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March 2006 http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?ESHMm032006
March 2005 http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?ESHMm032005
March 2004 http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?ESHMm032004

2006 http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?ESHYy2006
2005 http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?ESHYy2005
2004 http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?ESHYy2004

2006 counts fell to 2004 levels  :blinkie:

Auctions have always been a bit hit and miss with our products - have always done much better with store or fixed price.  In the past month auctions have tanked for us.  But at the same time we haven't ran many anyway.

Rob

Quote:Auctions have always been a bit hit and miss with our products - have always done much better with store or fixed price

Our main categories on eBay are (and have been) glutted so sellers in our categories have to run a high % of auctions...along with the glut came dramatically falling prices so the profits are slim for most sellers.

When we were concentrating on eBay, we always did best with 10-day buy-it-now auctions (but that was before eBay started charging extra for BIN and 10-day durations). 

Quote:2006 counts fell to 2004 levels

The decline happened about the same time store inventory was included in the main search so I'm sure most of them were just moved from auction to store but...

Google Base has almost 18 million items in the product category.  I'd like to know where they came from (I know, many most of them are duplicates of web site or ebay listings) but I'm sure some of them are items that were moved from other venues to Base.

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2006 counts fell to 2004 levels  :blinkie:
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Is it just a coincidence that the 2004 slogan "the power of all of us" is back? 

http://pages.ebay.com/ebaylive/  http://www.ebaydevcon.com/