Why does Ebay need Liveworld...

[xppman]

You know I think this is what pissess me off the most about ebay.
They and their fucking minions are nothing but fucking liars and frauds.
It's criminal I tell ya... and some times when I read their bull shit.
I want to do something criminal to them.  :

[cranky_hippie]

[quote author=amy link=topic=5199.msg23798#msg23798 date=1158695544]
I like the new ID
[/quote]

Fitting, isn't it?  

You know I think this is what pissess me off the most about ebay.
They and their boinking minions are nothing but boinking liars and frauds.
It's criminal I tell ya... and some times when I read their bull wombat poo poo.
I want to do something criminal to them.

I'm in! 

[thentavius]

One seller recommends:

1000 sellers with a $25,000 war chest, a plan of action and an attitude will make a lot more happen than our constant pleading to a deaf eBay management.

The alliance discussion again. Never happen.

I added my two cents to thread, too.

[amy]

[quote author=thentavius link=topic=5199.msg23799#msg23799 date=1158695909]
Hey--who can take the guy seriosuly, anyway? He's a fountain of cliches.[/quote]

If you want to see cliches go read the Waggleplop boards. The Poppers spend their days spouting an endless stream of cliches to each other.  :

[xppman]

Thank you god for giving me a website and the DRIVE to make it work.  :
OK... and the TT buds too.  ;D

[cranky_hippie]

The alliance discussion again. Never happen.

Too true. The poor guy keeps trying but most of these sellers don't WANT an alliance and couldn't stick together on anything if there was one. They don't even KNOW what is in their best interest. 

[BellisimaJ.]

Cranky, I do NOT see your new id???why????  are you guys talking about posting at the srg??

If so, I'm jealous, lol. ANd pouting.

[cranky_hippie]

[quote author=BellisimaJ. link=topic=5199.msg23809#msg23809 date=1158697169]
Cranky, I do NOT see your new id???why????  are you guys talking about posting at the srg??

If so, I'm jealous, lol. ANd pouting.
[/quote]

Hell, no! They have no clue who I might be on SRG. And there is nada to be jealous of...they are terminally boring for the most part. 

[BellisimaJ.]

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Wow! The first post I felt like responding to in a while! LOL

The stores format is the most successful web store presence ever built on the internet. That is nothing to sneeze at.

ROTFLMFAO at that statement Marty. Pray tell, would you be spewing that same BS line (which is total BS) if a large portion of your revenues weren't dependent on teaching eBay classes...which of course entails suckering people into signing up, and remaining on eBay?

eBay Stores rank near last in features when compared to other hosted stores platforms like Volusion, MonsterCommerce, or even ShopPal (which FYI, is cheaper than eBay Stores when you add in eBay's bloated listing/FVF fees and is almost as easy to setup as an eBay store).

Telling people to rely on eBay for the majority of their business (as you continually do) is just plain dumb Marty and definitely isn't a way to either help people build long-term online businesses or to help people shed their day jobs and become full-time online sellers. Has a total reliance on eBay allowed YOU to give up the day job--if it hasn't, why do you continually mislead people by giving advice that you know from experience doesn't work?

Most people need to hang in there.

Most people need to start diversifying beyond eBay so the next time eBay raises fees or makes a policy change (like removing SIF from search) the sting will me minimal.

If you have a website and you're using it to send people to your eBay Store to get a referral credit you're doing things backwards. You should be using eBay to drive people to your website where you don't pay listing fees or FVFs.

If you're using search engines, or Squidoo, or MySpace, to drive people to your eBay store there is absolutely no reason you can't drive those same people to your own website (despite what members of eBay's Voices program and Educator program spew on these boards)

Good post, bbh.

[BellisimaJ.]

so where did you guys post? and where is your new id???