I do quite well on oztion. As do many others.
Well that means nothing to anyone, What you say does well fo you, may not be a decent meal for someone else, everything is relative.
I have studied the goings on at OZtion, along with quite a few others, and if the owners couldn't make enough to survive, and sold out because they couldn't afford to advertise, then I doubt anyone is doing well on the scale of having a " Genuine Business " that pays a wage.
There are several fools over there who jump on the forums every day telling all and sundry how great they are doing, but a quick check of the sales may see 4 in the last month. at $5 each......?
The person who made the comment about the forums is no newbie and has been there for years.
The comment itself is ridiculous, " Are you saying "....? The OP stated quite clearly what they were saying.
Exactly what does it take to make people stop, read, then comment, because quite simply, if you take out the cliques, the manipulators, and the trolls, and those who start flamers because they fail to read and comprehend what is written,forums would do what they were designed to do.
As for OZtion, the most popular threads are those whinging about no sales, no clicks, and multiple ID's. The most watched threads are those full of abuse and rudeness. That's why the site has never reached it's potential, the site's membership only grew through the forums of ebay and the continual raiding parties from OZtion, so most of the people that went there, were forum users, and most who hate trolls and idiots backed out the door as quickly as they came in and read the forums.
Before I ever wen't there in the beginning of 2006, word on RT was that their forums were a battle ground, and the same members are still there, waiting for the chance to unload on people, and their Admin does nothing, have no interest in the place, and word is, can't wait until their management contract with new owners Jumbuck, ends early next year. Ebay and OZtion are suffering from the backlash of negative publicity of on line trading, and the recession we nearly didn't have. Nothing more and nothing less. Australia has 21 million people, but only about 6.5 to 7 million work, where does the money come from to support on line auction sites as well as B & M shops, small pie with too many wanting a larger slice, the sums don't work.
No longer can anyone start on ebay and sell, these days you need to be smarter than others, and put some effort into selling, and I have seen so many whine they can't sell, but when you look at their auctions, they basically tell people not to buy off them, rude TOS, poor photo's, no description.
What ebay did was to open up a whole new market to those who would never succeed in a real business, but gave them an ego, and many use it to profess their expertise in business, but the reality is, ebay is just a venue, which can be taken away in an instant.
Mum & Dad sellers should all move to OZtion because ebay won't be entertaining them much longer, the fee's just about wipe them out now, so their next logical move will be an Amazon style shopping mall, Paypal only, and the other members will be shunted off to Gumtree, or OZtion, who knows, ebay may buy Jumbuck, they are publicly listed.
Everything is relative, if your selling garage sale stock, go to OZtion, if your more upmarket, go to ebay and pay high fee's but have a chance of having traffic view your items.
Simple.
