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Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service

@eBay+++ who stated:

"...Iook for eBay to make a strong rebound in the 2nd half..."

That's pretty funny considering they've gone on record saying they are "recession proof"...LOL! Now this recession-proof company needs a rebound?

Good luck on your rebound, eBay ;)

Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service

@ eBay+++ who just couldn't resist re-posting a supposed positive for eBay:

"....and with more free shipping, it's only a matter of time before eBay takes market share form AMZN..."

This just goes to show you the mentality of the eBay trolls.

SHIPPING IS NOT FREE!!! Shipping is incorporated into the price of the item! There's no deal there! Knock knock - anybody home? eBay just takes more of the sellers hard earned profits (again) via FVF - double/triple dipping I believe would be the correct terminology.

Just read this post too - enjoy:

...By the time John Donahoe took the helm of eBay in Q1 2008, he opted to “aggressively change our product, our customer approach and our business model.” In a futile effort to compete with Amazon and Google, eBay leadership essentially stripped whatever remaining fun existed out of its marketplace....

Link: www.techcrunch.com/200.../

Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service

eBay/Paypal has always been a follower and a copy-cat of the real leaders of the pack. Who is eBay today? Amazon? Overstock? A liquidator? How 'bout an over-bloated pig?

With JD still at the helm, this tugboat is sinking more and more everyday. Between selling on Bonanzle.com and eCrater.com, I've made more and kept more money instead of stuffing it in eBay's bottomless pockets.

Fear not the gobbling dealings of Paypal, Facebook's "Pay With Facebook" is going to eat them alive!

Link: www.businessinsider.co...

Homepage Visitors at the Top Sites

Thanks for the info noirblood,

Using ysearch certainly does de-clutter the searches, but eventually you'll have to sign in to get your email and be bombarded. I chose to use (iGoogle) www.google.com/ig - no ads on the homepage or email page. Loads up way faster and it's completely customizable. Give it a try!

Good luck!

Homepage Visitors at the Top Sites

@ Cetin Hakimoglu who stated:

"People are sick of banner ads, but they love to click on text ads for some reason."

Perhaps clicking those text ads are accidental...

I know I've accidentally clicked on a few of those text ads as I tried desperately to get a bowl of salad fixin's to stop swirling around my Yahoo homepage. Finally, those irritating vegetables spun their way back to their ad box on their own.

Homepage Visitors at the Top Sites

I guess it just goes to show you that people are finally fed up with being bombarded by ads and commercials 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year!

I know I'm sick of being forced into watching advertisements/commerc... before I'm connected to what it was I clicked in the first place!

In my experience with Yahoo, I've found that if their ads don't load first - neither will your email or your homepage (AdBlock Plus for Firefox works great to eliminate these bothersome ads).

And yes, I'm one that dropped Yahoo like a hot potato in favor of a quieter, less cluttered home page.

Strength in Amazon Cannot Be Ignored

Do yourself a favor... drop eBay and invest in Amazon!

Sales Tax for E-tailers?

Agreed Jay Dee!

-and to think "research" is their title...

Sales Tax for E-tailers?

Funny....

eBay is killing the seller with it's outrageous fees and now the government is going to kill eBay (along with other marketplaces) with it's outrageous fees. These two monstrosities don't get the big picture - not at all.

eBay believes raising fees beyond reason, is going to make them richer, quicker. Turn the seller into third world slaves - sell quantity at low prices, give eBay the majority of your profits and you'll do fine, right? *puke*

Enter Uncle Sam...The government believes taxing sellers (big and small) will make all the states rich, too. The end result (of course) is the consumer will incur these additional fees.

Many people shop online simply because of this tax-free incentive (especially on bigger ticket items). Unfortunately their greedy plans will back-fire. Countless numbers of potential online shoppers will simply stop buying (at least online).

Why would anyone shop online and pay the taxes too when they can easily buy their goods cheaper at their local Walmart - and we all know eBay has burdened sellers with sky-rocketing Final Value Fees and totalitarianism policies and put countless people out of business by stacking the cards against them.

The cost of shopping eBay already exceeds the cost of shopping at WalMart - now add tax to the equation! eBay will die quicker than it already is.

Look at the huge loss the US Post Office is taking - 2.3 billion dollars last year and they are still crashing. Their answer is to continually raise rates - again and again and again, yet the their bottom line is still suffering (they'll be raising rates again this May by the way).

Sometimes raising fees may not be the way to go. UPS is usually cheaper than using USPS and they include insurance! Who do you think is picking up the Post Office's business? *Hint... The one who offers more and costs less, of course!

They just don't get it, do they? These gluttonous hogs are going to put themselves right out of business along with millions of Americans. eBay can TARP, and us common folk...well.... we'll get another get a stimulus package for $12 dollars more a month.

jmo

What Can eBay Do to Close Its Amazon Gap?

It's not the recession that's dramatically slowing sales on eBay. It's the way they've stacked the cards against their customers (sellers) with an un-level playing field, outrageously high commission fees and now you have the option to un-bury your already paid listings by purchasing PPC so that maybe your items will show up in a BM search - to which they will gladly take another helping of your minuscule profits.

eBay will continue it's spiral so long as WalMart is cheaper.To succeed online you have to offer something better than your competition. In this case they once again fail miserably.

U.K. E-Commerce Report: Thoughts from Catalyst U.K.

I'm really glad to hear that Amazon still hasn't turned up the heat on eBay yet. According to your consumer panel, everyone still thinks of Amazon as books, music and videos. With so much dissatisfaction from both buyers and sellers alike concerning eBay these days, once Amazon finally turns on the burners, eBay may be looking more and more like a crispy burned out cinder.

We all know who the champ is and we all know who it was that tried to take them on and failed miserably. It's nice to hear that Amazon hasn't even begun to eat their competition's lunch yet!

Suggestions for eBay 2.0

Hey Scot,

I just wanted to say thank you for this series of articles. You obviously have spent a great deal of time on this. Although I am anti-eBay because of their draconian policies, I appreciate that you have explained your position and where you stand.

Great reading episodes I-IV and kudos to you for your time researching and writing them.

Suggestions for eBay 2.0

Sorry about your luck DaveD, but that's what eBay is these days. They've booted and ran off the honest PowerSellers in favor of Diamond over-seas garbage sellers and now, all that is left is what you have experienced.

Let me guess what they said:

"I understand your frustration, but you can always leave negative feedback and file a dispute with our Trust and Safety department."

And then you'll wait one-three days before you get a random generated canned response from one of their automated emails, that basically says "DENIED!"

That's what eBay is. Welcome to the new buyer experience. Where customer service along with quality goes on the back burner and Diamond PowerSellers can give you garbage and get away with it.

JMO

Suggestions for eBay 2.0

I don't think very many people want eBay to survive at all anymore.
Love has turned to hate. There's one thing they can never repair and that's the trust they've destroyed in the name of the all mighty dollar.

Bumping off long time veteran sellers and replacing them with over-seas garbage sellers who offer nothing but the same old crap, nothing unique - as we paid full price listing fees just to be buried somewhere on page 72.

And the lies! The constant spinning lies! And censorship on the forums and discussion boards. Totalitarianism! Who can trust them at all anymore?

I for one do not trust these greedy pigs as far as I can throw them. They're back-stabbers and I wait for the day they crash and burn.

Why would I want to give them suggestions after all this? I'd rather give my advice and suggestions to Mark and Bill over at www.Bonanzle.com, at least I'd know they would be considered and not just deleted.

And WE will NEVER FORGET that we are just "noise" right Johnny Donahoe?

JMO

Drop in E-Commerce Customer Satisfaction Ends Three-Year Climb

As long as greedy eBay charges the most outrageous fees on the planet (even WalMart can beat them), ecommerce will continue to fail.

Sellers cannot compete when they have to elevate prices so high, buyers simply walk away. People have become wiser. They let their fingers and keyboards do the shopping and find the best prices possible.

Only a fool would waste money at eBay when WalMart and other outside sites are cheaper. And since they appear to phasing out the auction format in favor of the "Buy it Now" and diamond powersellers (a.k.a over-seas garbage), there's really no reason to step foot into the crumbling eBay palace.

eBay is a has-been. Amazon kicked the sand in their face again this holiday season and yet the current management continues on this destructive path. They have alientated long time veteran sellers, cheated and BS'ed their way into forcing a PayPal payment only scheme and a failed search engine, ironically named "Best Match" which when used, allows potential buyers to see only what eBay wants them to see.

Not to mention advertisements as far as the eye can see, that does absolutely nothing but bog computers down and diverts potential shoppers to "click here" and leave the eBay site to make their purchases elsewhere - and they wonder where the traffic is going? Is the Pay Per Click worth it?

Even over-bloated pigs have to stop gobbling some time, don't they? I wonder if eBay is the exception? Open your eyes and close your greedy mouth!

Free yourself! www.Bonanzle.com

JMO