Why Are eBay Sellers Finding 100 Million Listings Amazing?
Why Are eBay Sellers Finding 100 Million Listings Amazing? 31 March 2010 EventHorizon1984
On March 30th eBay converted many product listings residing in seller stores to what are known as "Fixed Price listings." Which garnered a few statistical observations.
March 30th is here, and now we know.... Mar 30, 2010 8:12 AM
I obviously can't vouch for the accuracy of the count, but....
I just looked at the PSU chart. It indicates an increase between yesterday at this time and today of about 55%....a net gain between now and then of something like 55 million listings....for a total of about 101 million.
are the auction counts a little wonky? Does Ebay really have 101 million
items listed now?
They are referring to eBay's "101 million" auction listing count on the PowerSellersUnite.com Auction site count chart. That chart shows the number of eBay auctions at a specific point in time. The posters are rightfully puzzled because auction listings are not "Fixed Price listings", i.e. the auction count should essentially be the same.
Well we won't talk about 'what's up?' with the statistics, but we will peer into how many listings can be found on eBay "on any given day"?
"Our Marketplaces platforms include more than 140.0 million listings on any given day and make available to our users a wide variety and selection of goods"
Either 40 million listings vanished, presuming the unlikely event that there was no increase in the number of listings during 2009, or eBay hasn't finished converting store products to fixed price listings.
eBay's listing count should be interesting to watch during April.
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Why Are eBay Sellers Finding 100 Million Listings Amazing?
Why Are eBay Sellers Finding 100 Million Listings Amazing? 31 March 2010 EventHorizon1984
On March 30th eBay converted many product listings residing in seller stores to what are known as "Fixed Price listings." Which garnered a few statistical observations.
March 30th is here, and now we know.... Mar 30, 2010 8:12 AM
I obviously can't vouch for the accuracy of the count, but....
I just looked at the PSU chart. It indicates an increase between yesterday at this time and today of about 55%....a net gain between now and then of something like 55 million listings....for a total of about 101 million.
are the auction counts a little wonky? Does Ebay really have 101 million
items listed now?
They are referring to eBay's "101 million" auction listing count on the PowerSellersUnite.com Auction site count chart. That chart shows the number of eBay auctions at a specific point in time. The posters are rightfully puzzled because auction listings are not "Fixed Price listings", i.e. the auction count should essentially be the same.
Well we won't talk about 'what's up?' with the statistics, but we will peer into how many listings can be found on eBay "on any given day"?
"Our Marketplaces platforms include more than 140.0 million listings on any given day and make available to our users a wide variety and selection of goods"
Either 40 million listings vanished, presuming the unlikely event that there was no increase in the number of listings during 2009, or eBay hasn't finished converting store products to fixed price listings.
eBay's listing count should be interesting to watch during April.
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"We want information"
Number 2, The Prisoner (1967)
Why Are eBay Sellers Finding 100 Million Listings Amazing?
31 March 2010
EventHorizon1984
On March 30th eBay converted many product listings residing in seller stores to what are known as "Fixed Price listings." Which garnered a few statistical observations.
An eBay Stores Discussion Board thread "March 30th is here, and now we know...." had itspostingtime start off with:
While on Power Sellers Unite, sammicat lead the thread "auction count off" with:
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Post subject: auction count off?
are the auction counts a little wonky? Does Ebay really have 101 million items listed now?
They are referring to eBay's "101 million" auction listing count on the PowerSellersUnite.com Auction site count chart. That chart shows the number of eBay auctions at a specific point in time. The posters are rightfully puzzled because auction listings are not "Fixed Price listings", i.e. the auction count should essentially be the same.
Well we won't talk about 'what's up?' with the statistics, but we will peer into how many listings can be found on eBay "on any given day"?
In eBay CEO John Donahoe's first solo United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 10-K filing for "the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009", there is no mention of the number of listings on eBay. As we tend to say, it's up the reader to figure out where this metric went.
Under the reign of eBay CEO Margaret Whitman, things were different in the SEC filings. You will find in eBay's United States Securities and Exchange Commission 10-K filing for "the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006" the following statement:
Which essentially matches the "101 million" count.
Here's the thing. What to know what's in the 10-K filing for "the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008"? The year Margaret Whitman stepped down and John Donahoe took over.
Either 40 million listings vanished, presuming the unlikely event that there was no increase in the number of listings during 2009, or eBay hasn't finished converting store products to fixed price listings.
eBay's listing count should be interesting to watch during April.
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