This is why I am hoping I can sell my Deckel FP2 and Hardinge HLVH here instead of feeBay and PainPal.
Seriously.
I NEVER had any wish to SELL on eBay. Too much like work, and LAZY, Iyam.
But it has gradually dropped off my menu for purchases as well. Could was, they actually ARE trying to ease the pain of Laws they did not make, and even doing a better job of a managing that pain-in-all-asses than we have yet realized.
Even so, if PM tilts a tad more to a marketplace as well as a knowledge exchange?
I'm all for it!
PM had already displaced ebay for MY sourcing 2 or 3 years back, and become the ONLY place I sell a damned thing at all. Mind I'm not a merchant, don't
need to sell, can scrap if less work, not miss a meal.
Neither am I exactly the Lone Ranger on that score. Many of us sell on PM just to help keep stuff working, some other member's shop. And the reverse. Works rather well. But no relation to the "mainstream" of eBay..which isn't really tools or tooling, anyway.
Otherwise, for "incoming", I go direct to the OEM maker as it is not only a choice more universal than ever - it has become CHEAPER, faster, and EASIER than eBay, regardless if new, surplus, or "remaindermen" - NRI to name the most recent - than eBay is for the same item, same warehouse shelf on eBay or the vendor's direct website and shopping cart.
"Paypal" still an option, but almost NEVER the
only option.
"Better model than eBay?" Assuredly so, already.
We are right smack-dab in the MIDDLE of a
de-facto paradigm shift. Amazon next on the list, see FedEx and UPS actions of late.
The "killer" dynamic? Damned-near universal websites. Matured ones that simply WORK. Tracked and indexed into search engines.
Ebay became mostly but my SEARCH engine a while ago, and they have even f**ked that up far worse that anything ELSE.
BFD. So Gross Google the Sovietski spymasters will just have to serve.
Wuddn' yah know it? Google actually finds the same damned goods, MORE suppliers, and waaay faster..... if only yah know how to
ask half-way sanely! As-in pin-shapers for wood choppers, stroke shaper or metal shaper .. rather than a million hits for uplift bras and such as guidance systems for "weaponized" tits and asses!
Invest in honing yer search term skills, and off we go to the
evolved market model.
E-prey shudda known it's biz model couldn't dominate FOREVER, any more than Sears-Roebuck, Marshall-Fields, or Monkey-Ward catalogs did.. once store-bought bumfodder became affordable for the common can.
"Seek and ye shall find".
Do yer
selling website
well, and BECOME easily and rapidly "found".
Not hard to create. Annual cost can be less than eBay fees on but a few transactions.