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    • How Does the Boycott Impact eBay? [view article]
      It is worse than I thought, there is another eBay ebayer with a total of 73 Test Auctions priced up to $1770, and they have all been BID on, and all by someone@ebay.com. Maybe $50,000 or more of 'completed' business, that is not real.

      I asked eBay recently why they did not allow Google Checkout. They told me that they had deemed it not safe. Who would you trust more - eBay/Paypal or Google?

      Dirty, dirty little Suits.       Feb 25 03:14 AM
    • How Does the Boycott Impact eBay? [view article]
      Test Auctions, my my. I had a quick look and immediately found an 'eBayer' with 45 'Test Listings' in completed items, all between 20-23 February. All the listings are the same, and they all start at a staggering $3000. That is $135,000 of 'non business'.

      eBay must be really desperate.       Feb 25 02:47 AM
    • How Does the Boycott Impact eBay? [view article]
      eBay will lose because they have something to lose...sellers. The age old idea of proximity to market is no longer an issue.

      The sellers have nothing to lose....wherever the sellers go, the buyers will follow....because they have to if they want the item.

      Since the opposition is actually cheaper, easier to deal with, and by comparison is actively making sellers welcome as opposed to reviled and discriminated against, sellers actually have something to gain.

      The current growth spurt in the oppositions listings is of far more interest than eBay's 'special offer' manipulated defence against falling listings. It represents the beginning of a diaspora of migrating sellers that is unlikely to reverse.

      As my name says......gottago........ is my 'fiduciary duty' to my children to escape repression....and it is turning out to be almost as much FUN as eBay used to be 10 years ago.

      Remember fun?
       Feb 24 02:59 PM
    • How Does the Boycott Impact eBay? [view article]
      User 155167 says "...and that's why they decided to abandon the "plain field" notion for selling on the platform; not all sellers are equal, why treat them like ones?"

      re concentration camps in my previous post, I rest my case.

      Feb 24 08:31 AM
    • How Does the Boycott Impact eBay? [view article]
      "Now, we have an open forum. Use it. Make your complaints in the open. Better yet, give your praise in the open"


      This message from Pierre Omidyar in 1996 is still on the eBay Feedback Forum page.

      Not for long presumably.

      People who refer to whiny sellers who have had their freedom of speech removed are the same sort of ordinary thoughtless people who allow concentration camps to spring into existence without a murmur.
      "eBay has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to squeeze you" is just plain wrong and very silly. The only fiduciary duty which applies to a director of a company is to suppress his own interests and serve only the beneficiary, in this case the company as a whole.
      Now that it has been brought up, you have to wonder whether the deliberate action which may result in the partial destruction of the company's true customer base of sellers - the people who actually bring the money to the table in the form of objects - is in fact a breach of fiduciary duty in itself. If his bonus scheme is tied to a formula that will actually benefit from the damage he is doing, then he might end up facing a claim for compensatory damages from aggrieved shareholders, sellers, company employees laid off as part of the cost cutting, and maybe even from buyers.
      There are plenty more fish in the sea used to be true until they were overexploited....then that industry imploded spectacularly.
      Feb 23 06:22 PM
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