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Post by chapeaunoir on Dec 16, 2020 20:32:49 GMT
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Post by val2525 on Dec 17, 2020 1:39:25 GMT
I think eBay should have partnered with Shipt, Instacart, and other local same day delivery services long before the pandemic hit, but certainly after it hit. One reason I've been shopping Amazon lately (even though I hate the site) and Walmart.com is because they can guarantee faster delivery than eBay can. As a seller, if eBay used the local delivery services, I'd gladly offer same day shipping prior to x cut off time. eBay, if they'd reacted fast enough, could have cut a good deal with Shipt and Instacart. Now though, I'm not so sure eBay would get as good a deal since major retailers are now working with the local delivery services. Target offers same day thru Shipt, and I had Instacart deliver something from CVS this afternoon.
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Post by kritter on Dec 17, 2020 2:21:43 GMT
ebay is too busy growing their business by charging their sellers more. There is nothing innovative about their business plan at all.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Dec 17, 2020 18:41:34 GMT
I think eBay's marketplace structure would make this difficult.
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Post by val2525 on Dec 17, 2020 19:39:08 GMT
I think eBay's marketplace structure would make this difficult. What aspect?
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Post by chapeaunoir on Dec 17, 2020 22:51:42 GMT
I think eBay's marketplace structure would make this difficult. What aspect? The fact that eBay is a distributed marketplace without any central logistics - they'd have to get a lot of sellers of different sizes to offer an instacart style delivery system. Maybe they could get some of the mega commodities sellers on it, but people will generally go to sites that have more unified delivery.
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Post by val2525 on Dec 18, 2020 2:26:59 GMT
I think Ebay could make it work, although it might only be available in cities where Instacart or Shipt has a sizeable presence.
I think part of it, though, is that eBay is too cheap to pay for the quality site programming it would take to make it work.
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Post by kritter on Dec 18, 2020 2:32:02 GMT
Definitely above anybody's expertise currently working there.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Dec 18, 2020 5:51:43 GMT
I think Ebay could make it work, although it might only be available in cities where Instacart or Shipt has a sizeable presence. I think part of it, though, is that eBay is too cheap to pay for the quality site programming it would take to make it work. Yeah, that last goes without saying - sometimes the site seems to be stuck together with duct tape and 9 year olds. Also, and I may be really prejudiced by helping on the forums where people go for help or to complain, but the amount of WHINING and the utter lack of business sense of so many sellers at least that I see (particularly about MP) would make this a non-starter. Instacart, as I know it (I'd investigated it to see about working there, but they demand you use a car and that's not what I want) is generally a local option - who would do the pick up from all of these little sellers, many of whom are too paranoid to let anyone on their front stoop? and then delivery - would it be last mile or? There are almost no eBay sellers that I know of in my area, and I only know about three people who shop there. I think as much as logistics/bad programming, it's the seemingly typical eBay seller - a bit older and rather dated (again, what I come across on the boards). We here might be cool with it, but I think we're a lot more open to various ways to sell.
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Post by val2525 on Dec 18, 2020 16:14:02 GMT
Instacart, as I know it (I'd investigated it to see about working there, but they demand you use a car and that's not what I want) is generally a local option - who would do the pick up from all of these little sellers, many of whom are too paranoid to let anyone on their front stoop? and then delivery - would it be last mile or? There are almost no eBay sellers that I know of in my area, and I only know about three people who shop there. That's the whole point of shipt, instacart, uber, etc. It's local. And the seller does not have to be in your immediate area, but in your metro somewhere. Sellers who don't participate would lose out on sales, period. Paranoia has nothing to do with it. Those sellers probably get deliveries from Dominos or the local pizza joint, doordash, etc. So this would be the reverse - the order would be picked up by the service, not the buyer, and delivered to the buyer. But I'm afraid the ship has sailed. So many retailers are offering this service now, eBay lost the chance to be among the first. Now they're going to have to play catch up and pay for it.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Dec 19, 2020 0:32:30 GMT
Trying to explain that this would be the same as doordash, etc., may not penetrate. I see it that way, but many wouldn't, just that there's some random Ebay seller/buyer wanting to come over to drop something off/pick something up, so yeah, paranoia on the part of some people is a contributing factor - I hear about it all the time - 'meet at police station, I always have a loaded gun with me, bring male relative etc.', none of which would even remotely occur to me, but is a concern, particularly with women.
One way it would be better than Craigslist, Next Door, etc., is there would be a commitment to the local pickup/drop off cycle because of the centralised payment system. It would work better in more densely populated areas.
I can't see in my wildest dreams eBay being able to make this happen site-wide - they couldn't even get centralised shipping off the ground. But there COULD be a site section where something like this is offered in a more organised manner - that would remove the worry about p2p in-person contact because the entire section would be set up that way.
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Post by val2525 on Dec 19, 2020 1:53:02 GMT
Ebay would have to limit the local delivery to sellers in cities where the delivery service has a reliable presence. In that instance, it would be a opt-in just like Global Shipping, but limited to select zip codes.
Much like Walmart does for it's delivery service.
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Post by chapeaunoir on Dec 19, 2020 2:27:27 GMT
That's probably the best way to do it, or a small cohort of zips within a radius.
TBH, I'd rather they just fix the site, though. Stuff like the default shipping bouncing all over the place.
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Post by denise15601 on Dec 27, 2020 21:56:15 GMT
I don't think that eBay could compete adequately with Facebook Marketplace.
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