Ebay advertising frowned upon?

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eliandal

07-11-2004 18:48:45

I got the impression that ebay advertising is frowned upon. Has any one tried it and had success? I tried it and got about 48 yellows with no greens at all. Did anyone wait the 15 days and end up with greens? Thanks for the time.

LPmeteora99

07-11-2004 19:10:17

How did you go about doing this?? What item did you list? Where did you put the link? I want to try it but do not know how. Thank you.

spiff999

07-11-2004 19:12:06

I got 4 out of 5 referrals using ebay and they ended up all being unique. My first auctions were cancelled by ebay. I found that if you left your auctions any longer than having ~2 days left they were more likely to be cancelled and then you get in shit. Twice this happened, but they didn't suspend my account or anything. So, I would open an auction then close it with 2 days left. Maybe it was just how it worked out having my auctions closed by them at this time, but I didnt' have any cancelled if I let it run from 7 days left until about 2 days left.
I got about 90 yellows from this, doing it for about 2-3 weeks. If you put more money into your auctions, like having them featured, then you'll get way more traffic, but that costs $20, I think, and you're only looking for 5 referrals total. There are so many auctions like that on ebay, too, you would think you have no chance of getting people to sign up under you. But, eventually you'll get them all.

Jin_Roh_Ghost

11-11-2004 17:06:23

I used BB's and threw my link on chat rooms and stuff... i guess i got lucky sicne it only took me like a week. I'm getting verified right now.

urelocalwhiteguy

11-11-2004 17:44:50

In a period of about two weeks I got 130 yellows, and 8 out of 5 referrals green.

Randyspawn

11-11-2004 18:04:10

What bulletin boards do you guys use? I could only find one that would deal with it because I was already a regular there.

cheba63

11-11-2004 18:07:01

I tried it but not only did I not get any greens, I didn't get any yellows. How did you set up the auction to make it work?