jay dee

eBay Sentiment: In Neutral Ahead of Earnings

Patricia,
Don't you know ebay has moved on ; they don't need us - we are just noisy old dinosaurs trying to sell neat,unique stuff the way we used to .
Pay pal is where it's at for ebay now - basically legal graft on any kind of transaction. Very easy to make money on !

EBay Reporting Sales Gains

Yep all you ebay investors go on believing the propaganda you're being fed.
The ebay sellers, off who's backs you are trying to cash in on, know different :
I used to list 50 to 70 fixed price items on a monthly basis, and sold about 10% of them, I haven't listed or sold in over a year and I know I'm not the only one that has packed in ebay - where are these increases coming from ???
Productive asset : the Paypal mandatory extortion payment arm !!

eBay: Mapping Where It Went Wrong

I don't mean completing the transaction is cumbersome - it's accessing your Pay Pal money that is cumbersome and INSECURE ! as ebay can claw back money from your Pay Pal account on any whim (buyer didn't like the colour of your item yada yada) !!

Is there a bricks and mortar Pay Pal bank ?
How do you access your pay pal money ?? You transfer it to a bank account ?
Beyond the center of the universe - the USA , not many banks offer US $ accounts.

Anybody that doesn't like the financial community usury is stuck in the stone age - yeah right !

I don't buy dung on ebay - I like to see in person what it is I'm buying, so have no use for Pay Pal.
I have (secure) credit cards for my non-cash transactions


On Sep 09 04:30 PM eBay +++ wrote:

> jay dee, I don't get what you mean by "imaginary funds in a fictitious
> account". Also, Paypal cumbersome? How so? It's the fastest
> easiest way to pay on-line. Just make your purchase, log into
> Paypal and your done. No entering a CC# or Billing and Shipping
> Addresses, it's all done automatically. How is that cumbersome?
>
> Don't get stuck in the Stone Age while time passes you by....

eBay: Mapping Where It Went Wrong

Well delcamper a real nice shot at the little guys who made ebay .
To you all it's about is growing the enterprise named ebay.
Duh, it's pretty obvious that Pay Pal is being groomed to be the major income producer for ebay - they have killed the original ebay concept.
Personally I loath Pay pAL - it's just another hand reaching into my pocket - simple usury.
Pay Pal is simply Ebay extortion to increase their income - all the balony about making things safer, etc etc is a load of crap.
I don't live in the USA so Pay Pal is quite cumbersome to use ; imaginary funds in a fictitious account.
I would sell for less than take pay pal - at least with MO's I know the transaction has been completed and I have cash in my pocket !

eBay: Mapping Where It Went Wrong

Sounds like "we" (all you financial guru's) have forgotten what ebay used to be about.
It sounds like ebay is just another company to invest in, all you guys care about is whether it can make money (for you).
Sounds like what ebay was, has been forgotten / is a thing of the past.
Pity because ebay is synonymous with being a venue for people to buy and sell unique items online - a world wide flea market.
All the people who participated in that activity (and were instrumental) in creating that giant the world knows as ebay have been simply discarded and thrown away as no longer useful to ebay the money making machine.
Can the originators of ebay please step forth - the time is ripe, the opportunity is here - all the faithful are just praying for an alternate to materialize.

eBay Dangles a Carrot to Pacify Its Sellers

Here's another carrot; ebay is so generously "offering" it's customers (the sellers) a limited time offer - for only 25 cents more you can include up to 12 pictures in your ad !!
Gee I bet that's really costing ebay some money, seeing most people don't usually put more than one or two pictures in !
Another phony POS "benefit" ebay is insulting it's sellers intelligence with - trying to suck people into spending more money listing their items.
Me I'm going to hold out for the flower border around ads.
I figure they will be offering that one soon because we all know people will buy more junk (they don't need) if there are flower borders around ads.
Ebay just go back to the basics - the way things were before the Big Hoe took over !

GM: Are eBay and a $4,000 Car Enough to Turn Things Around?

Justin you should shop for a wife online ; pick one that gets increasingly good reviews !!

Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service

ebay+++,
Gee doesn't take much for ebay to suck you into their propaganda.

Printing off a bar code label doesn't make one iota of difference to me - it's all the time I spend prior - packing ad nauseum.
And ebay has the nerve to tell us to "eat" the shipping on top of all the time that was already spent, in just getting ready to ship.

How about the ebay condition that the seller is responsible for the item untill the buyer receives it, even though the buyer didn't elect to go for the insurance that is offered.
I am not Sears - I can not absorb non-delivery scams that Pay Pal makes it so easy for buyers to pull on the sellers.
I rather not sell than to run the risk of having someone pull that one.

Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service

Hey ebay +++ !
What nice changes did ebay make to selling ??
I haven't heard what they are / anything that is going to bring me back.

I just wish they haven't brainwashed the buyers that "transacting off ebay is unsafe and against ebay policy" - because I sure would love to entertain more offers off ebay and totally avoid the Pay Pal extortion deal along with the doubled ebay fees.

eBay Search: There's a New Sheriff in Town

palmer jr - You've got that right re all the fee's - I recently figured out that up untill a year or so ago I was paying approximately 4% on my antique auto parts sales.
Now with the illegal Pay Pal "shakedown racket" and increased final value fee's I would be paying almost 14% !!
Then there are the hours I spend packing heavy but delicate carburators, manifolds etc, and they have the gall to tell us to offer free shipping - unbelievable. Trying to make themselves (ebay) look good off of sellers "backs" !!

Amazon and eBay in Satisfaction Survey

JHT, yep ebay is good for some of you buyers, certainly not the saps (ebay sellers) who get the "fun" of giving stuff away and paying up the whazoo for that "opportunity" that ebay provides them with.
You ain't going to get to put it up my butt like ebay would like you to believe - just so ebay can shylock their cut out of me also.

Amazon and eBay in Satisfaction Survey

I sure agree with rrtxmd : Yes the endless frigging around on ebay's part the last few years has so disenabled ebay as an online selling medium that you just don't want to bother anymore.

The mandatory Pay pal extortion pretty well finished it off for me.

Right now ebay Canada has a monthly special : offering 5 free auction listings every 30 days - I CAN'T BE BOTHERED !!

When are these ebay lackeys (financial analysts) going to get it through their heads that EBAY IS AND HAS TOTALLY F'D UP and that the economy excuse blah blah is just unbelievably convenient for Teflon Donahoe to get himself off the hook for creating this situation.


On Jun 24 01:33 PM rrtzmd wrote:

> ..."the auction platform that is rapidly losing interest with the
> consumer."...I don't agree...what consumers are tiring off is Ebay's
> version of auctions...Ebay has mucked and muddled with the auction
> process so much -- tacking on more fees, adding more rules, making
> more demands...average individuals simply don't find it worth the
> effort to offer things at auction...those that stick with Ebay are
> mostly professional "auctioners" -- people doing it full-time listing
> mountains of junk and trying to extract retail prices...REAL auction
> consumers aren't interested in that...they enjoy the search for "treasure"
> as well as the opportunity to save significant amounts of money...Ebay
> isn't "fun" anymore...

A Big Change for eBay Sellers: Variation Style Listings

What a bunch of mumbo jumbo.
You forgot to ad how "BOLD", stars and flowers around the border of ads will make people buy more (junk).

eBay: Donahoe May Kill the Kijiji Brand

Donaho's latest offering should be Hari Kari ! LOL !

Is eBay's Core Business Turning Around?

Sandeep just in name sounds like a typical ebay Director - I see those smiling faces everytime they roll out another insulting "change for the better" edict.
Does Sandeep sell on ebay and jump through all their hoops ?!

Dramatically increasing penetration by offering WHAT incentives for free shipping ?? Telling sellers to "build" the cost into the price - how do you do that ? Raise the price or does ebay subsidize - yeah right - the only increased penetration Sandeep baby is up the sellers butts !
Where does Sandeep get his information on how happy the buyers and sellers are ? from his other job at the ebay call centre ?

I recently got bored and curious after a 9 month lay off from Ebay fun !
Figured I'd spend 10 bucks and test the North Atlantic waters. Ran a bunch of fixed price ads for the new and improved 30 listing day period at the 35 cent bargain listing fee rate which is 4 to 7 X my usual listing cost. WHAT A WASTE OF TIME !!
I got the fun of wasting my time checking for bids and offers for 4 weeks instead of the usual one week.
So what happened : as usual every one waits to the last day with their insulting low ball offers.
Not one iota of difference as to the number or value of sales !

Hell I won't do that again - I will wait for the usual monthly 5 or 10 cent listing day throw my ads in and only waste 7 days having ebay fun !.
You see this is how ebay pools the wool over (anal-ists eyes ) tells you and the sellers "see how we're improving the seller experience": as they jack up listing and commission fees but say look : "we're giving you longer listing periods" which doesn't cost them anything and doesn't do a damn thing as far as sales go.