Home
Home

Directory
Directory

Articles
Internet News
Security News
Ecommerce News
Domain News

Site Tools
Site Speed Test
Keyword Research
Resolve Hostname
DNS Tools
Register Domains
Affiliate Programs
Open Source

Shopping Carts
Cart Reviews
SSL Certificates

Enter your email address to subscribe to our updates:

Delivered by FeedBurner


Venue Charts
Channel Traffic Rankings
OAI Stock Quotes and Charts
eBay's Worst Feedback

Forum
Forum Home
TulipTools News
Advertising
Blogging
Computer Hardware
Domain Names
Ecommerce
Financing
Int'l Trading
Graphics and HTML
Internet Access
Legal Issues
Internet Business
Auction Sites
Classified Ad Sites
Fixed Price Venues
Operating Systems
Programming
Search Engines
Internet Security
Software
Web Hosting
Webmaster Issues
Reviews
Announcements
Off Topic Discussion

Web Hosting
TulipHosting

Domain Names
TulipDomains

Web Stats
TulipStats

Forum Rules
Forum Rules
Privacy Policy

Site Map
Forum Sitemap
Sitemap Topics




Directory| Forums| Internet News|Cart Reviews| DNS Tools| Keyword Research| Site Speed Test| Security| | Domain Marketplace| Domain Blog
TulipTools Internet Business Owners and Online Sellers Community
  • Home
  • Search
  • Member List
  • Calendar
Hello There, Guest! Login Register
TulipTools Internet Business Owners and Online Sellers Community › Online Auction Industry, B2B Trading Sites, Classified Ad Sites, Fixed Price Venues, and Malls › Online Auction Industry Discussion › Auction Sites › eBay v
1 2 3 4 5 … 78 Next »

PeSA Committee Chair for Events www.wegotthebeats.com Bites the Dust

  
Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Threaded Mode | Linear Mode
PeSA Committee Chair for Events www.wegotthebeats.com Bites the Dust
04-20-2006, 05:50 PM,
Post: #1
amy Offline
Super Moderator
******
Posts: 3,473
Likes Given: 0
Likes Received: 1 in 1 posts
Joined: Mar 2005
Reputation: 0
PeSA Committee Chair for Events www.wegotthebeats.com Bites the Dust
Another top ranking PeSA member bites the dust leaving a string of buyers complaining they never received what they paid for.  PeSA's Committee Chair for Events www.wegotthebeats.com is apparently history although his eBay store is still open.  The last Google cach page of his web site is from late January.

www.wegotthebeats.com was featured in the book eBay Powerseller Secrets by AuctionByteMe contributors Debra and Brad Schepp.  Also featured in the book was the also out of business PeSA member/CEO of Ethical Technologies Scott Samuel.  Don't trip over each other rushing out to buy the book. Smile

Other top PeSA members who couldn't make it on eBay and went out of business in the past 2 months  include PeSA board of Directors member Sell2All who filed for Chapter 7 earlier this year after making $8 million and spending $9.5 million doing it, and eBay's former #1 seller GlacierBayDVD whose 268,000 feedback rating on eBay masked his worst possible F rating by the Los Angeles BBB.

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=www.wegotthebeats.com

related topics:
PeSA Director Sell2All Files for Bankruptcy, Wrote Book on Getting Rich On eBay
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...026.0.html
PeSA: eBay's Former #1 Seller NARU'd and a 5th Member Reaches 10,000 neg Club
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...ml#msg8996


Blog
Like Post Reply
[+]
04-20-2006, 05:57 PM,
Post: #2
misteroriginal Offline
Plum Devotee
******
Posts: 589
Likes Given: 0
Likes Received: 0 in 0 posts
Joined: Sep 2005
Reputation: 0
Re: PeSA Committee Chair for Events www.wegotthebeats.com Bites the Dust
Vital thinks it was 'cuz they hired a web designer. Can someone break it to her gently that not all web people are as evil as the evil MrO?
Like Post Reply
[+]
04-20-2006, 06:10 PM,
Post: #3
amy Offline
Super Moderator
******
Posts: 3,473
Likes Given: 0
Likes Received: 1 in 1 posts
Joined: Mar 2005
Reputation: 0
Re: PeSA Committee Chair for Events www.wegotthebeats.com Bites the Dust
Quote:Vital thinks it was 'cuz they hired a web designer.

No, its because only a blithering id**t would rely on eBay for 100% of their sales if they're selling common music CDs.  Average selling prices for most items are below wholesale, and most sellers (including j.ayandmarie) operate on margins of a few pennies--if they're lucky. One bad move or one small increase in their costs and they're history.

If eBay hadn't cut fees on under 99 cent items the past 2 years a very large percentage of eBay's high volume sellers would be out of business today.
Blog
Like Post Reply
[+]
04-20-2006, 06:15 PM,
Post: #4
amy Offline
Super Moderator
******
Posts: 3,473
Likes Given: 0
Likes Received: 1 in 1 posts
Joined: Mar 2005
Reputation: 0
Re: PeSA Committee Chair for Events www.wegotthebeats.com Bites the Dust
They were BuySafe sellers so if the buyers file claims they'll get their money back.  Smile First GlacierBayDVD, now this seller--BuySafe has had to make a lot of payments to eBay buyers this year.  :Smile
Blog
Like Post Reply
[+]
04-20-2006, 07:34 PM, (This post was last modified: 04-20-2006, 07:37 PM by bargainbloodhound.)
Post: #5
bargainbloodhound Offline
Lawnmower Mouth
********
Posts: 4,372
Likes Given: 0
Likes Received: 4 in 4 posts
Joined: Jul 2005
Reputation: 0
Re: PeSA Committee Chair for Events www.wegotthebeats.com Bites the Dust
If any CD Sellers (and what I'm about to say ONLY applies to CD sellers) are lurking and reading this thread...DON'T LISTEN TO AMY!!! She's wrong! eBay is the best place for you to sell YOUR CDs.  In fact, I would advice you to sell YOUR CDs exclusively on eBay!  Put all of YOUR selling efforts into selling on eBay!  I really, really hope that ALL of you CD sellers (including all those 1 cent CD sellers at Amazon) take my advice and move ALL of YOUR inventory to eBay.  eBay is the best place for YOUR CD selling business.  Smile


*thinks, hmmm, I should post this on the Amazon boards too...maybe my ASPs at Amazon will go up if enough fools listen to this advice*
"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
Like Post Reply
[+]
04-20-2006, 10:29 PM,
Post: #6
xppman Offline
Tulip Fanatic
*******
Posts: 2,406
Likes Given: 0
Likes Received: 0 in 0 posts
Joined: Jul 2005
Reputation: 0
Re: PeSA Committee Chair for Events www.wegotthebeats.com Bites the Dust
Now your thinking BBH  Wink

eBay is the best place for all those CD sellers.

There are a lot of those "other" sellers that need to stay there too.

Like Mr O was talking about in that other thread.  Smile
.
Like Post Reply
[+]
11-08-2009, 10:08 AM,
Post: #7
wegotthebeats Offline
Tool Seeker
*
Posts: 2
Likes Given: 0
Likes Received: 0 in 0 posts
Joined: Nov 2009
Reputation: 0
Re: PeSA Committee Chair for Events www.wegotthebeats.com Bites the Dust
Wow, this was interesting to find in a google search LOL.  Hi all, I'm Tony, currently known on ebay as wegotthebeats (formerly www.wegotthebeats.com)  I changed the grandfathered username when it no longer made sense, but have maintained the same profile since 1999. Anyway, I know this is a really old topic and probably nobody cares, but I thought I should at least set the record straight.  To clear a few things up: I never "bit the dust" as so many sellers do, i.e. my business model never failed.  All those pearls of wisdom about selling cd's on ebay were...well, off.  If you would like to know the truth, here it is: I was seriously injured in mid-2005, and found myself flat on the floor for over two months - literally couldn't move, couldn't do anything, much less work.  It was very humbling, if not downright humiliating (not to mention financially devastating.)  But the way I see things, it was a good life lesson for me, and I took it as such.  Despite membership in pesa, I was (and still am) a silver powerseller with no employees.  Fortunately at that time, I had a friend who lived nearby come over to wrap up existing orders for me, and all went smoothly - until I tried to come back to work too soon in early 2006, reinjured the same thing, and this time was completely alone and could do nothing to get orders shipped.  (and incidentally, someone on my Events Committee took over as Chair, which was the least of my concerns at the time.)  As soon as I was able, I contacted every single customer and made them whole one way or another.  Many of them withdrew their feedback, some didn't, and many of them still buy from me to this day - but either way I made good on every transaction because it was the only right thing to do.  I then voluntarily took some time off and took a "regular job" until I could be sure I was in the clear physically, to avoid any such thing happening again.  Glad to say I have been back for a couple of years now, and doing well.  No hard feelings about the article.  Just know that assumptions are not always correct.  And you can always contact me directly for comment! 
Like Post Reply
[+]
11-24-2009, 04:48 PM,
Post: #8
amy Offline
Super Moderator
******
Posts: 3,473
Likes Given: 0
Likes Received: 1 in 1 posts
Joined: Mar 2005
Reputation: 0
Re: PeSA Committee Chair for Events www.wegotthebeats.com Bites the Dust
Hi Tony Smileywelcome It's good to know you're OK and were able to rebuild your business after the setback.

Quote:All those pearls of wisdom about selling cd's on ebay were...well, off.

I think the changes eBay made in the media categories fee structure have made it a much more hospitable environment for media sellers than it was when I started this thread 3 1/2 years ago.

I'm not among those who think Buy.com listing on eBay spells doom for small media sellers.  eBay sellers were already competing against Buy (and Amazon and every other media selling website out there) for shoppers' attention whether they knew it or not.

Blog
Like Post Reply
[+]
12-04-2009, 01:33 PM,
Post: #9
wegotthebeats Offline
Tool Seeker
*
Posts: 2
Likes Given: 0
Likes Received: 0 in 0 posts
Joined: Nov 2009
Reputation: 0
Re: PeSA Committee Chair for Events www.wegotthebeats.com Bites the Dust
Hi Amy - thanks.  And you're right, the listing fee structure has helped.  It basically time-warped us back to 2002 or so (with the exception of the FVF's which are insane IMO.  Amazon charges 15% too, but that includes payment processing, whereas paypal is another separate fee here.)

I think when CD's really go away, they'll go quickly, like the VHS tape did (one big chain announced they would stop carrying them, then another and another...)

I don't think the download market has been anywhere near maximized yet, and I think people of my age and older (30s 40s) are somewhat more resistant to it.  I like to download something once in a while just to hear it for a particular reason, but I also like to own things, have "the official version," give gifts, etc.  People have been able to copy things for a long time without completely taking down the hard-goods market.

I also cater to the collector and out of print market, and they MUST have the original packaging, the front and back inserts in good shape, etc. - something itunes can't provide, and a market ebay is built for.

The biggest threat, as far as new releases go, is actually Amazon.  Unlike ebay, Amazon directly competes with their sellers.  They sell new releases at or below my wholesale cost (with free shipping, no less!)  Sometimes I actually use Amazon as a wholesaler to re-sell on ebay.  (Ssshh...insider tip lol.)  But I didn't even bother with new releases until very recently.  (Thank you, Lady Gaga!)

Hope everyone is having a stellar holiday selling (and buying) season.

Tony
Like Post Reply
[+]
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »




Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  PeSA Statement on eBay mandy 2 2,575 10-04-2008, 01:12 AM
Last Post: amy
  Ex PESA n's R US: Internet Merchants Association formed by ex PeSA members bargainbloodhound 224 62,331 07-09-2008, 11:54 PM
Last Post: BellisimaJ.
  Effective Immediately, All eBay Powersellers Qualify For PeSA mandy 2 2,602 03-16-2008, 05:16 PM
Last Post: BellisimaJ.
  UK eBay Drop-off Business Auctioning4u Bites the Dust mandy 0 1,772 02-04-2008, 10:19 AM
Last Post: mandy
  10 Year ebay Veteran with 60,000+ FB bites the dust FiberGuy 3 2,762 07-07-2007, 06:36 PM
Last Post: sneakymagenta
  PeSA issues statement criticizing eBay website and management mandy 0 2,138 06-15-2007, 11:28 AM
Last Post: mandy
  BidSage Bites the Dust - Anyone Recommend Snipe software? FiberGuy 2 2,358 11-04-2006, 09:12 PM
Last Post: DecorativeDishes
  Another Ebay Seller Bites the Dust BellisimaJ. 4 3,149 10-04-2006, 03:37 PM
Last Post: BellisimaJ.
  See How Much Pompous Jay and Other PeSA Members Sold In the Last Month amy 20 11,024 10-03-2006, 06:15 PM
Last Post: Anita
  PeSAsh.IT News: PeSA Summit 2006 September 20-22 2006 San Francisco CA mandy 10 5,512 09-26-2006, 01:26 AM
Last Post: stardust

  • View a Printable Version
  • Send this Thread to a Friend
  • Subscribe to this thread
Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)
  • Contact Us
  • TulipTools Internet Business Owners and Online Sellers Community
  • Return to Top
  • Lite (Archive) Mode
  • RSS Syndication
  • Help
Current time: 06-19-2025, 07:04 AM Powered By MyBB, © 2002-2025 MyBB Group. Theme created by Justin S.
powered by Apache

powered by Linuxpowered by CentOS

Copyright 2000-2013 TulipTools.com. All rights reserved.