eBay forum..

ebay has been mentioned over 2000 times on WebmasterWorld..

[blaze]

Any chance of having an ebay forum?

[Brett_Tabke]

The reason we have resisted, is that Ebay tends to be an ecommerce topic and not a *webmaster* topic.

Can you reconcile the two?

[bpresent]

[snip] is for sale - but there may be copyright implications :)

I love ebay, but about the only thing it has to do with being a webmaster (as far as I see it) is smart ways of getting links to your dotcom shop without offending the powers at be (ie. without being struck off). That and writing html I suppose. (PayPal is another thing altogether.)

[edited by: Hawkgirl at 3:31 am (utc) on June 22, 2004]
[edit reason] no specifics, please [/edit]

[Brett_Tabke]

There is also leveraging your assets on ebay via your website.

[bpresent]

I guess there's also cases where people want to arrange a buy-it-now sale through the ebay 'safe harbor' process as well as 'keep you honest' with the threat of potential negative feedback. I have 200+, nothing too grand, but with all positives and a domain name very closely related my ebay userid so I'm kind of interested in keeping it clean (not that my shop's up and running yet :( - another work in progress).

[mfishy]

ebay can be a webmaster topic as there are thousands earning their living exclusively through selling on ebay. Funny this came up as I was thinking about it yesterday - how it would be nice if there was a forum where there was useful information about promoting through ebay (not get rich e-books).

Eebay is quite interesting. Not only the fact that it is such a wildly successful dotcom but also that it is like it's own self contained economy with millions of buyers and sellers.

[Sports Workout]

Brett -
If you need a moderator for an eBay forum, i'm your man.

Gold Powerseller here, been full-time on eBay since 1999. Not only that, but have made quite a few friends over there that would move their chatter from eBay's forums to WW:0

Zack

[Brett_Tabke]

[webmasterworld.com...]

Moderator applications generally start to be received at the 500 post level and get serious around the 750 consideration. We also track:

msgs per day.
bytes per post.
spawn average.
PostThread (SM) rank.
And two other metrics I won't talk about in public...

[Sports Workout]

Brett -
If they only had a post-count on my posts on the ebay boards!
Zack

[Leosghost]

Ebay has too many "local variants " in it's policies etc..to make a valid forum ..

Where I am there are whole categories that are access blocked by the it with ISPs ..not just nazi stuff either loads more ..

also prices for placing ads in categories vary so much too ...some things that will cost you a dollar in the USA to place can cost me upto 25$...

I hear all the reasons for ..but it would be like if google charged adwords depending on where you lived and also decided what you could run campaigns on or which pages you could see ( yeah I know Isp's do that anyway but you know what I mean ..I hope! ) ...I don't see how we could compare experiences if the base experience isn't the same ..

<other metrics ..subtle>
<I always tell my kid .."I think you're ready ..I'll ask you..you say you're ready ..you probably aint"..>

[anallawalla]

I think the Affiliate-related forum can handle eBay/Amazon and other aff sites, just as the Business-related one can handle using eBay to promote one's business.

[Sports Workout]

Annawalla,
Then I guess the question on my mind is:

WHY IS THERE AN ENTIRE FORUM DEDICATED TO FROOGLE?

Aside from WW's fascination with anything google (I totally understand), I see no reason to have an entire forum dedication to froogle, which has proven to result is sparse, if any sales. On the other hand, here is ebay, an entirely web-based site, and i havent seen a product yet to sell here!

just my $.02

Zack (not Shak!)