Recommend free WebStore auction site as Ebay alternative

[stendek]

Tired of Ebay fees? Tired of having Ebay dictate to you how you must sell your items? Tired of being forced to use Ebay owned PayPal? Tired of low profit margins? Want a totally free auction site with no fees in the spirit of how Ebay used to be? Give WebStore a try. I guarantee free listings with no fees of any kind. Join for free. Buy free. Sell free. Live free!

My personal site can be found here:

http://www.webstore.com/80431,owner_id,other_items (http://www.webstore.com/80431,owner_id,other_items)

Hope to see you soon. God bless.

[Hepcat]

What kind of poll is this? Where are the "None of the Above" or "Other" options?

These are the things that bother me about Ebay:

1. Nothing is done to prevent sniping. Ebay could, for example, restrict bidding in the final thirty minutes to only those bidders who have bid previously. Or any bidder that places a bid in the last thirty minutes must pay his maximum bid if it turns out to be the winning bid.

2. Hidden reserves when there is also a provision for minimum bids. If a certain amount is the minimum a seller will accept, he should say so.

3. Ebay disclosing a bidder's maximum bid to sellers in reserve auctions when the reserve has not been met. The seller has no right to know what the top bidder was willing to pay! Allowing this enables phishing on the part of sellers to maximize the price they receive for an item.

4. Lack of policing/action on shill bidding.

I can't believe you left out every single one of my concerns/annoyances.

:mad:

[toz1960]

Response:

1.This would surely eliminate me from bidding as most,no All my bids are put in at less than a minute less.But I do see your point.Also I don't buy many books that would be shilled on anyway

2.Seems like this is a hold over from earlier days on ebay,when it was a much freer market place and reserves had their place.It's kinda' pointless now and they have never gotten around to eliminating it.Maybe because some people use it and ebay still gets paid for it.

3.I don't quite understand the first part.Do the seller's really know that?

4.All too true.There are a lot of things ebay turns a blind eye to.You can bet it they did something about this and other things it would take some coins out of their coffers.

[Hepcat]

3.I don't quite understand the first part.Do the seller's really know that?


3. If the reserve price is not met in a reserve price auction, the seller is made aware of the top bid that was made. That bidder can then be offered the opportunity by the seller to buy the item at that maximum price the bidder was willing to pay.

:eek:

[toz1960]

3. If the reserve price is not met in a reserve price auction, the seller is made aware of the top bid that was made. That bidder can then be offered the opportunity by the seller to buy the item at that maximum price the bidder was willing to pay.

:eek:
Okay.I see that.Was thinking along another line.In a reserve I may put in my max bid,say $100 but the next highest may be only $50 so mine would only show one increment above that,which is what the seller would see,not my max bid,which was what I was thinking about.

[stendek]

Thanks for response. Ebay started out correctly. May still be fine for high volume dealers but not for low end sellers like me. First out is list fee then final fee for successful sale. Ebay controls postal charges with strict limits. Comic listed at 99 cents minus two fees plus restrictive Ebay postal charge equates to what? A few pennies in profit? Do not get902 me started on listed items that never seem to move. Not out to make millions of dollars but do not want to give items away. Santa Claus I am not. 901Sigh.