Promote ebid.net on Flickr

[madelaine]

Right.. I've joined a knitting group and posted a couple of pictures of my knitting (nothing to do with ebid). I've commented on a few pictures but mostly without mentioning ebid. I'm hoping that people will follow trails back to my profile or look at more of my pictures, which seems to be what I do when I'm on there.

I need some friends but don't really want to involve my address book. I have hunted for a few people I know but will do more of that.

[booksforsale]

Hi madelaine,

don't worry about having 'real' friends over at Flickr, most people have an agenda and an ego over there and WANT their photos to be seen by as many peeps as possible, so your 'friendship' will in almost all cases be welcome.

To make someone a friend:

If you are, for example, looking at someones picture you like, look for something like

"Uploaded on "March 17, 2008 by name"

click on the name bit

this should take you to the first page of their photosteam, and you should see a row of links like this near the top

Sets Tags Archives Favorites Profile

click on profile

On the profile page on the top right you will see

"Add name as a contact"

click on this, it will ask you to tick add as a friend or family - how literal you take this is up to you, though I think it basically sets the level of who can see your photos. In the case of promoting ebid.net, I always tick these because I want as much exposure as possible.

Often after you have added someone as a friend, you will get a message on the Flickr messaging system saying they have reciprocated your friendship and made you a friend.

Then the next step, if you haven't done so already, is to invite them to the ebid.net group on Flickr and spread the word.

[madelaine]

right, if you search in photos for ebid, you get 10 results - 7 are mine
If you search for ebid.net, you get 7... yes, you guessed, they are mine.

come on, someone else...

And they've made me administrator of one of the ebid groups.. It's lonely in there.

[BROOKMYRE]

Waste of time !

A review by nlc1964 on ebid.co.uk
January 5th, 2008



Author's product rating:

Layout & DesignVery poor NavigationHard How fast is this website?Very slow Quality of the ContentVery poor Range of Services / ProductsVery poor / few
Advantages:Absolutely none if you are a serious sellerDisadvantages:Amateur wanna be ebay site with virtually no buyers !
Recommend to potential buyers:no
Full reviewEbid is the biggest waste of time auction site on the net!
You are lucky if you can make 6 sales a year and even then you will probably land up with a non paying bidder.
Their forum the 'kitchen table' is run by a bunch of morons who love nothing more than to bully other members and spend all day and night spamming the boards with inane tosh.
The site is full of sellers selling counterfeit goods which spoils it for the honest people out there- rather spend the extra and go back to ebay is my advice! The site in general has a very clumsy layout and an extremely dated feel to it - It certainly isn't user friendly.
The old saying comes to mind - You get what you pay for , all that is cheap isn't neccessarily the best!

Have you guys seen this?! I don't know what vile person wrote it but a counter attack is required!vAs EBid is now the third best auction on Ciaobit seems to me that we need more reviews - I have just left mine. I know this was a previous topic but was so surprised at this review...

[madelaine]

Thanks for the heads up.. we can also all rate this review badly

[madelaine]

Right... I'm now admin on the two ebid groups (thanks for abandoning me booksforsale! ) I can only keep them alive if others post their pictures. I've changed the rules on the selling (as opposed to buying) group so links to ebay get deleted since a cheeky darkside seller had added a number of (very poor quality) pictures to it.

Please visit!

[Rednosty]

Anyone given Flickr a go yet?

What the flicker is flickr?

Well if its free count me in!

[madelaine]

www.flickr.com.. it's what yahoo photos became. You join, store your photos there.. make them public or private. If you join groups you can add photos to those groups.

[madelaine]

Special thanks to Blue Bedouin for continuing to post pictures to the flickr group. Please could we have some more? Just one visit a week, adding a picture (with a link to the listing or to your store), would be great. If 50 sellers did that, we'd have a group that moved up the rankings and appeared on the various random lists that turn up on the right when you are browsing round Flickr.

[madelaine]

A new seller has joined the ebid group on Flickr and the pictures look good.