[sdiy] ebay internal shill bidding?

[Bob Weigel]

On 1/6/2011 1:47 PM, David Anderson wrote:
> On 1/6/2011 3:30 PM, Bob Weigel wrote:
>> Because they are the only place on the planet with a synth market 
>> where you can buy/sell to any advantage.
>
> Not true. You could set up a shop on your site. For someone with the 
> right skills, it is very easy to get your shop products in google's 
> search engine results, under the Shopping tab. It's hard to get better 
> exposure than that. 

This planet is FULL of ebay addicts.  While you can find things for sale 
on my site by googling, you ....OHHHHH let's give it a whirl.  Off the 
TOP I go "Korg Delta for sale"

Guess who gets first honors on google?

Yup.  Yours truly.

I'm not familiar with the shopping tab and MOST OTHERS probably aren't 
EITHER.  That's the point.  I've never looked on it.  Why?  Because 
these sites are *known* historically for filling such links with 
irrelevant overpriced garbage to most of us.  So we've kinda turned 
those links off.

Maybe others are less jaded than me.  Has anyone besides David used 
google shopping tab?  I'm totally unfamiliar with it and if you have 
information on how to get my links to show up there that's great.  I'd 
appreciate it.  But I'm very VERY skeptical that very many people 
(compared to ebay) actually use those links.

I think virtually nobody  LOOKS on google (proportionally) for this type 
of thing when they want to buy it. They'd rather go to ebay because it's 
the trill of the hunt with most of them I think.

.  Know how many hits I've gotten from just google search exposure over 
the years ?  A handful and none of them bought.  Put it on ebay it SELLS 
for MORE than I'm asking on the site.