Ebay Blues

[endofdawn.livejournal.com]

Hey everyone
Everytime i do a search on ebay for EGL clothes i get over 200 things and only about 20 to 50 are actually egl everything else has egl in the title to just get more people to see there clothes . its nice to see other clothes but i thought it would be a great if we had like a certain phrase to put in the aution title it would make it easier to for us to find clothes. i was thinking put Mana in every egl auction title and it would be easier to seperate goth from gothic lolita.

With Only Hope
Lisa

Comments

[miyu-sakura.livejournal.com]

The problem is that the eBay sellers are pretty quick to catch onto trends, especially concerning keywords. I was thinking that it would be possible for us to start an gothic lolita sellers group, similar to the Little Big Girls Group on eBay.

*trots off to investigate*

definetly a good idea

[endofdawn.livejournal.com]

Im going to look that up myself. That would work

[zebraphenia.livejournal.com]

mmm i found that.

[vampy.livejournal.com]

I don't think all of the people that put EGL in their listings are guilty of putting it purely for the reason that they know EGL is popular and will get hits on the listing. I know a tshirt I'm selling I put EGL purely because I figured people that like EGL and Lolita would be interested since it has that sorta feel :/

Or maybe Ebayers are just into that kinda trickery.

[sorrowsdemise.livejournal.com]

I put EGA, EGL on mine because that's the group that I am trying to attract. I do feel my stuff falls under that category though, they are dresses, capes, skirts, that sort of thing, blouses. Will you look at mine and tell me that it doesn't fall under that category, so I can change it. I have used mana in the past, but I don't feel all my dresses fall under the mana style. The ones that do, I state that.

[ex-pantheria458.livejournal.com]

I think a group would be a fun idea or Word like the "AGF" use...

[missmeganmaude.livejournal.com]

Problematically, you can't use Mana as a keyword because if you're item doesn't come from Mana or have Mana on it or whatever, ebay can delete your listing. The Little Big Girls had this problem with using "Courtney Love" when trying to sell kinderwhore style clothes. Ebay won't let you use the term kinderwhore, so we started using the term "kinder" and "kinderdoll"... and it's funny because everyone else does it now too.

I for one, don't put "gothic lolita" or "egl" in my auctions unless I really honestly think it applies.

I really don't think there are enough consistant EGL sellers on ebay to have a seller's group.... or maybe that's just me.
You can always check out the ebay seller's links on AvanteGauche as well.

[hazelasher.livejournal.com]