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    • eBay: A glimmer of Hope for Feedback [view article]
      Footnote:

      I now make a solid living wage by working other sites.

      There are several regular posters "not posting" as much as previous. I suspect they are busy, busy, busy selling on their new sites. Working. Hard.

      The shopping season is rapidly approaching. Do NOT delay, the time is NOW to start if you have not already begun to diversify. Do not miss the opportunity.

      Do you want to survive, or thrive?

      Otherwise, it might very well be a case of you reap what you sow. Or don't.       Oct 08 01:28 PM
    • eBay: A glimmer of Hope for Feedback [view article]
      I hope all these (justifiably) outraged and enraged sellers are helping to build up other sites in the meantime! I realize it is a tremendous amount of work... but necessary!

      Paypal will keep ebay afloat for many a year unless other venues are promoted and worked. Go to other sites that are fast growing; they offer Googlecheckout etc. Promote alternate pay venues actively and help to solidly establish and make their revenue healthy.

      It will be a lot of work, I know. Often I put in 12 to 14 hours a day. But without a doubt current ebay sellers now put in this kind of time, and are now not rewarded with suitable monetary value.

      In these uncertain financial times it is best to diversify. Life is now much more stabilized for myself and I'm sure others, too, that have gone elsewhere.

      ebay is freely spending your hard earned money acquiring other venues while dumping employees just at the start of holiday time. They have a healthy balance sheet now but if there is a world wide financial crash...?

      I hope to be ready. By the way, all this turmoil ebay has created has opened a Pandora's box that ebay can no longer close. Smug enough not to realize how fully it has taught MANY to conduct searches and shop elsewhere. The quality of buyer seems to have VASTLY deteriorated since Donahoe took over.

      But that's another post.       Oct 08 12:12 PM
    • Big eBay Developments: Layoffs, Gobbles Up BillMeLater [view article]
      ebay continuously validates that it is a company without a conscience. Layoffs before the holidays when they still have a "healthy balance sheet" while making yet another multi multi purchase to (supposedly) add to its billions.

      This is a company thats unbelievable wealth was founded on the backs of hardworking everyday folks that it now has no problem knifing in the back.

      Personally I find ebay dispicable. May their stock continue to crash so that they are FORCED to draw on those "healthy balance sheets" to survive.

      All sellers who continue to sell on the ebay site are just paying for their own coffins!

      Oct 06 02:56 PM
    • EBay Wants No Less Than $75M for StumbleUpon [view article]
      To markdauvid:

      Now if that doesn't sound like an ebay company!       Oct 04 11:03 AM
    • eBay Down Further as Morgan Stanley Downgrades [view article]
      ebay stock dropping like a rock. Perception I think is the company is becoming tainted.

      Pity.       Oct 04 02:19 AM
    • eBay Down Further as Morgan Stanley Downgrades [view article]
      What impeccable timing, eh? Big Box items are always the first to go in a family's budget when recession hits, and NOW I believe we can all agree on that!

      How could J.D. have known that while he was stripping the ebay site of the essences (presence) that would have SAVED it during a recession and possible Depression, instead it is left with the very merchandise that is first choice to budget out when the discretionary income becomes lean.
      Oct 03 11:11 AM
    • eBay Looks Cheap Even with All The Negatives [view article]
      Here's the deal: John Donahoe doesn't have in his little toe the savvy and brilliance and vision Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos does. It just "ain't" there! Oct 02 03:44 PM
    • Live Search Cashback and eBay Bucks: Review of Services [view article]
      I believe this article and the ramifications of the ebay enterprise itself is reflected in its practice. ebay promises and states, but finagles inexcusably in all ways and all things in the unending leachery of its own greed which is the wealth built upon the backs of hardworking sellers.

      With ebay now the hue and cry is the bad buyer experience et al, but don't you believe it. If there is a way to wiggle out of parting with any cash, they'll do it.

      For a bad buyer experience, ebay should go gander in the mirror.

      This is a company uneclipsed with the lack of character and honor and integrity.       Sep 27 11:34 AM
    • 3 Theories on Why Fewer eBay Listings Are Showing Up on Google [view article]
      Wow! It's true. I did some random quick searches for items and ebay didn't even make the first cut in the top 10 on the first page! Sep 25 07:32 PM
    • eBay Looking to Sell StumbleUpon [view article]
      John Christopher:

      Thanks for that heads-up. I can't help but wonder now if Pierre and the remainder of the board might be quietly-behind-the-sce... be scouting for a replacement CEO for John Donahoe. It can't be an easy call but I bet a little more care will be taken this time around. I doubt they want to continue being the most despised company online.



      Sep 22 05:46 PM
    • So Much for That: EBay Looks To Sell StumbleUpon [view article]
      Yes. There are grammatical errors that someone with even a moderate education would not be making. Sep 20 09:31 PM
    • eBay Is a Losing Bid - Barron's [view article]
      To Wake Up Donahoe:

      Wow, talk about "soretails"! Can't take it, can they? By the way, hope you post this comment again re frozen account.       Sep 20 03:44 PM
    • So Much for That: EBay Looks To Sell StumbleUpon [view article]
      To J. Donahoe, or for whomever the pretense is:

      Read the article if you dare:

      seekingalpha.com/artic...

      ebay should have been on this list. Could have been even two years ago. Present management has pushed it not to mediocrity, but loathing and ruin. You should HOPE to regain to a position of mediocrity. What a note for economic history.

      I wouldn't want to be in those shoes.
      Sep 20 02:30 PM
    • So Much for That: EBay Looks To Sell StumbleUpon [view article]
      There have been 80 to 90 policy changes in 2008 alone. Impossible to state that seller confidence is at an "all time high". More like at an all time "why"? Sellers have either left in droves of their own accord, or been driven away at ebay's.

      And for what? Cheap imports or big box little box items you can buy at The Dollar Tree, Walmart, or Target, just for starters.

      Further more, some countries have not allowed the "policy changes" ennacted. Makes a statement. Too bad our own country has become so spineless. I love my country. Make no mistake.

      Only at ebay has thievery from buyers been nurtured and unaccounted, and I feel fairly certain that the law of averages as displayed over the centuries will kick in... is already kicking in.

      What goes around, comes around. Particularly in light of such a bunch of moronic "soretails". By the way, I did get the euphemism.       Sep 20 12:30 PM
    • Palin's Email: Publicity Yahoo Doesn't Need [view article]
      By the way, forcing a lock or breaking a window ito gain entry to facility is still illegal. Large or small, wrong should still be wrong. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should... or that it's okay.

      With this kind of mindset society continues to weaken.       Sep 19 01:15 PM
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