[meteorite-list] Meteorite Auction Days Numbered?

[MexicoDoug]

Any corrections?:

Clearly a lot more going on in eBay with the international viewing of 
auction than many of us were aware.  I searched a bit and information 
is all cock-eyed, but this seems to be the gist of it:

* If you list on eBay.com, you have no problem and anyone browsing 
eBay.com can find your stuff as always, internationally, there are no 
fees.  Ebay has not charged any international visibility fees for this 
- before or now.

* Some countries have their own sites, a more tailored interface for 
citizens.  Some listings mysteriously from the ebay.com site appear 
there at no fee, usually when the endemic offering is small, while 
others don't.  So if you want to appear in the ebay.de or the ebay.it, 
ebay.ct, the ebay.pt site, etc., you have the option in the .com site 
of paying a fee per additional market to guarantee you will appear - if 
you really think it is worth it to appear there in the first place, 
remembering people searching ebay.com will see you and you are just 
trying to go the extra painful mile (km?) to put you name to some 
country.

* Each of those national market sites has a database of blacklisted 
words designed to protect the site; however, a lot gets lost in machine 
auditing and listings are getting the international visibility boot, 
which no human can understand and address by trial and error.  So what 
is happening lately defies explanation and has been called a bug by 
some as eBay tries to rework the problems in its new can of stinking 
sardines it opened and remerge things to some hybrid of what they were 
and the present situation.  It seems to be a hot potato at the moment 
that will improve by necessity.

* Some countries, especially in the UK which has a dual 
European/American commercial base, have been paying an additional fee 
to be visible in other countries, for longer than others depending 
where eBay stuck its fingers first.

* eBay seems to have"opened a stinking can of sardines" with 
international visibility and is trying to migrate back to a more 
universal platform, free, especially with the US, Canada and Australia 
in one block, possibly also the UK included.  The way they are 
controlling what appears where is by making sure you have indicated 
automatically the shipping cost to whereverland.

* People contacting eBay customer service have been very frustrated and 
not gotten many concrete reasons, more often than not misleading advice 
is received.

* The alternative on eBay is just to use the ebay.com site and hope 
your customers worldwide do to.  This is a prettydecent for in 
meteorites.  If not, you can create a second seller ID on your favorite 
international site and isolate your international feedback, which can 
be a good idea considering the issues that crop up with customs and 
shipping that are beyond your control which can cause buyers' 
frustration.

Kindest wishes
Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Hupé <gmhupe at centurylink.net>
To: Gary Fujihara <fujmon at mac.com>; JoshuaTreeMuseum 
<joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com>
Cc: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Fri, Sep 30, 2011 3:27 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Auction Days Numbered?


I still don't understand their objection to "scale cube"...

Best Regards,
Greg

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Fujihara
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 2:24 PM
To: JoshuaTreeMuseum
Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Auction Days Numbered?

Ebay has been charging additional fees for international site 
visibility for
over a year now, but have been getting very picky about what one states 
in
an item description - this started happening less than two weeks ago.

gary

On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:20 AM, JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote:

> I don't think it's a secret that eBay is going to start charging 
extra for
> international auctions. I seem to recall getting an email from them a
> month or so ago saying that they were going to do this.
>
> Phil Whitmer
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