination than it is. Then everybody would benefit and Bonanza could surpass the auction site eventually.
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Atomicdiner Reputation: 1902 See Atomicdiner's booth |
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Sorry to add more confusion, here’s something else eBay is working [URL removed]
eCommerceBytes by Ina Steiner
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I really think this is good news for Bonanza though but truly am sorry for those who love to sell on eBay and have gotten completely comfortable with their selling platform but now are not (if others are still fine with it, then that is great also).
Even though I had quit selling on eBay for the most part, I still really did not feel too bad about eBay but hearing all of this, it just sounds like a whole lot of BIG changes going on too close together.
Will have to really give it some thought on how I feel about selling on eBay in the future.
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EmpressDepot Reputation: 6839 See EmpressDepot's booth |
Now is the time for Bonanza to act and really promote There still is just not enough traffic here and no one still to this day has ever heard of this site. I really wish we had more sales here. I like that we can still use and accept paypal thats a huge plus for me as i dont like to wait to get paid. This site can really do well if its promoted right and heavily.
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BowersBestBuy Reputation: 34 See BowersBestBuy's booth |
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