Lyn

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    • ON: Sun Mar 9th 23:52 PM
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      eBay Management and Sellers Need Relationship Advice
      Excellent analogy. I'll add this: Ebay is like an abusive husband. Can't live with him, but you're trapped in the relationship, so you take the abuse until you can't take it any more.

      I'll add this divorce analogy, relative to sellers who are either willingly or unwillingly getting a divorce from eBay:

      For a typical post-divorce American middle class woman with several children, it is a hard statistical fact that the financial and social scene is usually very grim for a real long time for them. On the other hand, Dad goes out right away and gets an apartment, a new girlfriend, and is able to pay his bills on time and even take in dinner and movie now and then instead of a bucket of chicken (not possible without a coupon) and what's on the Disney Channel (cable, what's cable??).

      So there's Mom now, carrying two jobs, unable to pay the bills, kids threatening to go live with Dad...he lets them text their friends all they want and doesn't care how many tattoos and piercings their friends have.

      Meanwhile, Dad is saying nasty things about how horrible his former sweetheart was to him (you know, the one who gave up her career to work two jobs and put him through college). Let's just call that the unilaterally negative feedback that the kids are lapping up and using against Mom at every opportunity in order to get their way at home against their siblings and to squeeze more loot out of her at WalMart.

      Dad doesn't want to pay child support, either, lest Mom is able to afford a new $2 tube of lipstick now and then as a result of getting a big 10% of his salary every month to help feed and clothe and pay for shelter and health and dental care and transportation and phones and computers for the kids. So Mom will have to take him to court a couple of times a year. He'll lie about his income and expenses, but we all know whom the judge will believe, so Mom will end up paying the legal fees again to get bupkiss.

      Ebay has lied and cheated and stolen from Mom's pocketbook one too many times, so now Mom is leaving, taking the kids with her. But that's OK, Dad is in better shape than he was before and he the judge granted him joint custody of the kids. So what's all the shouting about, anyway? That's the way it goes in America.
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    • ON: Thu Mar 6th 13:58 PM
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      A Solution for eBay and Its Frustrated Seller Community
      What a complete idiot. It's not all about the money, it's about LOTS of issues, the foremost being that all these sugarcoat changes are being crammed down our throats as though they are great for sellers and great for buyers. They aren't great for anyone except buyers who are scammers, extortionists, and nonpayers. It is no longer safe to sell anything on ebay, or even for an honest and conscientious person to think about buying from the new crop of scum sucking sellers who will step in to take our place when the remaining dregs of sellers do as you suggest and sign your pledge. That's the bottom line, so most of us already signed our own pledge quite some time ago and are already gone. Old news, Mr. Rapa--move on to what's new and vibrant in the world of e-commerce, not what is scrambling to survive.
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