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 United States
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There's a big difference between building a business and maintaining a business. My current employer is finding this out, and so now is ebay. I believe that just about everything they do right now is going to make them more vulnerable to competition, because the proper line to walk to maintain a leadership edge is a very narrow one. They're not walking it. |
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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Like Sinclair said about the way the handle paypal It is a Dinosaur before its time  |
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Valued Member
United States
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I would not close your ebay store. If you have to raise each item by $1.00 it really is not going to affect the customer to much. Since the other stores will close there will be less competition . I would try to be positive about it. I have had my own website for three years and invested over $5000 on it and I lost out big time. You have to pay the search engines to pick up your site and pay someone to create good meta tags and keywords. Then you need someone to design the site for you and then pay your credit card transactions monthly. If anyone would like to see the site I had to see how nice it was please email me. Shawn |
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Forum Mom
United States
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For the most part, we use our store to sell low-dollar collectable coins. Our profit margin on these coins is very, very low, but it gives people a chance to build their collection inexpensively. Raising the price of the coins is not the answer. Interestingly enough (and I don't know how many of you remember this), a couple of years ago ebay was trying like crazy to get people to open stores. They were offering all kinds of incentives. I think it's interesting that it only took a year for them to raise the final value fees to an outrageous 8% of the first $25. That was relatively recently. Apparently, not enough people closed their stores and now they are raising the final value fee to 10%. That goes beyond outrageous. Our ebay store will simply no longer be worth it. Don't worry though...we will still be selling (just not in our ebay store) and we are not going to need to raise our prices.  |
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Forum Dad
United States
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You have to pay the search engines to pick up your site and pay someone to create good meta tags and keywords. Then you need someone to design the site for you
Maybe you do.... I don't. ebay is history, I will let all of my customers know we'll be selling off our site and we will be fine.
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United States
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Heh. If you need to pay someone to create metadata in the Google era, you don't belong on the Internet. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Before Google came along (2000? 2001?), I had to pay a couple hundred bucks to some outfit which inserted keywords into metadata and submitted my website to the likes of Lycos, Yahoo, HotBot, AOL, AltaVista, and all the other now-wannabe search engines. I don't even know if many of them still exist. These days, I still get a few hits off MSN and Yahoo search engines, but most are off Google which indexes EVERY word on my webpages, some of which I wasn't even aware were there.
Fred
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United States
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I can understand if you have low end priced coins. That is a huge profit ebay will be making on something low priced. Superdave, If you know how to meta tag please email me. I would love to get some advice from you. Thanks , Shawn |
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United States
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Originally posted by sharktoy
I can understand if you have low end priced coins. That is a huge profit ebay will be making on something low priced. Superdave, If you know how to meta tag please email me. I would love to get some advice from you. Thanks , Shawn
Right now, Google has approximately 43% of the search engine business. Metadata means very little to Google, as they index differently, as Morgan Fred mentioned. Yahoo has about 28%, MSN, 13%, and nobody else has enough share to matter. Yahoo and MSN can be somewhat influenced by meta tags, but not like it used to be. Now. Go here for the best tutorial I know of for meta tagging: http://searchenginewatch.com/showPa...page=2167931 Second, right-click this very page, and click "View Source." Towards the top, you'll see some entries that start with "meta name=". Those are the meta tags we're talking about, and the ones on this site are well-thought-out and probably as good as they need to be to maximize their value. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Are there alternative auction sites to ebay for coins? I know there are auction galleries but those are not for the average collector. I don't know about yahoo auctions. I use to be on there but seemed it almost died a few years back when they started charging fees. |
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Belgium
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Posted 07/22/2006 5:01 pm
