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Mercari is starting to grow in the States but it's having a hard time going against eBay. I tried it out for my store and got like no traction, listed the same

Mercari is starting to grow in the States but it's having a hard time going against eBay. I tried it out for my store and got like no traction, listed the same thing on eBay and they sold pretty much instantly. I'd love to see it really take off here as a competitor to eBay would be great.

matthewfcarlson 7y ago
In the Seattle area, offer up has been taking off and has so far been much better than Facebook marketplace about lowballing. Generally things sell quickly and buyers are much more serious.
- dawnerd 7y ago
  Do they do shipments or is it still local only?
squarefoot 7y ago
Ebay started using not so nice tactics to cash on the number of sales by automatically enabling the "Make offer" option, no matter if disabled by the seller, at every posting renewal at ridiculous prices, often half or less than half the initial price, so if I have say 20 items for sale at already a very convenient price, they will renew with the make offer option enabled (regardless if I explicitly disabled it) at half or less that price which of course mean I'll receive loads of offers at prices that sometimes won't ever cover the shipping. I can understand their motives: more sales = more sales fees, but that's not fair at all. As of today I haven't found a way to keep the option disabled and have to get online in time at every renewal and disable the option on all items, or refuse all offers and politely contact the users explaining the reason. This makes me angry; although I have been an extremely happy Ebay user for over a decade, we badly need other options because the lack of competition is giving them too much power. Admittedly however, Ebay works well enough so far, which is why it would be really hard to compete against them.
- dawnerd 7y ago
  Seems like a bug, I've seen some people complain but others not have it happen, myself included. But that's kinda been the theme for them recently, so much stuff has been broken, and they end up just pushing the sellers for it through either automatically siding with the buyer or higher fees. Their recent sales tax thing is getting really annoying for bookkeeping.
  - squarefoot 7y ago
    I wish it was a bug; I reported this in a recent survey but neither the problem was solved (very likely one binary field in a database) nor I was contacted for an explanation.

matthewfcarlson 7y ago

In the Seattle area, offer up has been taking off and has so far been much better than Facebook marketplace about lowballing. Generally things sell quickly and buyers are much more serious.

dawnerd 7y ago
Do they do shipments or is it still local only?

squarefoot 7y ago

Ebay started using not so nice tactics to cash on the number of sales by automatically enabling the "Make offer" option, no matter if disabled by the seller, at every posting renewal at ridiculous prices, often half or less than half the initial price, so if I have say 20 items for sale at already a very convenient price, they will renew with the make offer option enabled (regardless if I explicitly disabled it) at half or less that price which of course mean I'll receive loads of offers at prices that sometimes won't ever cover the shipping. I can understand their motives: more sales = more sales fees, but that's not fair at all. As of today I haven't found a way to keep the option disabled and have to get online in time at every renewal and disable the option on all items, or refuse all offers and politely contact the users explaining the reason. This makes me angry; although I have been an extremely happy Ebay user for over a decade, we badly need other options because the lack of competition is giving them too much power. Admittedly however, Ebay works well enough so far, which is why it would be really hard to compete against them.

dawnerd 7y ago
Seems like a bug, I've seen some people complain but others not have it happen, myself included. But that's kinda been the theme for them recently, so much stuff has been broken, and they end up just pushing the sellers for it through either automatically siding with the buyer or higher fees. Their recent sales tax thing is getting really annoying for bookkeeping.
- squarefoot 7y ago
  I wish it was a bug; I reported this in a recent survey but neither the problem was solved (very likely one binary field in a database) nor I was contacted for an explanation.