I’m out! no more stupid membership fees, here!

Hey guys, I brought around 3500 items over from eBay trying to actually merge over to this platform and quit doing eBay. I had high hopes for this platform, but even with a current shadow ban on eBay I’ve still done a few thousand dollars in sales over the past couple weeks yet all of the same items were over here and I did not even make a single sale. I’m done guys. I’m not going to pay these people a membership fee for this nonsense. They don’t even have an app on the App Store. I’m sorry, but this was the biggest waste of time. I think I’ve ever made.

asked about 16 hours ago

2 Answers

I would recommend using marketplaces for customer acquisition and have a website platform that will sync with eBay to build your own customer base. I call it investing in yourself. Every single order shipped out should have a your website address on it and inside there should be a packing slip with an advertisement for XX % off on your site.
Use the marketplaces to advertise and grow your website’s business. Reality is, selling exclusively on a marketplace puts you at risk of losing all your business in an instant. I say that as someone who was on multiple marketplaces before Bonanza that went “poof” overnight.
Always invest in yourself. Good luck!

answered about 15 hours ago

For some reason sales have totally died in the past few weeks. Never seen it this slow. I did start selling on E. and am doing pretty good with half a dozen sales a day. Thinking about cancelling. Paying 65.00 a month @ 40 membership and 25 webstore. Then another 1000 to 1200 in fees each month until now. Will give it a few more weeks here to see if it picks up again. I don’t know but it seems like something is going on with Bonanza. Always had good sales then totally nothing. Almost like the site went on hold or something. Will probably keep my account and just go with the free account (if there is one now lol) and close the webstore. Just thoughts, haven’t decided yet.

answered about 14 hours ago

2 Comments

GravityVideo says: September 13, 2025

At the bottom of the selling dashboard there is a “Trending on Bonanza” section that show categories with the most sales. The highest is 511 tonight. I remember a few years ago the highest was about 10000 and none of the highest were under 5000.

GravityVideo says: September 14, 2025

IMO the owner is out of money. A couple years ago he was sued by Bill to force him to pay the remainder that was owed on the site. Now he is being sued for privacy violations. This is what happens when a venture capitalist takes over a strong business. It always runs out of money.

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