I've been on ebid for several months. Got tired of ebay's games and did a search for alternatives to ebay and found ebid. I bit the bullet and paid for lifetime+ membership. I've also paid for listing upgrades and I was listing every item I had to sell here routinely. My results? Not a single sale here. And it's frustrating to spend money without results. So Ebid needs to promote itself. Ebid has a trust issue with buyers who are uncertain if they can count on items being sold here. Before I started selling regularly, I MIGHT have stumbled upon Ebid when I was searching for stuff to buy, but I couldn't tell you with absolute certainty if I did becasue I'd never heard of ebid before!
Ebid really needs to go after buyers. Explain WHY this place is better for the buyers than the competition? They've obviously drawn a number of sellers by explaining how sellers are better off here but I'm not seeing the buyers here!
Ebid, do you want to become extremely popular? Are you ready to see a boom in both buyers and sellers?? I strongly suggest advertising on national/syndicated talk radio shows. I listen to several of these every day and because I trust the hosts, I trust the advertisers! The topics aside, the hosts/stations give credibility to a site simply because they are advertised there and millions of people hear the advertisements. Newspaper ads don't reach nearly as far. TV ads are generally local or not in prime time viewing to do any good. And most people DVR stuff and skip the commercials anyway or stream stuff via the internet.. Radio ads still reach people!
I think its worth considering!