Lazy Asses

This guy in my group had one sale...count it, ONE on Bonanza. And now he's the self-appointed all-time expert of branching out to different sites. He goes on and on about it, and if anyone questions it, they're labelled as "negative". 

I am not negative, I am realistic. I have sold maybe 10 things on Bonanza in the course of a year and a half. Etsy has been better, but it's not enough to support 4 people. Charley has an ecrater account for about 6 months and no sales, and he plugs his shit on social media constantly. He spends an hour or two a day pushing his Bonanza booth and his ecrater shop. It doesn't help. Hence my and his still selling on the evilbay, part-time jobs, and returning of cans, and therefore my questioning of the viability of other sales sites.

Group guy's all like "My sales will take off because I am not going to stay on ebay and hope it works out" etc. He then goes on about teaching yourself marketing and advertising. 

That's all well and good, but this is my problem with other sites. I should not have to do promotion and advertising, that's why I am paying them fuckin' fees! 

Charley does his own marketing and advertising and it does no good! He's no slouch either. He used to be webmaster of several "adult" sites. He knows how to drive traffic, believe me.

When I started Bonanza and Etsy, I did the self-promotion thing. I did it for months. If people want what you're selling, they'll find it and if the price is right, they'll buy. I should not have to annoy people with "Hey! You want a dolly like this one?" Nah. Didn't think so.

I got one $5 sale out of my "marketing and advertising". Most people were annoyed by the tweeting and re-tweeting of sales crap. Myself, when I was on Twitter, which was not often because I find it mind-numbing, I found myself getting annoyed by other people pushing their wares. It felt desperate to me.

Group guy then goes on and accuses others of watching too much TV instead of marketing their shit. 

Nope. I don't market my shit anymore. It did nothing but waste my time. I find shit that will sell in the first place. I watch maybe a half-hour of TV after I put my son to bed, around 11:30 at night. 

Today we got up, got dressed, drove to a place a half hour away to empty out some guys shed/garage and loaded a trailer headed for the auction house we work at. WE were there all day. I don't have time most days to fart around on Twitter or other social media sites plugging shit. When we went home, we checked our listings and did some research. I cooked supper, and did more research. 

Maybe he has all goddamned day to do the work that the sales sites should be doing for him, but a lot of us don't.

This guy posts repeatedly, almost annoyingly so. If anyone else has a diverging opinion, he runs them over like a California food truck headed for the beach. It's getting so that a lot of us don't bother posting anymore because we know he'll jump on and start spewing BS. 

Then there's the OLA cheerleader chick: "It's a great place to sell, but I don't know what sells there". If you're going to push a site, know something about what sells. These two have taken over almost every discussion on the board. I am all for being vocal, but live and let live. Other people have different circumstances than you do, their opinions, the merchandise they sell, and what they will try with sales will be different. Don't judge them for still selling on ebay.

I got in a pissing match with Group guy last week because I pointed out that the other selling sites don't have traffic. He immediately posts the the "Seller's Choice 2014" list with ratings of all the different sites and uses that as his argument that other sites have traffic. 

The list says Bonanza is the "best" one, but when you look closer there are 6 criteria that people are using to rate the sites. One was profitability. The ONLY one that matters. Ebay rated first. Bonanza's profitability was rated 6th behind Ebay, Etsy, Craigslist, Rubylane, and Amazon. Who gives a crap how easy a site is to use if it doesn't make you any money?