Has anyone else read this?

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randydreammaker.blogspot.com/p/my-favorite-places-to-sell-online.html

I'm interested in what he said about Bonanza.  I'm not selling there yet and wondered which of the different levels ya'll are using.  Other than Ebay, does anyone use the other venues he talks about?  I've not checked any of them out yet.

[val2525]

Interesting. I've heard of most of those places, not tried them though except for ecrater and bonanza.

I *thought* the variance in Bonanza memberships had more to do with the placement fees that google was charging, than any attempt by Bonanza to throttle sales on the Bonanza site itself. The fees changed when Google went to the paid product placement/ad model, and Bonanza set it up so you could pay for that google exposure or not. You didn't pay, you weren't uploaded to google, you has less traffic/sales. I wonder if that is what he is referring to as "throttling"?

[RetroMonde]

I dropped Bonanza a few months ago when I realized that it was possible to spread myself too thin, lol. The different levels & membership options were confusing and I honestly don't think they get (or drive) the traffic to make paying extra worth the $$. If I decide to try another venue besides eBay, Etsy and my website I'll try Ecrater. 

After reading the article, I don't understand why he's calling it "throttling". It seems more like a "pay to play" thing to me but that's splitting hairs, isn't it? 

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I wasn't sure what he meant or if he was a flake. This was on a FB post I saw and it was interesting. I've debated Bonanza but I've been lazy about getting it set up. If it's pay to play or throttled, I'm not sure if I want to. That he ranked it his #2 was surprising to me since I'd read post here and on other boards about how dead it was. Thanks for the input.

[val2525]

You will have to do more 'advertising' yourself on the other sites. The other sites don't advertise and don't have the traffic ebay does. Sellers forget both of these critical points, dump stuff over on other sites. then get upset and blame the site when nothing sells because they worked the other site like eBay.

I have seen lots of ads lately for Tradesy though.

[RetroMonde]

That's very true Val. Ebay does deliver traffic to our listings and so does Etsy. I don't sell on Tradesy but have also seen their ads so that's good news for their sellers. It's tough getting traffic other places.

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I just sold another item on Tradesy, I really like that site even with a few bugs they have. I'm already tweeting, using FB and pinterest to drive traffic to listings. The problem is the links I tweet are only good for a max of 30 days. I see a lot of people retweeting or pinning stuff that is now a bad link since I use sell similar. If I were doing this with Tradesy or Bonanza those links would still be good since things don't end.