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Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by blairbeckwith »

greglindahl wrote: post #21
nategri wrote: post #3

So weird. Literally cannot remember if I've ever bought something from Shopify.

Tesla uses Shopify to sell cars -- I'd bet that just a few relatively large companies are the cause of that huge revenue number. Doubly so if eBay only reports their actual cut of sales as revenue instead of the entire sale price.

Tesla doesn't actually use Shopify to sell cars – they sell merch and some parts through Shopify, IIRC.

Your point stands that Shopify's largest merchants make up a huge proportion of GMV, but it's not because of big ticket items like cars.

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by paulpauper »

Shopify seems like something that should have been done 15 years ago. It is just a website that allows anyone to set up a digital storefront for a monthly fee. The fee part is the most lucrative. Most people set up the store and sell little or nothing and forget to cancel , so Shopify keeps printing $ from the recurring subs, much like AOL does.

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by jonknee »

paulpauper wrote: post #32

Shopify seems like something that should have been done 15 years ago. It is just a website that allows anyone to set up a digital storefront for a monthly fee. The fee part is the most lucrative. Most people set up the store and sell little or nothing and forget to cancel , so Shopify keeps printing $ from the recurring subs, much like AOL does.

This very website exists because this very thing was done 25 years ago!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by bscphil »

nikanj wrote: post #26

I have a bunch of old camera gear that I'd like to sell. I've been led to believe that on eBay, I'll very likely get scammed, and the customer support always sides with the scammer. This doesn't concern the massive drop shippers operating 10k transactions per month, as they can easily eat the cost of the occasional scammer. It is very effective deterrent against casual sellers like me, though. Ebay started out as "Ya…

The only time I ever tried to sell some stuff on Ebay, I had a very weird experience. I put it up for auction with a minimum, and a week later someone won the auction at what I thought was a decent price. Then... they deleted their account instead of paying for the item. I raised the issue with Ebay, and they gave me a credit in the amount I had paid for the listing. So I listed it again, and someone won the auction once again ... and the same thing happened! They deleted their entire Ebay account instead of paying for the item they presumably had wanted to purchase.

At that point I gave up. I think I have $14 in Ebay seller credit still in my account from 10 years ago. My guess is that there was some kind of malfunction or someone was using a bot to bid on particular products. Weird experience. I've moved to selling stuff on Craigslist, and never had a problem with a sale.

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by unvs »

I've built some stores for clients with Shopify's Slate[1] tool, which was a better dev experience than I had expected. I was pretty surprised and disappointed to see that they put it in "low maintenance" mode while still in beta. Hope they'll pick it up again soon.

[1] https://github.com/Shopify/slate

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by skinnymuch »

tempsy wrote: post #8

Shopify's stock has been on an incredible tear. I think it's 3x'd since the beginning of the year? And 10x'd in maybe 2.

You could’ve quickly and easily checked. Not 3x with the price drop in past month or two. And 10x would be over 3 years ago. 2 years ago is close to 3x to 4x.

Re: Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

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Post by spinach »

nikanj wrote: post #26

I have a bunch of old camera gear that I'd like to sell. I've been led to believe that on eBay, I'll very likely get scammed, and the customer support always sides with the scammer. This doesn't concern the massive drop shippers operating 10k transactions per month, as they can easily eat the cost of the occasional scammer. It is very effective deterrent against casual sellers like me, though. Ebay started out as "Ya…

You could try in person selling like on kijiji, I've sold a fair bit of stuff on there with no problem. I just meet in a public place (a nearby storefront) for safety.
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