[meteorite-list] Meteorite Auction Days Numbered?

From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:35:28 -0400
Message-ID: <CAKBPJW_qDmDjKvNb=DWrXj37Z=o+80mdBi0M5otR78bygt8CDw_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi Gang,

I know I sound like a broken record with this, but if ANY of you want
to free yourselves of eBay restrictions and fees, contact me off-list.
 I will gladly point you to an eCommerce hosting solution that is
"turn key" - just put your inventory in, tweak the look, and away you
go. The fees are a small fraction of eBay and there are no
restrictions.

There is a myth about eBay's traffic or "reach", but it is a myth.
The majority of eBay's millions of members could care less about
meteorites, so why take them into account when deciding which venue to
offer your wares?

My sales actually increased when I stopped selling on eBay.

There are more than enough buyers to go around for all of us and I
don't mind helping a fellow dealer improve their bottom line. It's
time to stop looking at each other as competition and start
cooperating with each other to everyone's benefit.

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 9/30/11, Greg Hup? <gmhupe at centurylink.net> wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> eBay doesn't like the text, "scale cubes", in descriptions? How can these
> two simple words create such problems for the eBay dictatorship? I guess we
> will all have to replace those two words with, "... 'square measuring
> device' for size comparison only..."
>
> Hope you find the solutions!
>
> Best Regards,
> Greg
>
> ====================
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> www.LunarRock.com
> NaturesVault (eBay)
> AncientDiscoveries (eBay)(formerly 'NaturesVault')
> IMCA 3163
> ====================
> Click here for my current eBay auctions, I have two accounts now:
> 1) NaturesVault - http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZnaturesvault
> 2) AncientDiscoveries (formerly 'NaturesVault') -
> http://shop.ebay.com/ancientdiscoveries/m.html?_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Fujihara
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 11:14 AM
> To: Adam Hupe
> Cc: Adam
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Auction Days Numbered?
>
> Ebay turned off international site visibility on most of my auctions too as
> I posted a few days ago.  Nothing changed in my listings or in my
> descriptions other than weights and prices, but ebay chose to change some
> kind of policy without warning, which thereby resulted in the action they
> took.  I spent several hours trying to deduce what was going on, and
> received suggestions from several list members, to whom I am thankful.
>
> By trial and error, I removed lines of text from my descriptions until I no
> longer got ebay's message, which I have copied below.  Apparently they don't
> like Big Kahuna Meteorites, scale cubes, my shipping information or country
> names in my text descriptions, and when they found them would send me this
> message and turn off international site visibility.  With the text
> deletions, I now retain international site visibility, but have had to cull
> most of my text descriptions, in some instances down to a single sentence!
>
> I apologize to any of my friends who visit my auctions, for the sparse
> descriptions you now see, but at least now you know the reason behind the
> change.
>
> gary
>
>> You recently created or revised this eBay listing that included the
>> International Site Visibility feature:
>>
>> 330619432797 NEW! NWA 6927 Diogenite 2.76g Fresh Crusted Full Slice,
>>
>> However, we had to remove International Site Visibility from your listing.
>>
>> Of course, we won't be charging you the fee for it.
>>
>> Because the laws and eBay policies vary by country, sometimes items that
>> can be listed in your country can't be listed internationally. It's also
>> possible that the listing itself violated an eBay policy in another
>> country. In situations like this, we automatically remove the
>> International Site Visibility feature from the listing.
>>
>> We're sorry for the inconvenience this causes.
>>
>> To find out about our global selling requirements, visit:
>> http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/questions/sell_international_requirements.html
>>
>> For more information, contact customer support by clicking the "Help" link
>>
>> at the top of any eBay page and then clicking the "Contact Us" button.
>>
>>
>
> On Sep 30, 2011, at 4:58 AM, Adam Hupe wrote:
>
>> You are not kidding.  EBay turned off the international site visibility
>> option on most of my auctions. I am going to have to go to fixed pricing,
>> buy-it-now, store type sales soon or suspend eBay sales altogether.
>> International bidders can still find these auctions by going to ebay.com
>> instead of ebay.uk if this helps.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Adam
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> Gary Fujihara
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