EBay Valet

#1

Post by zengr » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 6:05 AM UTC

EBay Valet
ebay.com

Re: EBay Valet

#2

Post by ps4fanboy » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 6:28 AM UTC

ebay doing its hardest to be like amazon, while their actual auction experience is getting worse and worse.

Re: EBay Valet

#3

Post by machbio » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 6:30 AM UTC

hardly any innovative things come out of ebay, nice to see something new... can other sellers become valet ? or is it the ebay itself serving as valet ?

Re: EBay Valet

#4

Post by vijayaggarwal » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 6:31 AM UTC

Will it not create conflict of interests? On one side, eBay should make their listing and selling processes as easy as possible for individuals, and on the other side keeping them somewhat difficult will promote Valet service.

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#5

Post by thaumasiotes » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 6:31 AM UTC

ps4fanboy wrote: post #2

ebay doing its hardest to be like amazon, while their actual auction experience is getting worse and worse.

They're doing that on purpose. I think a major turning point was discovering that "buy it now" auctions (i.e. normal, fixed-price sales) were massively more popular than auction auctions.

Re: EBay Valet

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Post by jychang » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 6:32 AM UTC

vijayaggarwal wrote: post #4

Will it not create conflict of interests? On one side, eBay should make their listing and selling processes as easy as possible for individuals, and on the other side keeping them somewhat difficult will promote Valet service.

It would not be a conflict of interest if the Valet service does not generate more profit per sale after everything is factored in.

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#7

Post by jakozaur » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 6:33 AM UTC

Isn't amazon already doing something similar with "warehouse deals" and "fullified by Amazon?

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Post by aaronbrethorst » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 6:38 AM UTC

jakozaur wrote: post #7

Isn't amazon already doing something similar with "warehouse deals" and "fullified by Amazon?

Warehouse is all Amazon returns, AFAIK. But you can do used sales off of the main purchase page, and mail in your stuff to have it Fulfilled by Amazon. I've been looking into this quite a bit lately since I have about $7,000 of Canon gear to sell off.

I think I'll stick with Amazon. Ebay's 30% seems ridiculously steep.

Re: EBay Valet

#9

Post by dsplatonov » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 6:42 AM UTC

"If you send in something that valets can't sell, there's a return fee to have it sent back to you." Not very good for me if i send a big amount of items

Re: EBay Valet

#10

Post by aniketpant » Fri, Jun 20, 2014, 6:48 AM UTC

Interesting idea. Would love to see how it works out for them!