Originally Posted by
theElench
"I made it to the Home Page, under: Sold Items. YEAH!"
That's quite an achievement, Sold items aren't shown for very long and I've never seen any of mine up there.
Recently there were a pair of posters on the obay boards doing the "Edid's a waste of space" -- "Nothing ever sells" thing. I replied, saying that their posts weren't accurate as the HP Sold strip moved along 24/7 and so many items sold that sometimes what's being shown is hours behind the real time.
My post was very quickly taken down and I was given a months ban for "encouraging sellers to list off obay" (I paraphrase). Needless to say the detractors posts were allowed to stand. I've said as much before and not been censored, perhaps their falling sales are getting them worried? Strangely, these days, the "nothing ever sells" comments are mostly from posters who aren't regulars, have only posted a handful of times and having put out the message once again, disappear, never to be heard from again. I think they're probably 'plants' from the obay Dirty Tricks Dept.
My sales this year on ebid = 15, on obay = 5 and in an effort to sell a few more items I've resorted to the tactics I adopted here (when sales were few and far between). So far even that hasn't made any difference.
I love the beautiful grey cat that photo-bombs the pictures of your garden work, which is amazing.