Another of eBay's Top Sellers Bites the Dust: Parrothead88, FB of 74,500 closes
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05-13-2006, 09:58 PM,
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Re: Another of eBay's Top Sellers Bites the Dust: Parrothead88, FB of 74,500 closes
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05-15-2006, 03:59 PM,
Post: #42
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Re: Another of eBay's Top Sellers Bites the Dust: Parrothead88, FB of 74,500 closes
More discussion on parrothead's fate at OTWA:
http://www.otwa.com/community/showthread.php?t=40563 Apparently, there was some relatively recent buyout?? or joining?? of his company and another. The discussion wonders if that could be the cause.
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05-15-2006, 04:57 PM,
Post: #43
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Re: Another of eBay's Top Sellers Bites the Dust: Parrothead88, FB of 74,500 closes
wouldn't surprise me if his supplier raised it's prices to them and them a few months later bought them out to get thier customers.
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05-16-2006, 01:25 PM,
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Re: Another of eBay's Top Sellers Bites the Dust: Parrothead88, FB of 74,500 closes
Maybe we will hear the facts some day.
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05-22-2006, 03:49 PM,
Post: #45
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Re: Another of eBay's Top Sellers Bites the Dust: Parrothead88, FB of 74,500 closes
mewsicmama at The Ross Show was able to get through to his old customer service line. Her quote about what she heard:
[quote]I called his local number earlier today, and posted about it on OTWA. There is now a female voice recording apologizing that they have been unexpectedly forced to close their store, thanking all their loyal customers, and advising they are working to send out all backlogged orders. (paraphrased)
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05-22-2006, 08:07 PM,
Post: #46
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Re: Another of eBay's Top Sellers Bites the Dust: Parrothead88, FB of 74,500 closes
There's no telling what happened to him. :-\
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05-22-2006, 08:17 PM,
Post: #47
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Re: Another of eBay's Top Sellers Bites the Dust: Parrothead88, FB of 74,500 clo
[quote author=xppman link=topic=3718.msg14048#msg14048 date=1147712245]
wouldn't surprise me if his supplier raised it's prices to them and them a few months later bought them out to get thier customers. [/quote] Something similar happened to my former shipping supplier shippingsupply.com. She was an amazing seller (FB 45,000, 99.9% positive), fast shipping, great communications, etc but she made the really bad decision to grow her business by merging with a shipping supply distributor who basically let customer service slip. Rather than letting her reputation and customer service go down the drain, she decided to shut down the business and have her account closed (NARU'd) last Summer. Her story is on her about me page: http://members.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=shippingsupply.com
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05-22-2006, 10:43 PM,
Post: #48
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Re: Another of eBay's Top Sellers Bites the Dust: Parrothead88, FB of 74,500 closes
I've seen it with other drop shippers / wholesale supplier types too.
They monitor your sales and see you are getting substantially more for the product than they are charging you so they let the customer service "slip" to you the retailer. (i.e. drop ship SLOW for you to your customers and / or start raising their prices to you on the drop of a hat). :blinkie: Seems many are getting in the retail market direct and are able to raise their prices and sell to the public themselves and realize more profits for themselves. Happens all the time. It truly is dog eat dog out here. In my search for wholesalers / drop shippers seems the field of choices is all but about dried up and was already heading this way several years ago. Rather than letting my reputation and customer service go down the drain, I decided to design, produce and market my own wares as opposed to try and keep selling other's products for an ever decreasing amount of profit to ME. Now I get inquiries asking if I would drop ship for others.
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05-23-2006, 05:03 AM,
Post: #49
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Re: Another of eBay's Top Sellers Bites the Dust: Parrothead88, FB of 74,500 closes
I bought some mailers from them about 2 months ago. $12. postpaid for 100 size 000 (just right for jewelry). I wondered how they did that.
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05-23-2006, 05:29 PM,
Post: #50
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Re: Another of eBay's Top Sellers Bites the Dust: Parrothead88, FB of 74,500 closes
Maybe they just realized they were losing their butts. ???
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