Comments on: JTFM (Just The Facts Man) – The Auctiva Free to Fee Change http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/ eCommerce business top seller tips for online e-commerce sellers Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Low Acid Coffee http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/comment-page-1/#comment-3970 Low Acid Coffee Tue, 04 May 2010 10:05:43 +0000 http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/#comment-3970 I never knew this but it looks like Auctiva is a great guide in selling products on eBay. I never knew this but it looks like Auctiva is a great guide in selling products on eBay.

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]]> By: Hey Buddy Can You Spare a Dime or 12 Cents? : Auctiva Ask Sellers to Cough Up! http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/comment-page-1/#comment-1591 Hey Buddy Can You Spare a Dime or 12 Cents? : Auctiva Ask Sellers to Cough Up! Sun, 31 May 2009 22:32:00 +0000 http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/#comment-1591 [...] Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More »I did the initial story that had just the facts on the Auctiva fee change. But not lets get down to the REAL nitty gritty. What should you [...] [...] Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More »I did the initial story that had just the facts on the Auctiva fee change. But not lets get down to the REAL nitty gritty. What should you [...]

]]> By: John http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/comment-page-1/#comment-1589 John Sun, 31 May 2009 07:41:50 +0000 http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/#comment-1589 I am going to go with Cliff on that one. Images are your MOST important component of selling on eBay. Without an image your items do not sell. If there are outages on these hosts, you can get over listings not posting for a while. But having all your images go down at once can kill sales completely. Also had folks separated their images from the posting provider they would have avoided the Auctiva Virus scare earlier this year. HOWEVER, I must URGE all of you to have BACKUPS of every single image in your own in-house file. DO NOT DEPEND on these platforms for your pictures without having a backup. The most time consuming thing about making sales online is the pictures. Keep a local copy, storage is extremely cheap and all PC's have at the very least a CD burner so space is unlimited to keep a full copy of all your pictures. John I am going to go with Cliff on that one. Images are your MOST important component of selling on eBay. Without an image your items do not sell. If there are outages on these hosts, you can get over listings not posting for a while. But having all your images go down at once can kill sales completely. Also had folks separated their images from the posting provider they would have avoided the Auctiva Virus scare earlier this year.

HOWEVER, I must URGE all of you to have BACKUPS of every single image in your own in-house file. DO NOT DEPEND on these platforms for your pictures without having a backup. The most time consuming thing about making sales online is the pictures. Keep a local copy, storage is extremely cheap and all PC’s have at the very least a CD burner so space is unlimited to keep a full copy of all your pictures.

John

]]> By: Cliff Aliperti http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/comment-page-1/#comment-1588 Cliff Aliperti Sun, 31 May 2009 05:39:00 +0000 http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/#comment-1588 Mitzi, With image hosting, best move (I think) is to pay $4-$5/month for a GoDaddy site, publish images there and embed the URL's in your listings. This is what I do w/Inkfrog. I started doing this about 5 years ago after I left Auctionworks/Marketworks and realized I had to save 7,000+ images that I had on file with only them! Royal PITA, will never happen to me again. Cliff Mitzi,

With image hosting, best move (I think) is to pay $4-$5/month for a GoDaddy site, publish images there and embed the URL’s in your listings. This is what I do w/Inkfrog. I started doing this about 5 years ago after I left Auctionworks/Marketworks and realized I had to save 7,000+ images that I had on file with only them! Royal PITA, will never happen to me again.

Cliff

]]> By: Mitzi http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/comment-page-1/#comment-1583 Mitzi Sat, 30 May 2009 12:40:05 +0000 http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/#comment-1583 Oh and Kat - you are absolutely right that eBay has cut off Auctiva's revenue stream, prompting this change - so some of the fault does lie with them for sure. But Auctiva over reached and set prices way to high - responsibility for that is right in the CEO and his team's lap. Have you seen the responses from CEO and other Auctiva employees on their message boards? I think my eyes about rolled out of my head a hundred times just reading a few of their posts. They aren't defending themselves very well, and CEO has a real attitude in some of them... Oh and Kat – you are absolutely right that eBay has cut off Auctiva’s revenue stream, prompting this change – so some of the fault does lie with them for sure. But Auctiva over reached and set prices way to high – responsibility for that is right in the CEO and his team’s lap.

Have you seen the responses from CEO and other Auctiva employees on their message boards? I think my eyes about rolled out of my head a hundred times just reading a few of their posts. They aren’t defending themselves very well, and CEO has a real attitude in some of them…

]]> By: Mitzi http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/comment-page-1/#comment-1582 Mitzi Sat, 30 May 2009 12:34:03 +0000 http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/#comment-1582 Thanks Cliff, it's good to have someone who has used IF for a while now to give us the scoop! I think it would be a bad PR move for IF to raise prices too - but in 6 months that might not be the case... Since eBay made photos in pottery & glass, collectibles, and antiques free, I am still feeling like I might be better off just to list straight through eBay with a simple, easy to bulk edit template that will make handling any future changes easier. At least if I list thru eBay it is only their crap I have to deal with! ;) But, that means re-listing 600 store items - so importing into IF has it's appeal! You know, it isn't so much that Auctiva is not free anymore that is the problem - on the boards most people said they would be willing to pay a reasonable flat fee similar to IF's - but Auctiva went from free to one of the most expensive services out there! They keep saying that most of their users will be paying less than $10 a month, but in order for the fees to be that low you have to be a very casual seller. And those fees don't include image hosting - which they have made ridiculously high! Any seller with more than a handful of listings will need the $35 a month unlimited image hosting, and that's on top of all the other fees. It looks like I would end up paying them upwards of $100 a month - their service just isn't worth that! Thanks Cliff, it’s good to have someone who has used IF for a while now to give us the scoop! I think it would be a bad PR move for IF to raise prices too – but in 6 months that might not be the case…

Since eBay made photos in pottery & glass, collectibles, and antiques free, I am still feeling like I might be better off just to list straight through eBay with a simple, easy to bulk edit template that will make handling any future changes easier. At least if I list thru eBay it is only their crap I have to deal with! ;)

But, that means re-listing 600 store items – so importing into IF has it’s appeal!

You know, it isn’t so much that Auctiva is not free anymore that is the problem – on the boards most people said they would be willing to pay a reasonable flat fee similar to IF’s – but Auctiva went from free to one of the most expensive services out there!

They keep saying that most of their users will be paying less than $10 a month, but in order for the fees to be that low you have to be a very casual seller. And those fees don’t include image hosting – which they have made ridiculously high! Any seller with more than a handful of listings will need the $35 a month unlimited image hosting, and that’s on top of all the other fees. It looks like I would end up paying them upwards of $100 a month – their service just isn’t worth that!

]]> By: phoenix2000us http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/comment-page-1/#comment-1581 phoenix2000us Sat, 30 May 2009 11:37:47 +0000 http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/#comment-1581 I insisted on using InkFrog over Auctiva 3 years ago, but people should just move to buyitsellit.com. My former employer had over 1500 sku. eBay dictates a return policy. Change the listings. No watermark names in images. Change the listings. eBay says no checks and money orders. Change the listings. Postal rates rise. Change the listings. When you are busy changing all your listings every couple months, you ARE NOT out finding new stock, you are not spending time learning new techniques and programs AND YOU ARE NOT moving your items to a new venue. BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE! In addition to the increase of Auctiva fees how about the Final Value Fee for, uh, picture hosting, templates, scrolling gallery, frozen pages, malware... why is Paulie Walnuts here taking his "taste" out of your pocket? You ought to sell on your own, on buyitsellit.com and you, the business owner can control the means of production. So just take your customer's email addresses and invite them to your new home. The "venue" that is your "partner" does allow your to have YOUR CUSTOMER'S email address, right? I insisted on using InkFrog over Auctiva 3 years ago, but people should just move to buyitsellit.com.

My former employer had over 1500 sku. eBay dictates a return policy. Change the listings. No watermark names in images. Change the listings. eBay says no checks and money orders. Change the listings. Postal rates rise. Change the listings.

When you are busy changing all your listings every couple months, you ARE NOT out finding new stock, you are not spending time learning new techniques and programs AND YOU ARE NOT moving your items to a new venue.

BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE! In addition to the increase of Auctiva fees how about the Final Value Fee for, uh, picture hosting, templates, scrolling gallery, frozen pages, malware… why is Paulie Walnuts here taking his “taste” out of your pocket?

You ought to sell on your own, on buyitsellit.com and you, the business owner can control the means of production.

So just take your customer’s email addresses and invite them to your new home. The “venue” that is your “partner” does allow your to have YOUR CUSTOMER’S email address, right?

]]> By: Cliff Aliperti http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/comment-page-1/#comment-1579 Cliff Aliperti Sat, 30 May 2009 04:10:48 +0000 http://3rdpoblogs.com/colderice/2009/05/29/jtfm-just-the-facts-man-the-auctiva-free-to-fee-change/#comment-1579 By the way, <a href="http://www.the-collectors-site.com/?p=359" rel="nofollow">this might be a good intro</a> to Inkfrog, I wrote it back in September 2008 when they first introduced Inkfrog 2.0 and I was getting my feet wet with it. Maybe I'll try to update it a little over the weekend and put together one of my guest posts over here if anyone thinks it'll be a help. Thanks, Cliff By the way, this might be a good intro to Inkfrog, I wrote it back in September 2008 when they first introduced Inkfrog 2.0 and I was getting my feet wet with it.

Maybe I’ll try to update it a little over the weekend and put together one of my guest posts over here if anyone thinks it’ll be a help.

Thanks, Cliff

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