HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS ABOUT EBID
(and why I remain here since 2008): If you create a website from a company ie GoDaddy, you are given the tools to create your pages. The company does not advertise your website, you have to go out there and work at it yourself (all the time paying a fee for your website on a monthly basis) which becomes quite costly if you are financially on a tight budget. Plus you have to make sure you make enough sales to cover the website costs. Ebid, depending on your membership ie Platinum, (one time payment for lifetime) give you all the tools you need to create your 5 free stores with unlimited listings and up to 15 images per listing, for free, your choice of shipping options and payment options, your selling terms and conditions etc. Basically, everything you really need to sell with a 2% FVF on items sold. That's it. For me, it's akin to having a website (almost) but with some very plausible legal/liability restrictions in place to protect the Ebid owners, plus they are not constantly bombarding us with new stupid rules every 5 minutes and restricting us in our selling. I treat my membership as if it was my own website and I have to go out there in the big WWW and advertise my goods (which can be a lot of fun for me as I can pick and choose how and when) and I don't have to worry about any monthly website fees. Now, if you want Ebid to advertise, which countries should they do it in? Just the UK? or just USA? What about Canada? What about all the other countries taking part in Ebid? It is going to be very costly if they involve multiple countries. So now the question remains, what are you willing to pay Ebid to advertise for you/country? Listing fees? Higher FVFs? Monthly store fees? What about investors who will eventually want their share of the loot? Do we really want to go down the eBay route or Etsy route where once, they were successful bidding and/or handcrafted selling sites but now bombarded with a gazillion companies listing cheap outbidding/craft items pushing the small businesses out because of higher costs. For me, Ebid is perfect, it gives me all the tools I need, they leave me alone (as long as I don't break the rules), I get to decide when and where I advertise. Plus their customer service is really good. Just last week I had a problem listing a new item, I notified them and within 24hrs (it was about 14hrs) they got back to me and fixed the issue. I know Ebid is not a high-falutin mega technical site, but it is a good solid site for my needs. I don't sell much, but that's ok for me. I can park my listings on Ebid for as long as it takes and not pay an extra penny to do so.