Watching the Wheels

Is eBay's Strategy Working?

Overall, it does seem to me that the Stock Market and continued bail outs are a unavoidable proof that the modern way of doing business HAS NOT WORKED WELL.

Everyone keeps talking sh*t and throwing around business jargon that the average person has little understanding of. They do though understand that the supposed retirement investments that "The Big Boys" sold, in a manner that was once reserved for snake oil have lost approximately a third of the value that they showed last year.

We as a society deparately need to return to simpler people oriented values. We need to relearn the value of hard work and to approach work matters in a less greed driven manner.

America has very little real industry left. Our Automakers are poised to go belly up. These supposed leaders of business have acted out in the realm of fantasy believing that this is the same America as it was at the end of WW2. They have operated in a very short sighted manner, by outsourcing the very jobs that would have paid for the American cars and mortgages. I fail to see any real moralistic differences in how John Donahoe approached his stewardship of Ebay. Meg Whitman and the supposed beloved Pierre were on board with the changes. They rolled out BEORE Meg retired.

I had considered selling on Ebay. I chose not to, because their were far too many risks involved and no recourses open to me if a problem occured.I have a degree in business. I was able to access things properly. I am by and large against the use of jargon. I believe that ti is very important to be understood by as large a range of people as possible. It is far too easy to disguise reality and far too easy to give numbers any sort of appearance that you would like the public to believe.

Walmart is doing exceptionally well, all things considered. Ebay should, by any stretch of the imagination, growing by leaps and bounds within our depressed economy.

I still buy an occasional item on Ebay, but have noticed that the "opening bids" continue to spiral upwards. I find it to be aggravating to have to click out of Best Match ALL THE TIME.

I don't need to have a reminder about leaving honest feedback. Had Ebay been so concerned about my "buyer experiance" as they profess to be, the rude pigs that I fought with last year would no longer be on the site. They would have also offered some non automated responses to my concerns. If they were so concerned about proper customer care the 1-888 Paypal call in center would have customer service reps who were fully capable of understanding the language that I speak. I would be given real answers and not be forced to incur the costs of making toll calls in order to speak to someone who fully understands my language and to also aid me in proper documentation of said conversations.

I also don't really need the continual expert commentary, again couched in jargon terminology. Regardless of however the "experts" choose to spin a story the proof will be, as it always has, in the pudding.

Again, check out the stock market, the chickens are coming home to roost. If it gets REALLY, REALLY bad has anyone read census reports about respective populations of America compared to China? HUGE mistakes have been made.