News For Online Card & Memorabilia Sellers
storm888
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Something VERY "unusual" is happening on google.
auctionbytes dot com is following leads that indicate
google will soon have a "major announcement" about
"a new opportunity in online selling."
Two google test search terms indicate something is up.
"buy sports cards" and "buy sports memorabilia"
are now returning huge numbers of free-standing sellers.
In both terms, EBAY displays only ONE return on page one.
This could be a sign of yet another dispute between EBAY
and google, OR it could mean that google is about to do a
BETA launch of a selling venue.
Recently, EBAY has radically increased the number of words
it is buying on google. The google spider appears not to
want to give anything away, to EBAY sellers. Yet, other sites
continue to be crawled and indexed at higher than usual
rates.
IF something "interesting" does happen, the announcement
will likely come on or about the day the "PayPal/ProPay/MA
only" policy is officially scheduled to rollout.
............
I will be shocked, because I have no idea how an online
selling venue can make money. Maybe google does not
need to make money; maybe they just want EBAY crushed.
auctionbytes dot com is following leads that indicate
google will soon have a "major announcement" about
"a new opportunity in online selling."
Two google test search terms indicate something is up.
"buy sports cards" and "buy sports memorabilia"
are now returning huge numbers of free-standing sellers.
In both terms, EBAY displays only ONE return on page one.
This could be a sign of yet another dispute between EBAY
and google, OR it could mean that google is about to do a
BETA launch of a selling venue.
Recently, EBAY has radically increased the number of words
it is buying on google. The google spider appears not to
want to give anything away, to EBAY sellers. Yet, other sites
continue to be crawled and indexed at higher than usual
rates.
IF something "interesting" does happen, the announcement
will likely come on or about the day the "PayPal/ProPay/MA
only" policy is officially scheduled to rollout.
............
I will be shocked, because I have no idea how an online
selling venue can make money. Maybe google does not
need to make money; maybe they just want EBAY crushed.
Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
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<< <i>storm ,what do you think of the paypal only rule coming into affect soon?
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I have been PP-only on EBAY for a long time.
If I wanted to accept paper payments, I should
be able to do so; if EBAY was really "just a venue,"
I would be able to.
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Buyers do not need a PP account to use PP to make
a payment with a credit card. The loss of business
should be small, BUT since biznez is sooooooooo
bad, ANY loss is BAD.
LOTS of folks will be using GreenDot cards; prepaid
cards.
"I will be shocked, because I have no idea how an online selling venue can make money. Maybe google does not need to make money; maybe they just want EBAY crushed." How does ebay not make money. People list items and pay fees. The seller then pays a final value fee. Sometimes this fee is quite large. I know for a fact that EBAY is making alot of money off of me. Plus with EBAY hooked up with PAYPAL that is a money maker. Also, EBAY doesn't really police their site. They just let everyone do what they want- including crooks.
Mickey71
I've been using Visa Gift cards for a few months that cost me $3.00 but I've been putting at $500.00 on them to keep costs down and it is cheaper than buying several money orders.
Just my .02
-John
Ebay ID: jrconcessi
Collecting 1993 Finest Refractors & All Refractors 1993 - 2001, 1964 Topps Psa 8.5 or Better
Soon to be Collecting 1966 Batman Color and all Hall of Famers in all Sports in as High a Grade as I can Afford.
If Google started an auction/selling site, and were able to incorporate auction listings into regular searches, then it would be HUGE for them. If anybody has a more recognizable name than E-Bay, it would certainly be Google.
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A public company cannot exist on the relative pittance
that EBAY makes on listing fees and FVFs.
A private company, obviously, would think they were
rich if they took in the same "pittance."
Historically, EBAY was priced as "a growth company."
It is not, and has not been for a long time. The market
ONLY figured the SCAM out after May; the PPS has
been cut in half.
With their purchase of billmelater, EBAY now owns a
pile of "subprime" credit-card debt that is marked
at $500M. Much of that will become worthless in 2009.
EBAY knows that banking is their only hope. Sadly, for
them, they don't know how to do that right, either.
Their SEC filings tell the whole story about the "real" EBAY.
It ain't pretty.
google could deliver a near knockout blow, if they move
quickly.
google fears EBAY, not because EBAY is a "shopping venue."
google is scared to death that EBAY could become the
goto "shopping search engine." Too bad that EBAY's
leaders are too incompetent to have gotten that right, too.