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Using Ebay as a Dealextreme replacement
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06-02-2013 1:18am#1
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I buy a huge amount of stuff off eBay (read 10 - 15 items per month), and Ive found that 99% of the time it is cheaper. Interestingly though, any slightly larger items, its better off checking elsewhere. P&P on eBay for larger items (size of a book for example) can nearly double the price of the item. An example I can give is that yesterday I needed to buy a new pollen filter for the car. €7 on ebay, plus another €8 delivery. Off micksgarage.ie its €9 plus free P&P. So, its important to check the P&P on eBay, especially from UK sellers, sending to Ireland.
In relation to the name, why not call it eBuy?
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You're better off leaving out the free option and searching on ebay.co.uk, and sorting by price including postage to ireland. A lot of people will have the item for 1c and postage .55c or whatever the total price will often be less than the lowest with free postage.
You really need to look at searches from several ebay sites these days. I'm using ebay for 12 years its gone to pot, no more wild card searches, no 'located in any country/region' option, no sort by price including postage on some sites such as ebay.ie, ebay.com.sg etc.
Even the widest scope advanced search for items 'available to ireland' will only deliver a fraction of the items actually available to you in ireland if you perform the same search on ebay.com, ebay.co.uk, ebay.de, ebay.fr, ebay.it the mind boggles.
Wasn't aware of this, so thanks! I will have a look at seeing what I can do with including more than just results from ebay.ie
At the moment I am only using free postage as I want to be able to sort by price you pay. If I can get accurate postage costs back I could possibly total it up.I buy a huge amount of stuff off eBay (read 10 - 15 items per month), and Ive found that 99% of the time it is cheaper. Interestingly though, any slightly larger items, its better off checking elsewhere. P&P on eBay for larger items (size of a book for example) can nearly double the price of the item. An example I can give is that yesterday I needed to buy a new pollen filter for the car. €7 on ebay, plus another €8 delivery. Off micksgarage.ie its €9 plus free P&P. So, its important to check the P&P on eBay, especially from UK sellers, sending to Ireland.
In relation to the name, why not call it eBuy?
Oh definitely, I find Amazon is a cheap as anywhere for some items.
This is mainly useful for cheap electronics (chargers, cables etc), phone covers and other things like that.
I'm not claiming that it will always be the cheapest, but it will hopefully be a handy resource.Free shipping isn't always the best option to choose. The same seller here has the same product but slightly cheaper when you choose to pay for postage.
Free Postage
Pay for Postage
Its not an exact science, I've just found the majority of times that this is a quick way of getting the cheapest item (if price is your main driving factor). Like there is no point saving 5c if it took you an extra 5 mins to do the search (by clicking into the items to find out their postage etc)
For your example, if price is your main driving factor, my custom search returns a cheaper product than that (1m HDMI for €1.37) but you wont have it for 2-3 weeks as opposed to a couple of days from your links. (As an aside, if i was buying a hdmi cable: euro 2 sell 1m Hdmi for €2, Dealz sell them for €1.59)0 -
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snubbleste wrote: »There are other websites which are more competitive than dealextreme.
Why are you restricting your comparison to just one website
Cause dealextreme are the most popular?
The website im working on does not interact with dealextreme in any shape or form, it just returns a custom search of ebay items (based on criteria in the first post).
Im basically trying to turn ebay into another one of these sites. Is it always going to be the cheapest? Maybe not but, its always good to have more competition. People also trust ebay, rightly or wrongly, people would buy off ebay much quicker than buyincoins or focalprice because ebay are a known brand.
Out of curiosity, do any sites your talking about beat ebay on any of the above products?0 -
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I buy a huge amount of stuff off eBay (read 10 - 15 items per month), and Ive found that 99% of the time it is cheaper. Interestingly though, any slightly larger items, its better off checking elsewhere. P&P on eBay for larger items (size of a book for example) can nearly double the price of the item. An example I can give is that yesterday I needed to buy a new pollen filter for the car. €7 on ebay, plus another €8 delivery. Off micksgarage.ie its €9 plus free P&P. So, its important to check the P&P on eBay, especially from UK sellers, sending to Ireland.
In relation to the name, why not call it eBuy?
Couldn't agree more with this. There are some UK sellers who just make up postage rates to ireland off the top of their heads. Just before Xmas I bought an car seat cover but had forgot request postage costs first as it wasn't listed. He sent me an invoice for £15 for the cover and another £14 (about €18) for postage and packing. The thing weighed almost nothing so I said I'd pay £8 and no more, at which point he cancelled the transaction (which is what I really wanted by that stage anyway as I'd found the same product elsewhere with shipping for £7)
OP I'd say all the good names related to Deals and Ebay are long taken. Even ebooboos.com (specialises in spelling mistakes on auctions -i.e no one can see them due to spelling mistake therefore low prices at auction) has been around at least 5/6 years and they couldn't get a better name than that.
Why not instead go for a name that is completely out of leftfiield but also memorable. That's what sites like Moonpig and FunkyPigeon are trying to achieve- like who the hell would forget the name Moonpig.com ?!0 -
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