Buy.com launches Marketplace program for 3rd party sellers
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05-21-2008, 04:21 PM,
(This post was last modified: 05-21-2008, 04:24 PM by amy.)
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Re: Buy.com launches Marketplace program for 3rd party sellers
Positive: the seller with the lowest price gets the buy box on the item page which is better than on Amazon where Amazon is always listed as the seller on the listing page and you have to click on a link to see offerings by 3P sellers.
Positive: far fewer competitors than on Amazon. Negative: the number of SKU's in their CD catalog is only a fraction of the number of titles Amazon offers. I've yet to explore the DVD and consumer electronics categories to see if they suffer from the same limitation. |
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01-27-2009, 10:03 AM,
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Re: Buy.com launches Marketplace program for 3rd party sellers
TT member #278 lands a new job.
Randy gets a day job Wrote:On Tuesday, January 27, I begin a full-time consulting arrangement with Buy.com as their Merchant Evangelist. full announcement: http://www.myblogutopia.com/2009/01/rand...y-job.html |
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01-27-2009, 02:32 PM,
(This post was last modified: 01-27-2009, 02:35 PM by xwpopper.)
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Re: Buy.com launches Marketplace program for 3rd party sellers
[quote author=mandy link=topic=17626.msg73896#msg73896 date=1233050636]
TT member #278 lands a new job. Randy gets a day job Wrote:On Tuesday, January 27, I begin a full-time consulting arrangement with Buy.com as their Merchant Evangelist. full announcement: http://www.myblogutopia.com/2009/01/rand...y-job.html [/quote] Will he will be working hard to convince sellers to try Bonanzle anymore? In all seriousness though, he has plenty of experience as a merchant, although not with eBay for nearly 4 years, so his liaison position may work well. Just curious though, how will he lure new merchants to a site that operates one of the largest stores on eBay?
"Listen up Mother****er. Try that bulls*** here and I will hand you and your head in a basket"
- Ray Romeo's alter ego Andrew Pittino responding when I signed up a new account on Wagglepop to verify the non-existence of a way to opt out of his sharing my information with third parties. |
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01-27-2009, 04:59 PM,
(This post was last modified: 01-27-2009, 05:10 PM by bargainbloodhound.)
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Quote:how will he lure new merchants to a site that operates one of the largest stores on eBay? Buy only accepts businesses with tax IDs which eliminates 90% of OAI forum posters so Buy's eBay store probably won't even be a factor. The sellers whose business decisions are primarily based on emotion ("I hate eBay/I hate companies that help (or benefit from) eBay", "I joined site X because it's fun") probably don't meet the requirements to join. C2C (aka P2P) sellers (the average PSU seller) might regard Buy's eBay store as a huge strike against it, but B2C sellers are unlikely to care about it.
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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01-27-2009, 08:21 PM,
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Re: Buy.com launches Marketplace program for 3rd party sellers
I can think of 4,126,168 reasons why he shouldn't have any trouble getting merchants to add Buy Marketplace as a channel.
Or put another way, Buy's December traffic (4.1m) was one million more than the combined total traffic of eCrater (1.3m), iOffer (1.16m), Bonanzle (187k), Blujay (156k), AtomicMall (69k), Wigix (66k), Plunderhere (37k), Wagglepop (33k), OnlineAuction (61k), ePier (39k), Silkfair (31k), Bid-alot (8k), Usiff (7.5k), Alsoshop (7k), Wensy (7k), AuctionQuests (5.3k), YourHighBid (4.5k), Auctions8.com (4k), HiBidder (3.2k) |
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03-05-2010, 02:53 AM,
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Re: Buy.com launches Marketplace program for 3rd party sellers
Quote:Buy.com reported 146% year-over-year sales growth for its retail Marketplace, which currently has more than 11.5 million product listings from thousands of third-party sellers. Buy.com's Marketplace comprised 46% of orders in the fourth quarter of 2009 and more than 50 percent of orders in the first quarter to date. http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y10/m03/i05/s03 Buy.com has 11.5 million 3P listings, Amazon has over 2 million 3P sellers and more listings than eBay. Sellers on both sites never have to deal with PayPal. message to (some) sellers: STFU already with all of the "eBay has a monopoly whine whine whine", "if only there was a viable alternative to eBay and PayPal whine whine whine" crap
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<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i> -KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006 <i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i> -Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008 Some people have it like that, others dont. I do. -Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008. How does an auction site get buyers? -question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008 How do I get sales? -question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009. I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information -owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009 |
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