If amazon.com has auctions.. why are they not promoted? It is hard to find auctions, so why sell on auction?
1 EddieNygma, regarding your answer "It seems to me that Amazon is more interested in selling through the Marketplace":Thanks for the response, but it is frustrating because I did not even know Amazon had auctions. (So much for their advertising), and I found out through a Seller forum on e-bay, so wanted to find something better than e-bay, and I trust Amazon more than e-bay, so I thought I would check this out. Well to my confusion, I looked for almost an hour on Amazon trying to find it.In my account it showed "my auctions", but of course I was not a registered auction user.
I registered. Then, I could find nothing.So, I tried all the help things, and could not find much about it. Then, I checked all the tabs... nothing.
So, I feel sorry for the poor people trying to sell (which I finally found) and of course they have no bids. Why? Because nobody knows its there.
How can anyone bid when Amazon keeps it a secret.It is the bread and butter people that keep e-bay going, as well as the mid and larger business. There is indeed a need for a "trusted auction merchant"... I loved that I did not have to go through paypal, to use the Amazon already set up forms of payment. It is a "better mousetrap."
But with no customers to frequent it, it is futile. I surely wish Amazon would re-visit this. There is now (especially with reading the boards at e-bay) a desire for both and a desire to use Amazon.It is too bad they are letting it die on the vine.
I like Amazon for lots of things as a buyer, and I would really trust them as an auctioneer as well. Since Amazon does not even read these things, of course my comments are unimportant, but it makes me feel better that I have said them.It is time for someone, and perhaps now and not when Amazon started it, to give E-bay a run because, today.... they would actually come out on top and be a terrific competitor. There is a market for this business.
I am speaking from the current buyer/seller/consumer standpoint. There is now a need. And, it may not have worked when they tried it, but I do believe with all my heart, it would win today!
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2 jennmaine, regarding your answer "Amazon scaled back auctions back in 2001, according to this article": Yes, I am not exactly sure where amazon. Com is going with the auctions, but it surely is low profile. So, if you wanted to use it... no traffic as I see it.So, in reality, no reason to use them.
Ebay on the other hand for a new seller is subjected to tons of scams, bogus bids, and terrible problems. Thanks for your comments.
First off, no one here is an Amazon employee. I'm just answering your question to try to help based on what I've seen and my perspective. Auctions have never really taken off with Amazon.
They still have them, but the people who come to Amazon.com in order to buy things seem to want a "safer" kind of experience, so I think that's part of the reason why the auctions aren't heavily promoted. Also, Auctions never really took off. There were a number of reasons for this, but in part I think they've been seen as a failed experiment but Amazon still isn't willing to cut the cord.
There have also been a few changes over the years with Amazon, and over the past year or so they've tried to transform their marketplace in a way that makes it more appealing to sellers and buyers. Below is a good account I found from an Amazon employee on their experience with auctions:Amazon Auctions was designed to be a frontal assault on eBay, reproducing everything they had in one fell swoop. Amazon thought its tens of millions of customers would immediately adapt to auctions and small businesses would flock to our site.
It was an aggressive move that was foolishly arrogant. When the site launched, it was technically superior to eBay's, faster, better search, and several new useful features. The inventory was reasonable, but not large.
Over the following months, the site did not grow as rapidly as some at Amazon optimistically projected. Amazon customers turned out to be quite timid about exploring the auction site, fearful of the lack of guarantees and customer service, unattracted to the idea of bidding. Amazon Auctions stalled.
Sellers moved away. Eventually, Amazon just gave up on it. While Amazon Auctions occasionally twitches in its sad resting spot on the current Amazon site, it is all but dead now.It did not have to be that way.
We were building this from scratch, and there was a lively debate inside Amazon about what we should build. The debate fell into three camps. The main group argued that we should duplicate eBay and assault them head on.
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