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No Christmas for eBay Sellers

mel-ster,

I highly suggest you dont pay for a lifetime memebrship at OLA until you've sold there for awhile. OLA has experience alot of seller growth this year, but Fain after nearly 11 years as site own has ever gotten the site and the sellers listings RSS google feed and exposure in search engines.

Total site traffic for OLA is only about 34K and aside from seller growth, there has not been any real traffic growth at OLA for 10 years now. Ecrater on the otherhand os a different store. Although ecrater is a new site, ecrater already gets nearly 800k unique visiters monthly which is almost as much site traffic as Ioffer gets in U.S. user traffic.

I'm impressed with ecrater's development team. Sellers listings are beginning to show up high in google searches and traffic is growing quickly.

I'd also like to mention a few other sites you might want to check out.....Rubylane and goantiques which cater to buyers and sellers of vintage things and antiques. Both sites get nearly 30 times more monthly traffic than OLA, and they are niche sites catering to buyers interested in vintage products.

I'd also suggest checking out bonanzle. It a very new site, but has already registered 5000 new sellers in just the past few months, and is a really cool site with enormous potential. Atomicmall is another site you may want to check out.

I'm not trying to discourage you from selling at OLA, but based on my own experience and the experience of alot of sellers I know that sell there....there are actually more sellers on OLA than there are buyers which doesnt work....and Fain just doesnt seem to be motivated to make the site search engine friendly.