Ebay user 1

Will eBay Spin Off PayPal and Skype?

Before the end of last year is when all the rates started going sky high at Ebay and well before that, every year their was a huge increase in listing prices thus people thinking i cannot afford to list their anymore, it was all Ebays' doing that this happened, its called greed, people selling used items cannot afford that, check Craigs List its alive and well thats where all the people went to rid themselves of used items and basically all kind of other stuff, people just got sick of geting stabbed on listing fee's and paypal fee's it just wasnt worth all the trouble anymore, when you get rid of all those people that were selling then you also rid yourself of the buyers, because on Ebay the people trying to make small change were also buying items, the thing thats not understood on Ebay that well is people are creatures of habit, if they are now selling on other venues thats where they will buy, thus goes the traffic.

Ebay charging these sky high rates ruined them, they are just a listing engine, they own nothing they sell nothing, why would they think they are even entitled to a 15% to 20% gross of others merchandice and that would succeed??? ... can you even think how much a % of gross that is?? On a flea market style item? ... cripes that in some cases could be 100% of the profit.

If Ebay closed tomorrow PayPal would be worthless as well, dont you remember that Ebay didnt always own PayPal, they hated PayPal and all the people that now use Paypal was from people that used Ebay in the 90's ... If someone else opened a site like Ebay and had their own PayPal type of processor it would end up being used in the same way and people would then migrate to that, the people that have run Ebay have their heads in the clouds and every last one of them should be FIRED!