Power Sellers Unite

elgato · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 17240 Location: Texas

eBay CEO John Donahoe told Wall Street analysts on Thursday the company was working with brands such as Neiman Marcus Last Call and was still learning "how to really drive powerful incremental volume for them." He mentioned a special promotion with luxury brand Coach - "we were able to drive through a combination of, in essence, a flash sale and some other things, some nice incremental volume."

But "regular" sellers on eBay don't like the favored treatment, including a homepage link to Brands.eBay.com, and are skeptical that the big brands will be able to offer a good customer experience on eBay, since they say buyers there are more demanding than on other sites. Sellers worry about the effect of special treatment eBay gives brands on their own sales, and are also concerned that the brands are simply using their presence on eBay to drive traffic to their own websites.

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Digmen1 · Joined: 12 Feb 2010 Posts: 1007

All the big brands already have their own websites.

And if you look at "Internet Retailer" they are all doing well and growing each year.

So I think JD is deluded if he thinks they will all stick with ebay at the expense of their own sites.

But if "Regular Sellers" don't like ebay's push to big brand sites they can easily start listing on one of the top alt sites listed on this sites Auction Count.