I started selling on ebid last week, and personally I feel that the place has so little traffic it makes it unviable. Unless as you suggest, you are actually directing traffic to you items on ebid I highly doubt you'll sell anything.
My items have been up for 1 week, and the most popular has 3 views!! (2 of which I think were me). Same item on eBay had 38 views within the hour.
Whilst I've had problems with eBay in the past the exposer you get is unmatched, and they know that. I have a feeling that those of you moving to ebid will be moving back soon.