Released on: 10, August 2006
, Author: Google we need an auction site
, Audience: Internet related
An online group of eBay merchants called "Google we need anauction site." Has been growing rapidly over the past few days. Their newly formedGoogle group can be found online at: http://groups.google.com/group /auctionplease
The description of the group reads "We are eBay store owners who have been"dismissed" by eBay through extreme rate hikes. We are searching everywhere for anew "home" and Google is the ONLY name on the Internet which we feel would betotally trustworthy and would actually get auction traffic and get it quickly."
This is a new twist on the usual merchant reaction to an eBay price increase.Following past price increases, eBay sellers would try to rally support foralternate auction venues such as Yahoo! auctions, only to discover that there waslittle traffic and fewer sales. Each of these calls to rebellion although wellintentioned were not financially viable for sellers. After many price increases,eBay still remains the most popular on-line auction site.
In this latest incarnation of rebellious eBayers, sellers are not looking for anexisting online auction system to adopt, they are asking Google to build them one.
The recent price increases for sellers at eBay stores and inventory saturationpushing down prices in many merchandise categories has a growing number of die-hardeBay merchants looking for alternate on-line venues to sell their wares. In recentyears eBay has tried to quell this exodus by offering their own "alternate" salesvenues such as eBay stores, eBay express and Half.com. eBay management openlyencouraged sellers to adopt these new venues.
The "success" of eBay stores for sellers has drawn sales and merchandise away fromeBay's core auction business. eBay's reaction has been to increase store fees todrive both merchants and customers back to their core auction business. In effect,eBay is simultaneously encouraging sellers to open an eBay store while at the sametime discouraging them from listing merchandise by increasing their listing fees.These mixed signals have left many sellers confused and desperate for a place tosell their merchandise outside of eBay.
It's clear to many disgruntled eBay sellers that Google with it's trusted brand nameand high Internet traffic is the only company online capable of offering a viablealternative to eBay. In the eyes of many on-line merchants, eBay is no longer thee-commerce company that can do no wrong. While eBay flounders and attempts tounderstand how to compete against itself, perhaps there is indeed an opportunity forGoogle to adopt their moniker of "Do no wrong." to online auctions.
Source: Express-Press-Release.com
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