Buying and Selling on eBay: Tips, Tricks, Problems & Questions - Page 59

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Originally Posted by mjt73106 

I have noticed that the traffic reports have been suspicious for quite a while, maybe eBay is trying to rework some numbers or I suspect some data feeds that do not seem to work correctly at times.

 

As we work through all of these issues with problem buyers please do not forget to update the black list. It actually does work. A few weeks ago I received a message from a would be bidder that told me that they were having trouble entering their bid on one of my auctions. You guessed it! They were on the black list and I had added them to my blocked bidder list. Since eBay has taken the approach that sellers are defenseless in regard to bad buyer behavior the best way to defend ourselves is to have great intel.        

I had significantly less traffic for the last two months. At first I thought it was due to fewer listings and different handling times...etc. I noticed the other day I still had super low numbers...even with a listing featured on Put This On. The 1000+ PTO hits are not even showing up at all. 

I noticed that someone had added a buyer to the black list a few names after I had listed the same user. Be sure to cut and paste the list once a month or so to avoid any problems.

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Originally Posted by VLSI 


My views have plummeted. Granted I've hardly had time to list anything, but what gives?

I figure I will give it a few more weeks to correct itself and then I'll call them. It doesn't really affect anything, but I like to see where my buyers are coming from to see if I can capitalize. 

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Originally Posted by capnwes 

I figure I will give it a few more weeks to correct itself and then I'll call them. It doesn't really affect anything, but I like to see where my buyers are coming from to see if I can capitalize. 

I used to look at the traffic count 20 times a day, it can be very counter intuitive some times, especially when they seem to freeze for a day or two and then double over a few hours??????

Yes, the quality of the pictures will be much better in a DSLR IF you get decent lenses for it. If you get a cheap crappy lens it might be only as good, but there's some cheap excellent lenses for each platform as long as you don't need to capture sports action or shoot in really low light. 

How exactly an image should be processed is a wide and varied subject... Just sayin'.

This book was/is pretty much the standard book every photography student (myself included) I've known used to figure things out. It was mandatory reading actually for beginning photo students. I haven't looked at any of the new editions, but my super old one covered everything you'd need to know about the processes/reasoning/methods of photography. The version I'm linking you to will be the latest, that covers all sorts of digital things I assume. It's pricey, but you can grab one of the older editions (for next to nothing in comparison) and get all the same technique in terms of what everything on the camera does and why. It might used a film based camera, but light is still light...

Photography.