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Don't compete with your customers... Ebay does not compete with its customers, sadly it lost the fight. Amazon knows which products are the most profitable ba

by ausjke 8y ago

Don't compete with your customers... Ebay does not compete with its customers, sadly it lost the fight. Amazon knows which products are the most profitable based on its own selling data collection, then it will make its own white-labelled version to compete, what a strategy! again, sadly, it has no competitors these days so it can do whatever it wants.

rthomas6 8y ago
Ebay is still good. You can often find what you want for much cheaper than on Amazon, often with free shipping. Shipping usually takes 3-4 days instead of 2 days, but it's almost always cheaper. Unfortunately Ebay can't get its act together regarding product listing organization and reviews, so much so that I'll often check reviews of matching products from other sites before I buy it from Ebay. There are now shady sellers on Ebay and Amazon, so the comparison is a wash in that area. They also have comparable buyer protection if a seller does something dishonest.
- s0rce 8y ago
  At least with ebay its clear what product you are getting and from which seller from the listing. There aren't a dozen counterfeit products from various sellers and SKUs lumped together with combined reviews.
jsight 8y ago
Yeah, its crazy. This would be like walking into a grocery store and seeing grocery store branded items right next to other name brands! Except that isn't crazy at all and is something that retailers have been doing for decades, in basically every segment of the retail business. And the reasons are essentially the same. The store knows what items sell well and thus knows exactly which items could be profitable when sold this way.
JoeAltmaier 8y ago
But do retailers actually 'make' anything? Those grocery store brands? Made for them by the same customers that make other brands. Its a marketing gimmick, not actually any new product coming to market, far as I can see.

by ausjke 8y ago

rthomas6 8y ago

Ebay is still good. You can often find what you want for much cheaper than on Amazon, often with free shipping. Shipping usually takes 3-4 days instead of 2 days, but it's almost always cheaper. Unfortunately Ebay can't get its act together regarding product listing organization and reviews, so much so that I'll often check reviews of matching products from other sites before I buy it from Ebay. There are now shady sellers on Ebay and Amazon, so the comparison is a wash in that area. They also have comparable buyer protection if a seller does something dishonest.

s0rce 8y ago
At least with ebay its clear what product you are getting and from which seller from the listing. There aren't a dozen counterfeit products from various sellers and SKUs lumped together with combined reviews.

jsight 8y ago

Yeah, its crazy. This would be like walking into a grocery store and seeing grocery store branded items right next to other name brands! Except that isn't crazy at all and is something that retailers have been doing for decades, in basically every segment of the retail business. And the reasons are essentially the same. The store knows what items sell well and thus knows exactly which items could be profitable when sold this way.

JoeAltmaier 8y ago

But do retailers actually 'make' anything? Those grocery store brands? Made for them by the same customers that make other brands. Its a marketing gimmick, not actually any new product coming to market, far as I can see.