You Knew Etsy Would Ruin Reverb

Looking on my laptop, one page shows 7 rows of 4 items.

The top row of 4 are all Reverb Bumps. The rest are not.

I have to say, I vastly prefer the app over the web page :)
 
I find it's largely drop-ship listings now. Utter crap. Where it lists new items, but priced on par with the public price on Sweetwater, etc. They just swamp out all the used listings with stock photo, equally priced, crap.

Example: https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=presonus temblor t10 -- shows 41 listings but...

https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=presonus temblor t10&condition=used -- exactly one used (and kind of priced like shit as a result)

How is that useful to me? It's not.

I've just stopped using it altogether.
 
I find it's largely drop-ship listings now. Utter crap. Where it lists new items, but priced on par with the public price on Sweetwater, etc. They just swamp out all the used listings with stock photo, equally priced, crap.

Example: https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=presonus temblor t10 -- shows 41 listings but...

https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=presonus temblor t10&condition=used -- exactly one used (and kind of priced like shit as a result)

How is that useful to me? It's not.

I've just stopped using it altogether.
I guess it depends on what you search for. Maybe nobody sells the temblor because they are so good. Maybe nobody bought them in the first place. I just searched for Anderson guitars & there are 94 new listings, 95 used.
 
I guess it depends on what you search for. Maybe nobody sells the temblor because they are so good. Maybe nobody bought them in the first place. I just searched for Anderson guitars & there are 94 new listings, 95 used.

That's right. I have a Temblor 8 and I would never sell it, unless I could move from the condo to a house without neighbors. Then I would consider buying the Temblor 10.
 
And they did. A full 2/3 of the listings are now "Reverb Bumps".

The real issue I think that is here, isn't that Reverb/Etsy are greedy- it's just the Reverb has an extremely poor search on their website.

Ebay's search is lightyears ahead of Reverbs and is very powerful. Reverb's is just antiquated and limited.

So, when it comes to bumps they get priority - mixed in with bad search results- you get the poor results of reverb search.

Reverb pricing low to high doesn't account for shipping

So a $25 + $25 shipping metal zone is cheaper than the $45 free shipping metal zone- then throw some bumps in between- also with questionable and unaccounted for shipping costs it's just bad by todays standards.

I've also come to the conclusion 50% of reverb is people who don't want to sell on reverb. It's mom and pop shops with uncompetative pricing and exorbitant shipping prices that just hope it brings calls/traffic/private messages instead of trying to complete on the channel.
 
Reverb is fine with me.. I put in fair "make an offer" and it's usually accepted. I can almost always find what I'm looking for on Reverb but not so much ebay. When I sell, I almost always list at the lowest price and I don't accept offers.... my stuff gets cleared out pretty quickly.

I ignore those bumps just like I ignore google's first 5 search result ads... just trained to skim over them I guess.
 
Only thing I've really noticed is the sorting is weird. I have my browser toolbar set to bring up my feed. I'll see certain things, some new. If I actually search for an item I know should be in my feed, then they show up, even if a new listing. This isn't how it used to work. I'd get all items from the feed in order of them being listed. I can't tell if it's intentional or just shitty code.
 
When I search, after the first set of results I just hit the Used field on the left and it clears out all the new items. There might be one row of 4 Bumps at the top but that's it.
 
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