The TTR review only looks at the selling process of every marketplace, and weighs traffic based on views and other generalized criteria, but actual sales are not one of them. The problem is, neither of these metrics mean anything at all to sellers, because both of them leave out one very crucial piece to the puzzle: sales. They also like to flaunt the number of listings, and merchandise value, of all the items listed on the site.Īn example of what eBid considers a “win”. The design clearly hasn’t had much change for a long time, but the real pet peeve of mine are the vague “victories” this site clings to: For many years, it has linked to a “TopTenReviews” comparison between eBid and eBay, updated every year, in which eBay barely ekes out a win in a head-to-head match. The bottom just seems to be randomly-generated listings that follow a random theme (in this case, business and office listings). The front page is loaded with information touting all the benefits of selling on eBid–I’m surprised it doesn’t show you listings that have recently sold.

in the early 2000s) how is it, then, that no one has heard of it? That’s just one of the myriad of problems affecting this site, but we’ll have plenty of time to get more in-depth with its problems later on. It was no doubt created to steal some of the success from eBay, but you have to give it credit for being one of the first (eBid launched in the UK way back in 1998, before coming to the U.S. The site’s design is pretty decent and straightforward, though it still feels pretty antiquated.

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