eBay vs. Amazon: The Gap Grows More Narrow
As we go into the final quarter of 2009 the race will get tight for the top of the mountain. What I think many forecasted would take place years down the road could possibly manifest in the next 4 months?!? Could Amazon overtake eBay in the 4th quarter?
I could be speculating and accelerating this thought, but IF the changes that eBay is planning for October 2009 miss-fire, Amazon could put the smack down on the king of e-commerce. The changes to eBay are mostly geared toward facilitating better sellers and seller experience. Although many of the changes are masked and marked as "improving the buyer experience", do they really? Are they improving buyer experience directly or only do by default?
For me, what was lacking on eBay changes is a fundamental OVERHAUL of the antiquated interface. While eBay may want to distance itself of the old style auction format, they made NO announced changes to the distance from the old interface?
An average search page on eBay gives up nearly 30% of the above to fold real estate to Banner Ads, Multiple Search Bars and space wasters.
Banner ads on an ecommerce website? damn dude that is so "2000 and late"! Any given eCommerce web designer would tell you that multiple search bars are confusing and space waste. While a good best practice is that you should push to SELL above the fold as that real estate is the most important part of the customer view.
A quick view comparison of the two site searches shows that Amazon is PRIMED to sell in the new millennium, while eBay seems to be stuck in the 90′s. What is most telling to me about an Amazon search vs. and eBay search is simple.
- Amazon will display just about EVERYTHING I need to know about the product right in search, while eBay makes me click and READ…ewe.
- eBay shows MULTIPLE listing of the same exact item over and over, while Amazon rolls the duplicate items into 1 listing.
- eBay search shows only 3 items above the fold while Amazon shows 5.
I could go on and on with this comparative analysis…And I just might one day soon, but for right now? I am afraid that eBay spends way too much time trying to keep sellers from selling stuff instead of making it EASIER for buyers to buy stuff. That could ultimately leave it open to conquest by the competitor sooner than expected by anyone!
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maybe lavonne drummond should try selling the rights to her baby’s name on amazon. ha! there’s a really funny article over here about the arkansas mom’s whacky idea: http://onthebutton.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/mom-sells-naming-rights-to-son/
09 Q4 could spell the beginning of the end. remember about 12 weeks ago facebook passed myspace is uniques? Myspace announced management changes and purges, voluntary departures, brain drain of large proportions. Any way, figures don't lie and we know traffic is all-important.
i don't agree, here my results. i sell on both websites I listed 1,800 items on both ebay/half.com and amazon, they are identical items.
my sales after 30 days are as follow
Amazon 40 sales total 547.25
Ebay 220 sales total 2,770.00
half. com 43 sales total 477.36
Fee's paid each company
Amazon 182.95
Ebay 366.30
half.com 57.74
dollar for dollar, half.com has the lowest seller fee's
then Ebay, and Amazon fee's are way higher.
i tried amazon for 30 days, because i read a blog that the
fee's were lower than half.com and ebay. Obviously that not
true. I no longer to sell on Amazon . It's not worth updating
my inventory, when they charge way to much in seller fee's
I really upset at the blog i read, where they said amazon fee's were lower
than ebay. At least ebay, give you 20 percent discount off of fee's
for being a good sale, amazon doesn't do anything to honor good sellers.
i don't agree with your opinions, of amazon closing the gap,
perhaps you should ask amazon, to see how many sellers, quit
amazon per month, because they find out ebay you sell more
and they don't hit you in the pocket book as much as amazon.
Seller fee's paid amazon 182.95
Seller fee's paid Ebay 366. 39
Seller fee's paid ebay 366.60
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I tend to agree. On the long run (by 2012) amazon will take the lead. amazon is clearly the best horse to be on now:
http://www.imonlinegroup.com/blog/amazon-market…
I tend to agree. On the long run (by 2012) amazon will take the lead. amazon is clearly the best horse to be on now:
http://www.imonlinegroup.com/blog/amazon-market…