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    • Tue Sep 16th 18:45 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      How Would an eBay Layoff Impact Sellers?
      To ozgood:

      Wonderful site; very clean and uncluttered and attractive!

      Why would I want China junk or big box/little box items when I can go to the Dollar Tree or Target?

      I'd rather have what YOU have to offer by far!!! What utter idiots are running ebay now!

      Agree, the message needs to get out to network and published media.

      Hmmm.
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    • Tue Sep 16th 15:31 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Companies We Care About: Starbucks, Apple, Google, & Amazon
      Brilliant article with astute perceptions!
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    • Tue Sep 16th 14:59 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      How Would an eBay Layoff Impact Sellers?
      The link didn't paste. Here it is again. Worth pursuing.

      seekingalpha.com/artic...
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    • Tue Sep 16th 14:57 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      How Would an eBay Layoff Impact Sellers?
      I posted this on the previous article and thought I'd post it here. I do think it is all relevent:

      I think we continue to lose sight of the fact that ebay WANTS all the sellers gone! They want to be Amazon without a CLUE how to BE Amazon.

      There is an absolutely EXCELLENT recent article here on Seeking Alpha which includes Amazon. I highly recommend reading it.


      seekingalpha.com/artic...

      ebay coulda-been-shoulda-be... on this list but the last few years, and particularly and spectacularly this year, has self-exterminated. And as another poster brilliantly pointed out, the perception is affecting the next generation. Their perceptions are now becoming fixed. An extraordinarily bad and unwise move!
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    • Tue Sep 16th 14:19 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      eBay Is a Losing Bid - Barron's
      I think we continue to lose sight of the fact that ebay WANTS all the sellers gone! They want to be Amazon without a CLUE how to BE Amazon.

      There is an absolutely EXCELLENT recent article here on Seeking Alpha which includes Amazon. I highly recommend reading it.


      seekingalpha.com/artic...

      ebay coulda-been-shoulda-be... on this list but the last few years, and particularly and spectacularly this year, has self-exterminated. And as another poster brilliantly pointed out, the perception is affecting the next generation. Their perceptions are now becoming fixed. An extraordinarily bad and unwise move!

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    • Tue Sep 16th 14:06 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      How Would an eBay Layoff Impact Sellers?
      "What will eBay layoffs mean for sellers?"

      Absolutely nothing.
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    • Sun Sep 14th 18:22 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      eBay Is a Losing Bid - Barron's
      The point being, I forgot to add, that ebay has boobytrapped their own FUTURE in the next generation of buyers. That circle above that I mentioned all have or are going to have children and are very vocal in their refusal to have any part of ebay and Paypal again.

      Although, ebay won't be around. But it IS worth pointing to the ebay trolls that haunt the boards.
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    • Sun Sep 14th 18:16 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      eBay Is a Losing Bid - Barron's
      "As an aside, I was reading a blog and a woman stated her children are having to go without now because of feebays greed and now her children also HATE feebay. So, do we have a whole new generation that is going to hold feebay responsible as well? Interesting concept."

      This is an interesting "aside" and needs to be brought more into the light. Glad you did. I, too, have read such items here, there, and on. This is a much larger blite ebay has creative than I think they realize.

      From my own personal orbit of friends and family, the limited edition, mind you, is approximately 25 - 30 have ceased to use ebay altogether. There really ARE other places to shop now.

      eBay has become the most HATED and despised company I think I've ever heard! Even those still clinging to selling hate the company.

      That's pretty sad.
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    • Sun Sep 14th 12:07 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      eBay Is a Losing Bid - Barron's
      When a corporation starts laying off personnel it screams, "We're in serious trouble!"

      THAT was a no-brainer!
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    • Sat Sep 13th 00:48 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      eBay May Switch to New 'Item Page' Before Holidays
      eBay++++

      There is such a thing as integrity. And honor. And character. It is highly visible... when it is absent.

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    • Fri Sep 12th 15:30 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      eBay May Switch to New 'Item Page' Before Holidays
      Attention all sellers: GET OUT AND DIVERSIFY N*O*W !

      This is the "Titanium" time to do so! The Holidays!

      Diversify, diversify, diversify!

      Do not wait ANYMORE!

      Why continue to CLING?! You are not wanted at ebay! They do not care if you cannot pay your bills or feed your children! They do not care if you are handicapped, stay-at-home mom, or retired on a fixed income! All the "We're one big happy family!" was a joke!

      Didn't you get that?!
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    • Mon Sep 8th 23:21 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      eBay: Triple Whammy Weighs on Stock Price
      Tuffy
      Rickabaugh

      Along with ALL the one-time-wonder-poster... that troll these boards!
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    • Sat Sep 6th 19:10 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      eBay: Triple Whammy Weighs on Stock Price
      Agree with 10 year seller. Will never return to using ebay 100%!

      Now a completely untrustworthy company. Does not DESERVE further consideration.

      Must digest rest of article before further comment, but it's not looking too good!
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    • Sat Sep 6th 15:34 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      eBay Caps Shipping Rates: What Is the CEO Thinking?
      I'm tacking on one caviat to the above posting:

      In absolute truth, I don't think there will EVER be another eBay as we knew it again.

      And that includes eBay.
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    • Sat Sep 6th 14:49 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      eBay Caps Shipping Rates: What Is the CEO Thinking?
      Ahu

      Sellers sell to make money. Not live in abject slavery and codependency. With the expectation of more to look forward to!

      Has anyone been able to keep track countwise of the policy changes enacted since the beginning of 2008? What's it up to now? 80? 90? Does this smack of stabillity? Or wishywashiness?

      The other sites, whether you wish to acknowledge this truth or not, ARE growing. It took years to build ebay and make it what it was, and it will takes years and hard work to build other sites.

      I already am doing better elsewhere(s) than I did with ebay and for much less stress. Believe it!

      ebay also spent years stroking the "We're family" theme and then yanked out supports that were bogus to begin with. Emotionalize? Yeah, family fractures are the WORST kind. The response now should showcase the level of pain inflicted. Refusing to perceive this is idiocy. Of course it's emotionalized!!! Of course it's personal!!! Duh!!!

      Finally, and last but certainly not least, ebay opened a Pandora's Box they can NEVER hope to close. Thanks to the likes of Youtube and Myspace, both of which far outrank ebay in site traffic, "networking" is now a piece of cake. A slam dunk. And with GoogleAdwords, opening your own site is nothing anymore. Most of the time I Google what I'm searching for now to see what crops up. And procede from there. You'd be surprised what crops up. The blinkers are now well and truly off. And no, ebay is seldom at the top of THAT list anymore. PLUS, Ecrater and other sites now employ GoogleAdwords site-wide. I could go on and on, but hey, I'm busy selling... elsewhere!

      You see, let me make it a little bit plainer. I used to automatically "reach for ebay". first. Never, like most other folks I might ad, other sites.

      Reflex reaction.

      Not anymore.

      That Pandora's Box I mentioned earlier?

      Yeah.
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