Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
Google is reportedly sending 600 workers in engineering and support to a new location in the Phoenix area which is the center of a new Google complex in Arizona. The site has not been established yet, but Google announced their plans on Arizona expansion at an event hosted at the State Capitol yesterday.
BizJournals reports that unnamed sources say that Google is planning a mega auction center in the new Arizona location in a bid to launch Google Auctions, in direct competition with Yahoo, MSN, and of course, eBay.
Aaron Wall of the SEOBook wonders how such an auction service from Google would effect its advertising model, Google AdWords, which includes mega advertising campaigns from eBay and eBay resellers. Will those sellers be advertising on AdWords in the future for Google Auctions listings and reimbursing Google a higher percentage of the item sale instead of paying the Google AdWords pay-per-click price?
From Aaron : “You have to wonder how this will effect eBay AdWords bidding strategies if a rivalry between them heats up. eBay is one of the most frequently searched terms, and eBay has one of the largest AdWords spends.”
Finally kick eBay out of business, they are a bunch of idiots. A bunch of kids running the show that do not know what they are doing and management is the worst in the world. They were lucky since they were the first in the business. No one makes money but themselves. It takes no brains to take listings. Now that your going in the business they quickly will fold and be unemployed like the big bubble computer firms. Open as soon as you can so I have a big laugh on them. Thanks for coming into this business and lots of luck.
Lets get rid of ebay quick. Get them all unemployed and look for a regular job that you have to work hard on. They have a soft jof by messing up peoples inventory and spending money for nothing on those high fees.
Ha, Ha, Ha, Goodbye eBay, you were worth nothing.
Now eBay can have an auction on themsselves, I hope this is the last of ebay, and gone with the wind, all theie employes and Margaret looking for new jobs with McDonald’s as counter servers. Yeay for Google.
Say goodbye to eBay, good rid,don’t come back, go into another business, maybe selling peanuts.
Thank you Google! I lost money listing on eBay. I just wanted to sell inexpensive jewelry and gifts on ebay. I never made a profit. But ebay sure did make a lot of money off me and my 3 kids. Good luck to you!
yeah for google, byebye ebay.
EBAY WAS RUNNING AND HAD A RACQUET ALL THESE YEARS. THEY MADE ALL THEIR MONET ON SO MANY LISTINGS WITH NO SALES OR PURCHASES BEING DONE. A NOTHING COMPANY COLLECTING MONEY FOR NO DEALS EVER MADE. BYE BYE TO EBAY.
eBay needs to be humbled. They treat us Powersellers like dirt. They get you front and backend with fees, then hit you again on the Paypal side. IT SUCKS!!! I spent over $35,000 so far this year on Listing Fees. I am so excited for google to enter the auction space. They will have 100% of my business once their doors open.
I’m glad you’re getting into auctions, but keep your fees down. That last fee increase on ebay really made people hate them.
At last, a company that can rival Ebay. I wish you all the best, but hope that whatever you do you don’t sink to the depths of Ebay. Keep listing prices/ final value fees reasonable, and keep out the scum from selling tat. And please, please, please, can we have a decent customer service dept. that acually deal with problems and fraudulent listings? Ebay did everything they could to make it impossible to get hold of them, and they didn’t want to deal with problems. After all, whatever sold on Ebay, meant that Ebay got money. Greedy B@st@rds!
after repeatedly reporting fraudsters,guess how many replies i recieved of e-bay? NONE!!!!!!!!!! they are promoting fraud.i predicted e-bays demise months ago.now hopefully it will be reality.
Finally, a group that will MAKE eBay competitve! I love it! I have been selling with them since the days when they were begging people to sell on their site, listings were 10 cents…now, they are so big that unless you are a huge volume seller you cannot compete. Hey Google, sign me up!
I hope your auction site works out…. down with ebay and paypal.
HURY< HURRY< HURRY!!!
I am going broke trying to make money on Ebay!
PLEASE HURRY HURRY HURRY! I am going BROKE trying to make money on Ebay!
eBay will have to LOWER their prices. Bwaahahahahahahahaha!
I am happy to see another auction site, I have bought a lot on e bay over the years, the bidding process on e bay now is a real gimmic, there are books out to teach how to win bids, I believe that a seller should list an item at the minimum amount they would take, I hope that you do not have a secret minimum and play games,please have a legitimit grown up type action with no gimmics, I think that you would win a lot of respect over time. looking forward to your auctions. Thanks, Jim
It’s about time they have some competition !!!! Others are confirming what I have suspected about Ebay for some time now. ON WITH , GOOGLE !!!!! We’re ready to see what you’ve got !!
Working on E-bay for one year now, I am hoping that google provides us with new honest methods for selling. We have found them to be spiteful, and run by people with no scruples….hurray for Google
be not afraid – All Ebayers are with you!!!!!
Ebay are utter crap. There are counterfeit items all over the site. Here is an example: http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZdealwithalien26QQhtZ-1
I hate EBAY and love google. I’m selling my shares of eBAy!!
GREAT! I AM SICK OF EBAY! SICK! SICK!SICK! I TELL YOU! ALWAYS INCREASING FEELS, SQUEEZING OUT LITTLE SELLERS LIKE MYSELF!
GO GOOGLE — SET UP THAT AUCTION SITE NOW! PLEASE! GIVE US A WAY OUT OF EBAY!
As an eBay seller, I certainly look forward to a viable option to eBay for my auctions. I already closed my eBay store when they had the rate increase. Without competition, eBay will continue to raise the rates on US sellers while decreasing the already poor service.
Although I am very anxious for a Google auction site to be available, I hope they don’t roll it out before it’s well tested like Overstock did. I know many sellers who were excited about Overtock, but too many initial problems – especially the goofy search engine, made it very disappointing.
I cannot wait,be honest and answer the email…You go Google
I HATE EBAY!!!! They think they can suspend you any d@mn time they want. Happens over and over to legitimate sellers.
Cannot wait for you to get started. Good Luck! The sooner the better!!!!
hey eBay looks like your Waterloo approaching, revenge time for all those sellers with auctions shut down illegitimately under the corrupt vero program…hope Google sends you to the history books!
Hope that You hurry because when I heard that this was your direction ans with ebay continued high fees i stoped runnning auctions after thanksgiving sometime i think and i and real hesitant about restarting even though i am in good standing i just hast the fees and the treatment
Hope that You hurry because when I heard that this was your (new auction site)direction and with ebay continued high fees I stoped runnning auctions after thanksgiving sometime I think and, I have bee real hesitant about restarting even though I am in good standing I just hate the fees and the treatment that ebat gives to its loyal sellers just look at what some of them will say and do when they heat about a new place to sell or and dpn even mention better prices they are gone, who wouldn’t you have to be able to make something while you are selling!!!!
When? When? When, is this going to happen? How will we know?
Please tell us!
Signed another disappointed ebay seller.
I would love to see Ebay go into the auction business and would also love it if they would open a division like Ebay stores. Google is the one company that could really give Ebay a run for it’s money. Also the way Ebay has treated it’s store sellers, I am guessing 50% or more of the store owners would jump ship or at least open another store on Google. Please Google, do it soon!
Well, I have been going broke on eBay for so long it seems unreal. I remember when listings were 10 cents, and sellers actually made a PROFIT! Now we on eBay are lucky to break even, while eBay gets fat. It is grossly unfair to pay eBay 3 times to collect your winnings, and all the while keep paying for listings that do not sell. Go GOOGLE! I think your payment plan should be called GOOGLE BUCKS! May the stairway to heaven that eBay has purchased at our expense lie in pieces on the ground.
At last.we will relish the day we can trade on a system that actually works.
ebay in our 12 months of experience have become one of the most hated names inside our business.
We have a punching bag in our office that has quite a few rips in it from the punishing we have dealt it in leiu of the complete and utter uslessness of ebay and its support or should i say lack of.
good ridance to ebay and the idiots running it.
TAKE EM TO THE CLEANERS GOOGLE!
Was real easy money for Ebay all these years too bad they got too greedy and will probably lose it all now. Would be nice to see a user friendly auction system. When I first started ebay it was a mess to figure out how to get started, they made it a bit easier but then dropped the ball. They could have made alot more money with a Fast Easy system to get lots of auctions running with a minimum amount of time loading. Should be easy money for google!!
im still in shock.i thought i was working for myself.but i feel like im selling items for ebay,ive lost lots of money on ebay,i really hope that google auctions is the answer,ive been waiting for.like jim from mad money says,their will always be someone out there who will compete against your company, its just a matter of time.
I have made a lot of money on eBay had multiple gold powerseller accounts until i was suspended with no valid reason. I still believe that we need only one auction site but multiple ways to pay for your purchases. Please take PayPal out business, they have ruined the market with their stupidity. Right now they have the say of what happenes to you on eBay. I’ve been in business for almost 10 years on ebay. I still believe they are a great asset to all sellers and buyers. The only thing that is holding the market back is Paypal. WE NEED OPTIONS. ReAL competition to Paypal is a need. Real competition to Paypal’s competition is a must………
Let’s shout it the american way! Yeehaw!! A trusted powerhouse name as Google, uhm oh Ebay your about to take a well deserved fall. We told you enough was enough!! Let’s bank on it 50% plus you will lose to Google! I see you down sizing,getting smart, Or with any luck going under! Oh Google is rumered to have a payment service on the horizon also. Ouch that’s gonna hurt! Thank-You Google!! We Love You!!!!!
Does anyone know if Google will accept Paypal as one of the payment options for their auctions?
I welcome new business ventures. The more the merrier. Online internet auctions-a near monopoly by you-know-who.Please do not accept reproductions & rubbish.
PayPal has the worst customer service around. Their policies border on criminal. Thank god someone is finally standing up to them.
Fantastic news, delighted Ebay will finally have serious competition, I will be one of the first to join up, Ebay & Paypal have cornered & exploited the market & its customers for far to long.
I hope you don’t start out with all of the BUY IT NOW, that isn’t an auction, that is buying in a market, it sure gets tiresome when there are page after page of all buy it now, like there are on e-bay, I am about to quit e-bay, but that is just one of the reasons, all of the hype about the fabulous money that can be made on e-bay is just that, hype. Go GO GO Google, mama always did like you best, and so do I.
only good things to say about ebay forcing me to relist a least 45 items at an extra cost to me each time.
only goog things to say about ebay forcing me to upgrade my account 3 times at an extra cost to me each time.
only good things to say about hiding the contact of my highest bidders so i could not discuss the sale of the item they have bid on.
can you see how they have taught me to lie like their substandard staff.
i cannot express the delight i would have knowing ebay staff are having to apply for a job where you would at least need a pea for a brain.
Go Google. I will leave eBay in a New York minute as soon as you’re up and running. Please have a section for vintage toy guns and please don’t make us stick an orange plug in the barrel. EBay implies that this is a federal law. Federal law only applies to newly manufactured replica guns. EBay staff is either to ignorant to understand the law or they have a hidden agenda to discourage the sale of vintage toy guns. I suspect the latter. Just don’t get greedy and keep the fees reasonable. Keep the site simple and easy to use. That is all it will take.
After 5 years of being overcharged by EBAY and PAYPAL …I welcome Google based Auctions with open arms…Everyone who I have spoken top about GOOGLE Auctions has replied favorably. Ebay needs its comeuppance!
Just keep it simple and charge a flat rate for listing and you are a shoe-in for taking the wind allouta Ebay’s sales. PLEASE HURRY!
Katydid
Another increase from ebay. Great! Google , please hurry, we are dying here. Ebay thinks they own the world. They are like democrats. Always want something for nothing. Please open soon!
Please GOOGLE give us a choice for auction and down with the evil empire – May the force be with us all – Please give us an update so we have something to look forward to. Just waiting to jump ship. GO GOOGLE
I can’t wait for google auctions either, i’m a silver powerseller on eBay and will jump ship as soon as google auctions are open. Hurry up and get it running please!!
Ebay is greedy they just announced they are uping the Ebay store seller fees by 250 % Starting Aug 22 2006.Last year they uped the monthly store fee from 9.95 per month to 15.95 per month the item listing fee was .02 now they are uping it to .05 on Aug 22, 2006 plus the final value fees have shot up and extra 3% they are greedy greedy greedy.
I was hoping Google would start auctions , but we have heard about this since well over 1 1/2 years so where is google on this did they quit or are they still thinking about it I sure wish they would start auctions there are thousands of new seller that would leave ebay very quickly if they did but I have not heard any real new input that they are going to open auctions now, if someone does have info I’m sure alot of us would like to know if it’s going to happen or is it all a big pipe dream ?????From and unhappy Ebay seller.
EBAY again raises its fees – this time in store inventory – by up to 500%. Hurry up Google and lets wipe out FEEBAY.
I’ll be jumping off to Google immediately if they start an auction site. eBay has had no competition for too long now so we’ve all been held to ransom by their ever growing greediness. Their new fee hike has done it for me – an almost 50% hike in small shop fees & almost double the final value fees show they know just where to hit so it hurts the weakest & smallest eBayers hardest. We’ll happily leave you in droves eBay.
Just give us the opportunity. We’ll be there. Been a memberof eBay since 1996, powerseller, 2700+ store listings, etc — just give us a viable option and be prepared for a massive migration.
When is it coming? Is it? E-bay just keeps getting more and more greedy! Now they want to up the store fees because too many people are listing in the stores and “Not the auction platform” that made E-bay famous. They have got it wrong – the POWERSELLERS made E-bay famous. The long term sellers made ebay a sucess – defending the company and platform to newbies for years! Of course we are selling more in the stores!! There are a million more people selling on e-bay than a few years ago, and where I used to sell 90 of 100 auctions – I only sell 20 of 100 due to the HIGH COMPETITION WITH THE SAME ITEMS. With the CRAZY high fees, that profit goes to pay for the 100 listings I listed in the first place! They are making money – NOT ME.
Please GOOGLE HURRY. E-bay won’t know what hit them when they loose all the sellers who got them to where they are today.
Please, please, please….let this be true!
We’re all counting on you Google to ‘save’ us from ebay’s dictatorship!
Oh please tell me this is true! I am so here if it happens. I am a silver poweseller on ebay, and a small store owner as well (300 or so items). I have been there for 6 years with about 2 years time taken off. Boy the changes! It’s a farce, but our only real option. GIVE US ANOTHER ONE!
(is hoping ebay is reading this forum)
Go Google! Trust me when I say this, if you get it up and running most of the australian ebay community will be onsite as both sellers and buyers within DAYS. Get your own license to print money up and running soon, save us please, I beg you, halve all the fees etc and wipe FEEBAY from the pages of time, relegated to the history books for once and for all, the gouging will spell its end
The sooner Google gets into the auction scene, the better. eBay’s monopoly has promoted fraud, dishonesty, false promises, theft and their privacy policy is not worth anything. Make your entry soon, Google.
Google you would have atleast 2,000 stores come straight to your site, from eBay AU alone! The sellers there are fed up and ready to migrate and rid themselves of GreedBay forever! As one said above, it would be a license to print money!
Please hurry ebay fees are going up again!
Does anyone know when this will happen, and if it will happen?
Hey Google, I’m an eBay Power Seller who will give you my business immediately when your auction site is ready to go! EBay’s fees were already too high, but they have really crossed the line this time with this kick in the face being delivered to all of their most dedicated sellers on August 22, 2006! Anyone, please e-mail me at ALISONG777@aol.com to let me know when and how I can sell my items through Google. The down-sizing of my eBay store has already begun…
I for one would like to see a viable selling venue for small time sellers such as myself that doesn’t undergo all of the technical glitches, poor management issues, and rampant amounts of either fraudulent listings or listings in violation of the rules that are allowed to continue after they have been brought to Ebay’s attention. I for one am getting tired of tolerating Ebay’s tactics, and I am more than ready to join up with another venue that can offer the site traffic Ebay does without any of their usual stunts.
Due to health problems beyond my control, I’ve been forced to become a homebound person, unable to work. E-bay became my bread & butter & saved me from becoming a homeless person. That was 5 years ago…. Today, I’m nearing the welfare lines. You can only eat so many PB sandwiches… I’m paying e-bay to clean out my house. I haven’t seen black in 2 years! I welcome a change, change is always good, except when it’s all you have left after greedbay takes their BIG cut… I’ll be waiting & I’ll be ready…. But PLEASE hurry!!!! It’s more then knocking, it’s tearing down the house!
It is about time Ebay had some competition. All Google will have to do is set up a true and honest working customer service network and a little advertising to the effect that there is a true live customer service center that
works and not have caned and scripted responces. Direct contact to each and every department and not just to the puppets on string such as ebay. Customer service, in my opinion, will be ebay’s downfall and should Google have the customer service for both buyer and seller and actually work to resolve in the correct and right manner. Google will pass ebay in a short time. Lets go Google thousands of ebay sellers are waiting and depending on you!!!!!
Dear Google:
I own Kuntry Kritters, and am an ebay powerseller. Due to Fee-bay’s latest rate hike, I have dumped over 300 listings from my store there. I will continue to keep but a skeleton store to generate new leads, while I do the bulk of my business from my website. I am looking for a new home that has the financial ability to generate a decent amount of traffic / to let buyers know that ebay isnt the only game in town. Please email me at risaris@woh.rr.com when you are up and running so that i can make sure to set up my store immediately. I’m looking forward to a new challenge!
Sincerely,
Larisa Butcher
http://www.kuntrykritters.com