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Anyone bought or sold anything on Wagglepop.com??
Wizardsguildcards
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This site is finally up and running, 9.95 a month for unlimited listings is pretty inviting.
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Wizardsguildcards
Posts: 536
Wizardsguildcards
Posts: 536
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Minnie Minoso Master and Basic
1967 Topps PSA 8+
1960's Topps run Mega Set
"For me, playing baseball has been like a war and I was defending the uniform I wore, Every time I put on the uniform I respected it like the American flag. I wore it like I was representing every Latin country."--Minnie Minoso
Some of the categories are totally dead, while others seem to have buyers.
also takes sellers to bring in the buyers."
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I would keep my $120.00 per year in my pocket;
and, maybe spend it on listing "upgrades" on
scamBAY.
WP is a rip at this point. NO BUYERS.
A bunch of the eBay folks that are leaving bc
of the fee-hikes on stores, are migrating to WP.
WP has had some "false starts," if you recall.
Maybe they will be fine now, but they still will
not have any buyers.
If you think stores have been slow at eBay,
try watching one at WP.
Bidville is another rip. Lots of great sellers, but
NO buyers.
Everybody knows that I am NOT defending scambay,
but the thruth is the truth. ONLY eBay has the buyers.
I will post some of the traffic numbers later. I have
June 15 to July 15 for Amazon, eBay, google, MSN,
yahoo, bidville. It is NOT a pretty picture for any outfit
other than eBay.
eBay listings are down. CORE listing are static, and
store listings have shrunk about 1,000,000 in the
past 13-days.
You can check the store exodus by doing a "search
for all stores" query. Just make a baseline and check
it every few days to see what the trend is. Each
search page has 25 stores; there were 9,000 pages
when I started looking at it, and it was at 8,600
when I looked yesterday.
The eBay store fees are not going to kill us. Although,
the card biz does suk big-time. The only thing that
seems to work this weekend is "listing upgrades"
on BINs that are priced REALLY low.
A lot of buyers are doing bargain hunting because
of the news stories about all the store closings.
Auctions were krap last week at all of my collectible
enterprises. Used-clothing is still excellent, but it
is a lot more work than collectibles. There are lots
of other junk-businesses that work real well on
eBay, but they all require WORK.
I suspect the folks who will do best are those that
improve and expand their presence on eBay while
the folks with the failed biz-plans move to WP.
My friend has tried for two-days to open a store at
Amazon, but their machines keep getting overloaded
right when he is at the most important part. I want to
experiment with it too, just so I know for sure how
bad/good it is.
My anecdotal evidence is all very negative on all of
the "alternatives." If you are used to selling 100 items
on eBay a month, it is very unlikely that you will do
5% of that in the next few months on the alternatives.
The holiday season will be good for all of the sites,
but eBay will be hitting it out of the park COMPARED
to all of the rest combined.
The best thing I can figure to do is just keep expanding
on eBay - more stores, more product-lines - and set up
some stand-alone sites that might start producing a
little next year.
I know it is all bad news that I bring, but eBay is the
ONLY game in town, right now. You will just be wasting
your money and time to fool with places that have no
shoppers.
More auctions, more CORE BINs and more listing upgrades
are the ONLY things I can see to do, for now. About, half of
those buyers come into the stores and about half of those
buy at least a little bit of junk.
I know most folks think the listing upgrades are a waste of
money; THEY ARE NOT !!!! But, you still have to price the
stuff "reasonable."
storm
My Auctions
I was just going tp ask if anyone uses "The New" Bidville...It seems they have a few watchers.
Sportslots is big too.
I was thinking getting a store over there for your cheaper cards say under 5.00 might not be a bad idea.
with you to their site.
Some also have a "grabber tool" that allows you to drag
your junk out of your eBay store and into the new storage closet.
storm
with you to their site
The one that had 70 something FB has over 3000 on Ebay so there is no carryover like Bidville has.