Nagging question?

#1

I was doing an review of alternative sites to make sure I'm not missing out on a hot venue and I noticed something that I have not seen addressed previously

OLA and Bidville have a disproportionate number of Sports Cards Listings verses anything else. For OLA their site claims 6 million listings, of which nearly 5 million are sports cards.

I even see OLA touting their increased number of listings, but from what I saw, that increase has been in sports cards, from 4 to 5 million.

What's even more troubling, when I look at the sites category totals, I cannot find the other million listings.

Using ebay as for comparison they currently have 370,000 sports card listings. Thats abouts 5%.

On Bidville it's almost 75%.

On OLA it's almost 83%.

What going on? What am I missing? Comments?

DDT

#2

maybe you need to sell sports cards. lol

#3

I didn't thought of it that way!

#4

I owe you a better explanation. on e-bay. when I post 500 cards with the starting price of $0.99. and only half sales. I would still have to pay e-bay listing fees for all 500 cards. total cost for just the listing fees $125.00. e-bay would makes more out of the deal then I do.
on ola.com. for $8.00 a month I can place as many auctions as I wish, with no additional charges. no relistment fees. no sale fees.
so it make sense if you sell any large collection. sell it on ola.com. Not to long ago e-bay would have had many more than 400,000 sports cards listed. But there increase in fees has caused many sports card sellers to go else were.

#5

are sport cards still strong enough to justify the time to create 5 million listings? obviously you didn't do 5 million listings yourself, but that seem like a load of work to list 5m.

DDT

#6

so far I have sold over 5000 sports cards on ola and around 400 silver coins

#7

About the work, When I posted on e-bay. I posted about 100 items a day. if these cards didn't sell I would have to re list them again. or leave them off. On ola if an item dose not sell. I can set them to re list automatically. so my auction count expands every day. my buyer have a larger choice of items to look at.
I can seller my item cheaper on ola. when I post an item on ola. I don't have to worry that it must sell or I will lose money. If it doesn't sell this week. It might sell next week. It still only costing me $8.00 a month.

#8

Hello Sportscards,
I also have a nagging question about OLA.com and that is why do no pictures ever show up?
For the last 3 months or so, whenever they last redesigned the site, no pictures will load correctly for me. Not one picture comes up when I view an auction listing.
I was maybe thinking I must have to sign in to the site before a picture loads? Is that right? It seems like not a very good idea to require a potential customer to sign in before they can browse the auction listings...
I am 100% hopeful for alternative auction sites to develop into viable selling platforms, but I don't hold much promise when no pictures load. I don't have this problem with any other site?
You may not be aware of any problems, so I thought I would ask the nagging question that has bothered me for so long......

The Coyote

#9

are sport cards still strong enough to justify the time to create 5 million listings? obviously you didn't do 5 million listings yourself, but that seem like a load of work to list 5m.

I guess it is if you have 5 million sports cards lol

**#10**

coyoteknife wrote (View Post): › Hello Sportscards,
I also have a nagging question about OLA.com and that is why do no pictures ever show up?
For the last 3 months or so, whenever they last redesigned the site, no pictures will load correctly for me. Not one picture comes up when I view an auction listing.
I was maybe thinking I must have to sign in to the site before a picture loads? Is that right? It seems like not a very good idea to require a potential customer to sign in before they can browse the auction listings...
I am 100% hopeful for alternative auction sites to develop into viable selling platforms, but I don't hold much promise when no pictures load. I don't have this problem with any other site?
You may not be aware of any problems, so I thought I would ask the nagging question that has bothered me for so long......

I'm sorry your having problems with picture. I have never had the problem you described. I never had to sign on to down load pictures

The Coyote

**#11**

I'm sorry your having problems with picture. I have never had the problem you described. I never had to sign on to down load pictures

**#12**

coyote:
During the upgrade a few MONTHS ago we all had problems with the new OLA site.
Since then, OLA has operated easily for it's regsitered users/sellers.

Some things sell well over there while more unique items (such as mine) take more more time to move no matter where you post them IMHO.
For what I pay annually at OLA, it's well worth the $$ I pay for the results and offsite sales! Very Happy

Online sellers must look at the year-end results and at what they pay in fees for those results in STR & FVF... Some things sell well at XXX site, while they don't sell at CCC site.