You Knew Etsy Would Ruin Reverb

MicroMort said:
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.
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Been ignoring parts of the screen since Prodigy on 1200 baud....

I honestly don't understand why people pay so much for advertising....
 
Reverb might have its flaws, but you bet your ass I’ll never sell gear on eBay again. When I ordered my first Matrix FR10, it got destroyed in shipping and Reverb refunded my money immediately and compensated the seller in less than a week. eBay is nothing more than a flea market anymore.
 
Anyone have an alternative? Reverb and eBay seem to be the only place you can regularly find a vast variety of used gear.
I’d be happy if either would just institute a “Hide” button that would let you choose not to see a specific item again at that price. It would make my searches so much more efficient.
 
jclemensfl said:
Anyone have an alternative? Reverb and eBay seem to be the only place you can regularly find a vast variety of used gear.
I’d be happy if either would just institute a “Hide” button that would let you choose not to see a specific item again at that price. It would make my searches so much more efficient.
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Most sales and advertisement platforms seem geared to repeat sales, which is fine for many purchase categories, but not a one-size-fits-all thing. With all the ads I get for large/durable/infrequent stuff, it seems clear that no thought has been given to this in the minds of advertisers....
 
jclemensfl said:
Anyone have an alternative? Reverb and eBay seem to be the only place you can regularly find a vast variety of used gear.
I’d be happy if either would just institute a “Hide” button that would let you choose not to see a specific item again at that price. It would make my searches so much more efficient.
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Reverb has a Hide button on each item so you can remove it from your Feed.
 
Joe Bfstplk said:
That is good for an individual item, but does it prevent them from showing you 57 other items just like it?
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Unfortunately, no. But at least they don't keep showing up. Also unfortunately this only works in the Feed.
jclemensfl said:
Jefferski, that is music to my ears.
Just went to the app, and I’m having a hard time finding the hide button. I feel dumb asking, but can you help a brother out?
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I don't think it works on the app. On the website, the Feed shows each item in a box... when you hover over it on the lower right (just under the "Mint" or "Very Good" etc) you'll see an X appear. Click it and bye-bye!!
 
in all fairness I have used reverb for several years buying and selling but mostly selling in the last year/months (saving money for my FM3 that I hope some day I'll get an invite) I've use the reverb bump gladly as it gets my listing sold and for more than a fair price with a very intuitive dashboard that is way better than ebay. new listings are easily filtered out with one click...
 
jefferski said:
Unfortunately, no. But at least they don't keep showing up. Also unfortunately this only works in the Feed.

I don't think it works on the app. On the website, the Feed shows each item in a box... when you hover over it on the lower right (just under the "Mint" or "Very Good" etc) you'll see an X appear. Click it and bye-bye!!
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Ok, I’ll try it there. Thanks! Although like someone mentioned earlier, I prefer Reverb’s app to their website.
It only works in the feed? That’s sucks. It makes a lot of sense in a search as well.
For example, I want to search for a pair of Yamaha HS8’s without the subs (HS8S) and the HS80s and the HS840 hi-hats stands all coming up. I understand I could be more specific with my search, but I’ve found that specificity often excludes things I want to see.
If Reverb can do it in your feed, they should do it on a normal search too. I’ve always felt it would helpful to be able to exclude things in searches.
Both would make Reverb and eBay more efficient.
 
jclemensfl said:
Ok, I’ll try it there. Thanks! Although like someone mentioned earlier, I prefer Reverb’s app to their website.
It only works in the feed? That’s sucks. It makes a lot of sense in a search as well.
For example, I want to search for a pair of Yamaha HS8’s without the subs (HS8S) and the HS80s and the HS840 hi-hats stands all coming up. I understand I could be more specific with my search, but I’ve found that specificity often excludes things I want to see.
If Reverb can do it in your feed, they should do it on a normal search too. I’ve always felt it would helpful to be able to exclude things in searches.
Both would make Reverb and eBay more efficient.
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Yea, I agree.
 
YetAnotherOne said:
rec.music.makers.marketplace FTW! Back in the good ol' days when you could just ship guitars & amps out and tell folks to either send payment or send it back and no deal ever went south (at least for me). Better days ....
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Yup. Ship guitar. Ship money order. Always worked out! Seems incredible now that’s how we did it.
 
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