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Post by starbrand on Dec 27, 2008 20:21:26 GMT -5
Wow. Mycomicshop has increased their listings to 363,000+ on eBay. Last time I checked just last week they were in the 260,000s, as was Mile High. Mile High is in the 270,000s at the moment, in a muscle-flexing excercise to grab market share between the two comic giants on eBay.
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Post by starbrand on Dec 30, 2008 22:53:07 GMT -5
To his credit, Chuck at Mile High started his company selling on eBay several years before mycomicshop started. I read a lot of stuff Chuck writes, and he wrote that he made a mistake years ago when he ignored the twice-weekly convention at Walnut Ca, just outside L.A. He said his mistake was conceding market share to the dealers at that show. I believe this was related to his store he had in Anaheim. He vowed not to concede market share on eBay. Several years later his chief competitors, mycomicshop, decided to join him. Maybe they should've read his column, Tales From The Database, more closely.
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Post by starbrand on Jan 6, 2009 10:51:29 GMT -5
A check just ten days later reveals mycomicshop has dropped to 207,000+ listings and Mile High is at 272,000+.
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Post by starbrand on Jan 25, 2009 23:52:41 GMT -5
Mike High now holds at 269,000+ with mycomicshop now at 242,000+.
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Post by starbrand on Feb 12, 2009 19:10:15 GMT -5
Mile High is at 199,000+ and Mycomicshop at 201,000+ at last check last night. Not sure anyone else finds this interesting, but I do!
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Post by G on Feb 13, 2009 2:00:55 GMT -5
What I find interesting about it is thinking of the sheer amount of listings that is and the amount of work that takes to put those kind of numbers online. I know I get burned out when I put 70 up. But the beauty of ebay is generally the more you have up, the better you seem to do. I wonder if there is teams of people they have making listings. I know Comic Kings used to tell me that he trusted no one else to do his listings, so he did them all himself. I wonder if these guys do the same thing or its really a team effort. I would think with that number, it would have to be a team effort. I do find it interesting. I find it more interesting that you go around and find out. I think most people dont stop to look.
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Post by Brother J on Feb 13, 2009 6:28:00 GMT -5
What I find interesting about it is thinking of the sheer amount of listings that is and the amount of work that takes to put those kind of numbers online. I know I get burned out when I put 70 up. But the beauty of ebay is generally the more you have up, the better you seem to do. I wonder if there is teams of people they have making listings. I know Comic Kings used to tell me that he trusted no one else to do his listings, so he did them all himself. I wonder if these guys do the same thing or its really a team effort. I would think with that number, it would have to be a team effort. I do find it interesting. I find it more interesting that you go around and find out. I think most people dont stop to look. there are computer programs that can list many different items at a time, I'm sure they use one of those. No way are they listing items one at a time. |
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Post by G on Feb 13, 2009 10:03:31 GMT -5
What I find interesting about it is thinking of the sheer amount of listings that is and the amount of work that takes to put those kind of numbers online. I know I get burned out when I put 70 up. But the beauty of ebay is generally the more you have up, the better you seem to do. I wonder if there is teams of people they have making listings. I know Comic Kings used to tell me that he trusted no one else to do his listings, so he did them all himself. I wonder if these guys do the same thing or its really a team effort. I would think with that number, it would have to be a team effort. I do find it interesting. I find it more interesting that you go around and find out. I think most people dont stop to look. there are computer programs that can list many different items at a time, I'm sure they use one of those. No way are they listing items one at a time. I know about the bulk uploaders. But even still, there is still a lot of work to be done even with that. You still have to get the scans in, the pricing info and any description you want to add about the book. |
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Post by starbrand on Feb 13, 2009 19:57:48 GMT -5
I'm also interested in seeing if they're trending upward or downward in their total number of listings. Just kind of interesting to me.
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Post by Brother J on Feb 14, 2009 3:34:38 GMT -5
there are computer programs that can list many different items at a time, I'm sure they use one of those. No way are they listing items one at a time. I know about the bulk uploaders. But even still, there is still a lot of work to be done even with that. You still have to get the scans in, the pricing info and any description you want to add about the book. Those don't apply in either of these companies' cases, either. They both use stock scans, not scans of each book, the pricing information is directly tied to the prices on their web sites, and neither company has any kind of descriptions to speak of in their auctions. The bulk of their listings at this point are all relists, anyway, so there isn't a lot of work involved at this point. Mile High doesn't even bother to remove listings of books that are sold off eBay, which is why so often people will buy an item off eBay from them just to find out it is sold out. |
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