Alternative auctions
OK, first I’ve heard of it, and it starts in a little over an hour.
Sellers — apparently many sellers (including PowerSellers) — are going to be boycotting eBay due to huge rate hikes and questionable changes to the feedback system. The rate hikes could be as much as 67%, according to analysis I have read.
Power Sellers Unite is a site with much detail about the eBay boycott.
It looks like the most tenable competitor right now is iOffer. They seem grassroots, kind of craigslist-meets-eBay, and have nifty tools to transfer your feedback and items. I haven’t gone through the steps yet.
Anyone else involved? Anyone boycotting, or not boycotting? Any other suggestions of sites on which to list? Any idea of what to do with the listings I currently have running? Discuss!
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February 17th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Hmm, maybe iOffer are not really ready to handle the increased volume? I’m exploring, and have to refresh many pages four to five times. I want to learn more about them; I hope they let me.
February 17th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Yags. Everything at iOffer so far looks really amateurish. Am I right to understand that the main focus is swapping, not selling?
The search results don’t render properly in Firefox in Linux (they do on eBay). The people writing the help documentation write “perspective” when they mean “prospective”. And that bloody “page not loading” bit.
February 17th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
SJ Mercury News on the topic of the boycott.