PowerSeller revolt looms as eBay CEO Donahoe tinkers with business model
Alex Salkever
Jul 27th 2009 at 8:20PMText SizeAAAFiled under: Company News, Technology
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Online auctioneer eBay's legions of sellers are digesting the likely fallout from a significant raft of policy and fee changes announced by company CEO John Donahoe today. The quick and dirty version -- kiss the old, quirky fun eBay (EBAY) goodbye and say hello to a site that looks a lot more like Amazon.com. I spoke at length to Ina Steiner, editor of AuctionBytes.com, a noted eBay expert who has been critical of the website at times.
Steiner has a decidedly opinionated take on the likely impact of the changes, which she sees as both carrot and stick. "For companies that are selling one-of-a-kind items such as antiques or rare jewelry, these rules could have a really negative impact," says Steiner. That's because the company will now offer a higher 20% discount on fees paid to eBay for its new Top-Rated Sellers category who have the very best customer ratings, while offering a diminished 5% standard PowerSeller fee discount to longstanding vendors whose customer ratings don't qualify them for the higher discount.
The move underscore the dilemma CEO John Donahoe faces as he tries to move the company away from a maxed-out auction model, to a more staid e-commerce platform without causing faithful eBay sellers to bail out in droves.
The fee discount difference can mean thousands of dollars in extra costs or extra savings for many eBay sellers. To access the newly created Top-Rated Sellers category, eBay merchants must have virtually zero negative feedback ratings from customers. This is not a problem for buyers of items such as electronics or office supplies.
But it will hurt eBay resellers moving quirkier or more unique wares, says Steiner. It's much harder for vendors to move specialty items and avoid all negative feedback. That's due to the inevitable disconnect between buyers' expectations and the reality of their purchases, which many times are not always exactly what they imagined or equal to what they saw in an online photo. For vendors of unique wares, making disgruntled customers happy through discounts or refunds may not be an option. "They want sellers to do what it takes to make a buyer happy. On eBay, that's not always a practical approach," says Steiner. "Sellers who are selling valuable antiques or high value item, its not as easy to say, keep it and I'll refund you because you are complaining."
She also noted that new search results pages on the website will look a lot more like Amazon results pages, with a product description, some product information, and a "buy box" with two or three leading eBay merchants. Links to other eBay merchants will be lower down the page. And, Donahoe has announced that eBay is aggressively moving toward more fixed-price item sales, much like Amazon.
Not that Donahoe has a made a secret of his intentions to abandon eBay's core to become a more polished e-tailer. Donahoe is on a mission to make eBay ubquitous with a massive keyword acquisition strategy to goose search engine results for eBay items. He's going to need all the help he can get if traffic to eBay continues to fall and faithful sellers abandon ship for greener pastures at niche auction and e-tail sights like GoAntiques and Etsy.com. And there is cold comfort in locking horns with Amazon, an online retailer that has increasingly sucked up a larger percentage of the e-tail market. But judging from its recent earnings call, eBay's management team sure seems eager to get into that race.
Alex Salkever is a Senior Writer at AOL Daily Finance covering tech, clean tech and green tech.You can follow him on Twitter at alexsalkever.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Big Ticket Depot Marketing
From: Brad Harris/VP BTD-BVDDate: July 21, 2009Time: 11:47 A.M. CSTTo: 300 Elite TeamElite Team/Marketing Info-Strategy-From CEO
Good Afternoon 300 Elite Team,
It has been several weeks since I have sent out a communication to the team. Your CEO/Joel Sauceda has put together some fantastic things utilizing FaceBook and IContact to keep this team up to speed every step of the way as we move forward with BVD/BTD. I have been extremely busy with new programming that is going to rocket us forward for the coming weeks, months and years.
There is not one thing that we are doing that has short term vision but only long term vision. Joel and I are not in this for just ourselves. We have built this vision around this team and what we ARE going to both give you to be successful and what we plan on doing for you.
This week marks the start of the rollout of new things which we know you both need and want to take your BVD/BTD business to the next level. What we have both already done and are continuing to work on, will also help us catapult your business as part of the 300 elite team. Know this..Not one of us will take this to the next level alone. It is as a team that will do that.
***New Advertising Banners***
This past weekend there was a communication put out which gave you a glimpse of all the new banners we created for your online advertisement. We displayed all of them on a webpage just for your viewing. What you didn't know was that we had already programmed these in your BTD affiliate back office.
Yes they are live and 100% ready to use. Simply go to your static banner link in your affiliate back office and then select all banners. We added 11 new banners which are for both BVD and BTD to the existing 8 banners for a total of 19.
As you will see they are 100% coded to send your potential client or new affiliate prospect signup to the appropriate page when they click on your banner. Each banner is also coded so it will track every single click to your client signup or affiliate signup pages.
THESE ARE LIVE!!! You can use them now.
***Coming Next***
There are several other new things which are also about to go live to help both you individually and us at corporate to do everything we are planning with our marketing campaigns.
1.) New Client Splash Pages: Many of you have already seen a glimpse of these (Both BVD and BTD client splash pages). They should be completely programmed into the system for your unique affiliate ID link in the next 2 days at the latest. Once that is completed, you will receive a detailed communication with all of that information.
2.) New Affiliate Splash Pages: These will come right behind the above Client Splash pages. They have already been created and now sent to the programmers for proper coding.
3.) Personal BVD and then BTD Webstores: This one is huge, and I mean huge. I am not going to go into detail on this right now, but will tell you this. The personal webstore and the packages attached to those are going to enable you with the ability to build big monthly residual commissions from your future clients. More to come in the next 7-10 days as this will go live by the end of July at the latest.
4.) New Client Training/Autoresponder System: We are in the process of putting together a new extensive autoresponder system for all of your future clients which you WILL HAVE with all which we have done and are doing. This will take them from being a new client just joining and listing a free item all the way to showing them how they can activate their own webstore and even become an affiliate.
***Until our Next Update***
As you can see there is and has been a lot happening. I look so forward to our next communication as we continue the unveil all the new things that are being completed.
Have an awesome day.
Brad HarrisVP JBInternetBVD/BTD
Good Afternoon 300 Elite Team,
It has been several weeks since I have sent out a communication to the team. Your CEO/Joel Sauceda has put together some fantastic things utilizing FaceBook and IContact to keep this team up to speed every step of the way as we move forward with BVD/BTD. I have been extremely busy with new programming that is going to rocket us forward for the coming weeks, months and years.
There is not one thing that we are doing that has short term vision but only long term vision. Joel and I are not in this for just ourselves. We have built this vision around this team and what we ARE going to both give you to be successful and what we plan on doing for you.
This week marks the start of the rollout of new things which we know you both need and want to take your BVD/BTD business to the next level. What we have both already done and are continuing to work on, will also help us catapult your business as part of the 300 elite team. Know this..Not one of us will take this to the next level alone. It is as a team that will do that.
***New Advertising Banners***
This past weekend there was a communication put out which gave you a glimpse of all the new banners we created for your online advertisement. We displayed all of them on a webpage just for your viewing. What you didn't know was that we had already programmed these in your BTD affiliate back office.
Yes they are live and 100% ready to use. Simply go to your static banner link in your affiliate back office and then select all banners. We added 11 new banners which are for both BVD and BTD to the existing 8 banners for a total of 19.
As you will see they are 100% coded to send your potential client or new affiliate prospect signup to the appropriate page when they click on your banner. Each banner is also coded so it will track every single click to your client signup or affiliate signup pages.
THESE ARE LIVE!!! You can use them now.
***Coming Next***
There are several other new things which are also about to go live to help both you individually and us at corporate to do everything we are planning with our marketing campaigns.
1.) New Client Splash Pages: Many of you have already seen a glimpse of these (Both BVD and BTD client splash pages). They should be completely programmed into the system for your unique affiliate ID link in the next 2 days at the latest. Once that is completed, you will receive a detailed communication with all of that information.
2.) New Affiliate Splash Pages: These will come right behind the above Client Splash pages. They have already been created and now sent to the programmers for proper coding.
3.) Personal BVD and then BTD Webstores: This one is huge, and I mean huge. I am not going to go into detail on this right now, but will tell you this. The personal webstore and the packages attached to those are going to enable you with the ability to build big monthly residual commissions from your future clients. More to come in the next 7-10 days as this will go live by the end of July at the latest.
4.) New Client Training/Autoresponder System: We are in the process of putting together a new extensive autoresponder system for all of your future clients which you WILL HAVE with all which we have done and are doing. This will take them from being a new client just joining and listing a free item all the way to showing them how they can activate their own webstore and even become an affiliate.
***Until our Next Update***
As you can see there is and has been a lot happening. I look so forward to our next communication as we continue the unveil all the new things that are being completed.
Have an awesome day.
Brad HarrisVP JBInternetBVD/BTD
Monday, June 29, 2009
Big Ticket Depot/Big Value Depot 300 Team
From: Joel Sauceda/Big Ticket & Big Value Depot CEO Date: June 29, 2009Time: 12:00 P.M. CSTTo: 300 Elite Team
Good afternoon,
This week we will be setting up multiple rotator pages that are going to be inserted in the search engines and will be marketed on FACE BOOK, MY SPACE and many other social networking websites. We have worked out arrangements to cross link these pages and here is what it means for you as a 300 Elite Team member..Before the end of this email, I will be asking you to set up a FREE account with Face Book so you can help accommodate some of the enrollments we will get from that angle alone. You will understand why by the end of this email..
What does all this "marketing" we are doing mean to you?
Traffic to your websites and Commissions (money!)
The Plan Has IMPROVED Over The Past Several Months.. This has been done to make this even BETTER for you and easier for you to build a long term income and make UPFRONT money...
Our plan of launching Big Ticket Depot has evolved into something much greater than we ever dreamed and although it took more time& money, the final product is going to be worth the wait. I can tell you that our (YOUR) market went from 30% to almost 85% of people who will have an interest or NEED for what YOU will offer them. The way we are going to present this by use of SINGLE WEB PAGES that will GRAB peoples attention and SIMPLE WEB PAGES that will enable peopleto activate a LISTING VOUCHER (with YOUR code on it) to "TRY BEFORE THEY BUY" a listing will be TURN-KEY and SIMPLE. This will show them that they can do it and will make them WANT to join.
SIMPLICITY is KEY. We are working to make this program SIMPLE to understand and SIMPLE to market. We know that some of you may feel like your out of the loop but that is not the case. The marketing we are setting in place at our expense is going to benefit you tremendously and will not require you to go through a year of training. Our goal is to get each of you to the point of getting 3-4 enrollments a DAY or more..
What would that mean?
3 X $75 = $225 Per day X 30 Days= OVER $6000 per month...
How many of you could use that kind of income or even HALF of that kind of income? Or how about half of HALF of that kind of extra income? This is very realistic considering the MARKET CLIMATE and ECONOMIC CONDITIONS....VERY DOABLE.
What we are doing on our end is going to make that 100% possible and NOT "Pie In The Sky"..
Remember something...
People around the WORLD are interested in SELLING their OWN stuff...People in MLM's around the world are trying to SELL their products....People who own HOUSES, BOATS, etc..etc.. are DESPERATE to sell their stuff...
We have a HUGE market and to find 2-3 people a day on this thing we call the INTERNET (where BILLIONS reside), makes it POSSIBLE.
We are marketing something here that people want and people who are presently using Ebay and other listing options are looking for OTHER options. We are that OPTION.
I have NEVER doubted this idea/opportunity, I only WISHED the programming could be completed faster because I KNOW that we have a program that is going to GROW rapidly and so many of you are going to make a lot of money at..
I am here to tell you that I am behind this program 10000% and it was 100% my idea to launch this and I have NO DOUBT in my mind that what we have here is a HIT and will get HUGE!
The question is this...
WHO will be part of it and who will have the patience and staying power to see this idea that is ALREADY in action become a HOUSE HOLD name online...WHEN this happens this team will have been at the FOREFRONT and will reap the NEW enrollments and NEW clients and EVERYTHING else we are setting in place.
Remember, we did not launch this company as a PUBLIC company.. We launched this company with a 300 Elite Team who saw this vision before the websites were even built. You read and heard my idea online and you are seeing this roll out before your eyes. This IS going to be big and if ANYONE opted out they will want to OPT back in and fast. Nobody will want to lose their 300 Elite Team Status especially when you see how we are PROGRAMMING this system to CODEEVERY Vortex member who is in NOW and in the future to have a listing code and a position that WE will encourage them to activate by showing them step by step how simple this program is...
There is MUCH to go over and I appreciate you reading this far. I know that with the economy in such a downer it can get you down sometimes. We are all human but it is important to keep your eye on the FINAL GOAL. We have a PLAN here and we have never strayed from that plan.
My thanks goes out to Brad Harris (VP) who has put so much into making sure the programming is solid and our great web design staff who have been on top of this each and every day. I would also like to thank Manuel Oblitas and his staff who have put thousands of hours into developing this programs TECHNICAL side. You have no idea how much has gone into this and how FAR we plan on taking this program.
For now, I have some instructions for each of you...
FIRST and foremost if your account has lapsed for whatever reason, it is important that it is put back in qualified status. If your $39 monthly maintenance has lapsed, you will need to email Brad Harris at :
Admin@BigTicketDepot.Com
In your email subject line put : REINSTATE BTD
In your email put your FULL NAME
Brad will send you instructions to reinstate your account..You will not want to lose your 300 Elite Team status...
*********INSTRUCTIONS**********
I have been setting up MULTIPLE angles for driving traffic to YOUR websites. I will be deploying MULTIPLE campaigns and NO it will NOT cost you anything but TIME. We have budgeted for this marketing and as a 300 Elite Team member in good standing, you have EARNED it.
One of many angles I have set up is the Social Media Marketing angle....
I am sure everyone here has heard of Myspace, Twitter, FaceBook etc..
I have a plan that will drive THOUSANDS of people from those mediums to this team (YOU) BUT I need each of you to set up an account, FIRST with FACE BOOK...
Here is what I need each of you to do:
FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:
1. Go to FaceBook.Com and set up a FREE account (right hand side of page)..
2. AFTER you have set up a FREE account, send me a DIRECT EMAIL at the following account:
Joel@JoelSauceda.Com
(Some of you are with us in Max Life and I gave you all ANOTHER email account to send to for that)
In your email subject to me put "Face Book Account Established"
In our email put your FIRST/LAST name.
I will in turn send you a special link to join a special Face Book group with me. This is one way I will communicate with you and anther way I will send traffic to your websites..
This week we will be explaining the PERSONALIZED BTD & BVD Stores that each of you will be GIVEN! These stores will be a product you will be able to market and make HUGE residual commissions on. Who will be interested in these stores?
1. Small independent car, boat, rv dealerships..How many around the world? MILLIONS!
2. Antique shops, specialty shops
3. Current Ebay sellers..They will want to save money by setting up shop with us..
4. The MILLIONS of people on Craigs list posting items to sell...
This week we will show you how this part of the puzzle is going to attract people from around the world and how you will be GIVEN multiple SIMPLE one page websites that will invite them in...NO phone call sales required because our emails/social media marketing will do the work for you..
The vision is alive and well and you will soon see Vortex (the system that has BUILT Max Life and Big Ticket) evolve into a TURN-KEY system that will drive people into YOUR big ticket team and for youyeh who are part of Max Life, BOTH!
Have a great day and do not forget to follow the instructions above!
Regards,
Joel Sauceda Big Ticket/Big Value Depot CEO
Good afternoon,
This week we will be setting up multiple rotator pages that are going to be inserted in the search engines and will be marketed on FACE BOOK, MY SPACE and many other social networking websites. We have worked out arrangements to cross link these pages and here is what it means for you as a 300 Elite Team member..Before the end of this email, I will be asking you to set up a FREE account with Face Book so you can help accommodate some of the enrollments we will get from that angle alone. You will understand why by the end of this email..
What does all this "marketing" we are doing mean to you?
Traffic to your websites and Commissions (money!)
The Plan Has IMPROVED Over The Past Several Months.. This has been done to make this even BETTER for you and easier for you to build a long term income and make UPFRONT money...
Our plan of launching Big Ticket Depot has evolved into something much greater than we ever dreamed and although it took more time& money, the final product is going to be worth the wait. I can tell you that our (YOUR) market went from 30% to almost 85% of people who will have an interest or NEED for what YOU will offer them. The way we are going to present this by use of SINGLE WEB PAGES that will GRAB peoples attention and SIMPLE WEB PAGES that will enable peopleto activate a LISTING VOUCHER (with YOUR code on it) to "TRY BEFORE THEY BUY" a listing will be TURN-KEY and SIMPLE. This will show them that they can do it and will make them WANT to join.
SIMPLICITY is KEY. We are working to make this program SIMPLE to understand and SIMPLE to market. We know that some of you may feel like your out of the loop but that is not the case. The marketing we are setting in place at our expense is going to benefit you tremendously and will not require you to go through a year of training. Our goal is to get each of you to the point of getting 3-4 enrollments a DAY or more..
What would that mean?
3 X $75 = $225 Per day X 30 Days= OVER $6000 per month...
How many of you could use that kind of income or even HALF of that kind of income? Or how about half of HALF of that kind of extra income? This is very realistic considering the MARKET CLIMATE and ECONOMIC CONDITIONS....VERY DOABLE.
What we are doing on our end is going to make that 100% possible and NOT "Pie In The Sky"..
Remember something...
People around the WORLD are interested in SELLING their OWN stuff...People in MLM's around the world are trying to SELL their products....People who own HOUSES, BOATS, etc..etc.. are DESPERATE to sell their stuff...
We have a HUGE market and to find 2-3 people a day on this thing we call the INTERNET (where BILLIONS reside), makes it POSSIBLE.
We are marketing something here that people want and people who are presently using Ebay and other listing options are looking for OTHER options. We are that OPTION.
I have NEVER doubted this idea/opportunity, I only WISHED the programming could be completed faster because I KNOW that we have a program that is going to GROW rapidly and so many of you are going to make a lot of money at..
I am here to tell you that I am behind this program 10000% and it was 100% my idea to launch this and I have NO DOUBT in my mind that what we have here is a HIT and will get HUGE!
The question is this...
WHO will be part of it and who will have the patience and staying power to see this idea that is ALREADY in action become a HOUSE HOLD name online...WHEN this happens this team will have been at the FOREFRONT and will reap the NEW enrollments and NEW clients and EVERYTHING else we are setting in place.
Remember, we did not launch this company as a PUBLIC company.. We launched this company with a 300 Elite Team who saw this vision before the websites were even built. You read and heard my idea online and you are seeing this roll out before your eyes. This IS going to be big and if ANYONE opted out they will want to OPT back in and fast. Nobody will want to lose their 300 Elite Team Status especially when you see how we are PROGRAMMING this system to CODEEVERY Vortex member who is in NOW and in the future to have a listing code and a position that WE will encourage them to activate by showing them step by step how simple this program is...
There is MUCH to go over and I appreciate you reading this far. I know that with the economy in such a downer it can get you down sometimes. We are all human but it is important to keep your eye on the FINAL GOAL. We have a PLAN here and we have never strayed from that plan.
My thanks goes out to Brad Harris (VP) who has put so much into making sure the programming is solid and our great web design staff who have been on top of this each and every day. I would also like to thank Manuel Oblitas and his staff who have put thousands of hours into developing this programs TECHNICAL side. You have no idea how much has gone into this and how FAR we plan on taking this program.
For now, I have some instructions for each of you...
FIRST and foremost if your account has lapsed for whatever reason, it is important that it is put back in qualified status. If your $39 monthly maintenance has lapsed, you will need to email Brad Harris at :
Admin@BigTicketDepot.Com
In your email subject line put : REINSTATE BTD
In your email put your FULL NAME
Brad will send you instructions to reinstate your account..You will not want to lose your 300 Elite Team status...
*********INSTRUCTIONS**********
I have been setting up MULTIPLE angles for driving traffic to YOUR websites. I will be deploying MULTIPLE campaigns and NO it will NOT cost you anything but TIME. We have budgeted for this marketing and as a 300 Elite Team member in good standing, you have EARNED it.
One of many angles I have set up is the Social Media Marketing angle....
I am sure everyone here has heard of Myspace, Twitter, FaceBook etc..
I have a plan that will drive THOUSANDS of people from those mediums to this team (YOU) BUT I need each of you to set up an account, FIRST with FACE BOOK...
Here is what I need each of you to do:
FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:
1. Go to FaceBook.Com and set up a FREE account (right hand side of page)..
2. AFTER you have set up a FREE account, send me a DIRECT EMAIL at the following account:
Joel@JoelSauceda.Com
(Some of you are with us in Max Life and I gave you all ANOTHER email account to send to for that)
In your email subject to me put "Face Book Account Established"
In our email put your FIRST/LAST name.
I will in turn send you a special link to join a special Face Book group with me. This is one way I will communicate with you and anther way I will send traffic to your websites..
This week we will be explaining the PERSONALIZED BTD & BVD Stores that each of you will be GIVEN! These stores will be a product you will be able to market and make HUGE residual commissions on. Who will be interested in these stores?
1. Small independent car, boat, rv dealerships..How many around the world? MILLIONS!
2. Antique shops, specialty shops
3. Current Ebay sellers..They will want to save money by setting up shop with us..
4. The MILLIONS of people on Craigs list posting items to sell...
This week we will show you how this part of the puzzle is going to attract people from around the world and how you will be GIVEN multiple SIMPLE one page websites that will invite them in...NO phone call sales required because our emails/social media marketing will do the work for you..
The vision is alive and well and you will soon see Vortex (the system that has BUILT Max Life and Big Ticket) evolve into a TURN-KEY system that will drive people into YOUR big ticket team and for youyeh who are part of Max Life, BOTH!
Have a great day and do not forget to follow the instructions above!
Regards,
Joel Sauceda Big Ticket/Big Value Depot CEO
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