Rafael Grillo

EBay: The Doldrum Years

Desperation, greed, pure incompetence. Ebay is doomed. Management simply forgot what Ebay was all about: regular people coming together to do some business. With all sorts of very high fees for sellers, Ebay is discouraging the big public to participate. There is nothing left in that company.

eBay Is a Losing Bid - Barron's

eBay is doomed. And that is simply because they lost sight of their true essence. eBay was built as an open market, on the premise than one man's trash is another man's tearsure. That is what made eBay so intriguing and fascinating at the beginning. There is where its magic lied. eBay then got greedy, and its organic nature got regimented and taxed beyond any common sense. Not happy with just a reasonable commission on sales, they started charging for listings, for adding words to your listing, exhorbitant commissions on sales, etc. eBay forgot that they were just a mean for the business, not the business itself. They became arrogant. As a result, eBay is now dominated for a few merchants of low-quality, expensive goods and the magic is gone. I don't check eBay anymore: I am afraid a fee will be levied just for seeing.