One of the guys I like to read and keep up with is Skip McGrath’s Auction Seller’s Resource. In his latest newsletter is a good article on what we all have known was happening, but Skip sums it up very nicely.

ARE EBAY AUCTIONS GOING AWAY?
At eBay’s annual meeting, CEO John Donohoe said that auctions now make up less than half of all listings on the site. And he predicted it could drop to as low as 30% by 2011. Just a few years ago, auctions made up around 70 percent of the listings on the site but in the last quarter they were only 45 percent.

This is not by accident. Since Donohoe took over, eBay has made a concerted effort to look more like Amazon…..

The very nature of the auction business is that it only works when there is a sense of community and a shared passion between buyers and sellers. Those are the traits that made eBay successful. And, these are the same traits that eBay has assiduously tried to kill over the last few years….

Once you learn how to sell on eBay successfully you have learned valuable skills that you can transfer to selling on other venues such as Amazon, Craigslist, Upillar and Bonanzle (both Upillar and Bonanzle are really growing fast) and your own website.

Read all of Skip’s article here. While you are there, sign up for his free “The Ebay Seller’s News” newsletter – you will be glad you did!

With eBay’s new fee structure, it was time to restructure our business. We are in the process and already SO pleased with the results. We have found and are finding new / other avenues to sell, section off parts of inventory to different sites that work well for those items and breathe a sigh of relief that we are no longer so dependent on eBay!!!!! HALLELUJAH! Can I get an amen up in here?!?

Please add any links to successful auction sites that you are using. You are welcome to list a link to your auctions. I feel like any and every place that you can get a ‘free’ advertisement for your listings is a good thing!

Are you listing and having success on ebid, ecrater, auctiva commerce (still new), UBid, Bidz.com, overstock, amazon, OLA (online auctions), WeBidz, auction-warehouse, ePier, ItsGottaGo, Auction Fire, Auction Addict, Bid Alot, Auction.com, auctions.com, or any others? Tell us about your experiences!

Click here to see a list of Auctiva Commerce stores!

We need to know what is working and where we need to go to buy your items!!