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eBay viewing change: implications
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lugnet.market.theory
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Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:28:56 GMT
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I recently threw a handful of lots on eBay, something I haven't done for a
while, and I've been puzzled by how slowly they were moving. Today I went
and took a look at the Lego category on eBay, and realised why: now, when
you pick a category to view, the default is to see *only* items which are in
the gallery (ie have paid the extra 25c to eBay to be in it).
You have to click a special "hide gallery" link in order to see items at all
which are not in the gallery. In other words, most buyers and browsers are
never going to see your item AT ALL if it's not in the gallery. Even the
link I just mentioned doesn't clearly communicate that there are more items
to see which are not in the gallery (it should say something like "show
non-gallery items" to do that).
So eBay has found yet another way to screw more money out of sellers,
because if you're not in the gallery you're not going to get a decent price
for your lots.
Using the search to find items still works to see items which aren't in the
gallery, but I suspect that most eBay browsers use the categories rather
than the search.
Kevin
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| (...) I have noticed that my auctions have been pretty unsuccessful lately as well. When I go in via browse, building toys, lego, I get to see everything. Am I just lucky? OR do most people view the auctions in a different manner? (please bear in (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) Ebay continually comes up with more and more ways to make it harder to sell items, without paying those extra fees. I also sell LEGOS on ebay, at times and I've noticed that items without pictures, or gallery images don't seems to result in my (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.theory)
| | | Re: eBay viewing change: implications
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| (...) I always buy the gallery... but i'm not sure I - admire eBay's cleverness - loath eBay's perniciousness or both. This may be their most devious change yet. Man I wish they didn't have first mover... (but we know what a wish is worth) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.theory)
| | | Re: eBay viewing change: implications
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| Kevin Wilson wrote in message ... (...) in (...) This is very weird: just now I went and followed the *exact same path* I did this morning (when I saw the effect described above, where *only* gallery items showed), and now I see everything, not just (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.theory)
| | | Re: eBay viewing change: implications
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| You sure about Gallery View being a default setting? I just tried a few different categories I don't normally visit, browsing to them from My Ebay favorite links or just from the home page, and I never had anything automatically open with Gallery (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.market.theory)
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