Ebay user 1

How to Fix eBay

The whole problem with "Auctions" started the day they implemented the "Best match" search as the default search versus the old way that was "Ending Soonest"

This was implemented to court the "Diamond" sellers, they do not auction items and their listings are long term, thus they would not have come up to the top of the catagory list when the default search was "Ending Soonest" ... But when in "Best Match" mode and with all the metrics used, Free Shipping, Items Sold and just the basic preferred status they get from Ebay puts the "Diamond" sellers up to the top of the catagories.

The author doesnt realize that Ebay did have the "Auctions" and the "Buy it Nows" or "Fixed Price" as they call it now, totally integrated the day before they started this "Best Match" search system, this was about a year ago and before.

It worked like this:
All search was defaulted to "Ending Soonest" ... but along the top of the page there were HUGE YELLOW tabs that all you had to do was click that would just show you "FIXED PRICE" items only, that worked well for years, these tabs were so big not a person in the world could miss them, now they still have a way to switch to "Ending Soonest" on the page but its really small and on a pull down, hidden almost.

This was the "Auction Killer" ... you cannot auction item and have them ending in 20 minutes and them being on page 3 ... just not gonna work, Auctions do move up the list as they come close to ending (sometimes)but it all depends on how big of a seller you are, if you dont sell much then you are completely screwed, if you are a bigger seller then you are just regular screwed if you auction with this "Best Match" versus "Ending Soonest" search.

These changes were made for only one reason and one reason only, to get the "Diamond Sellers" to come on board with Ebay, I mean this is common sense, otherwise this would have never been changed, it just would not make any sense, Diamond Sellers had to have a perk to bother listing on Ebay, Donahoe made such a huge mistake by doing this ... his thinking was, lets get huge sellers to bolster the numbers so Ebay can keep a good average of items on Ebay all the time, instead of the ups and downs, this should have kept stock prices in check, I repeat should have.

But he did not realize what kind of site he was actually running, he thought he worked at Amazon instead of the Worlds Largest Flea Market, thus bring in only Diamond Sellers and have them on top of all the smaller sellers thus giving the majority of the best placement on Ebay for them and putting all the smaller sellers lower in the catagory list, well this pissed off the smaller sellers and they just stopped listing or slowed because their listing were getting no views because of the bad placement on the catagory listings.

Now what do we have? Well we have thousands of the same items that are placed high in all catagories that you can buy on any site of the internet and all the one off items from smaller sellers and "All Auctions" are buried, when you are a small seller you also have to pay the full price on FEE's ... Diamond Sellers pay no listing fee's ... Thus can flood Ebay with whatever and at whatever price with no penalty.

See I Remember when Ebay was courting the Chinese sellers years ago, they gave them free listing fee's as well, they flooded the entire site with FAKE NIKES, I mean it was crazy the amount of fake Nikes Ebay had on ... you would have to go through pages and pages just to find a seller that was from the United States and then they were few and far between and no they werent only selling Fake Nikes, they were selling Fakes of all kinds, Ebay finally had to get rid of the Chinese Sellers, it drove Ebays fraud to a new high, then they finally realized ok that was a bad move, Meg Whitmans move by the way, these policies have been handed down to John Donahoe as you can see.

Now we have Dimaond Sellers, which are on par with the failed Chinese idea they used years ago, just with different metrics ... Donahoe thought this will be a great idea, but now he is swimming in problems ... the smaller sellers actually paid to list on Ebay, Diamond Sellers do not ... Diamond Sellers have their own websites which when you buy and item from them on Ebay they give you coupons to go to their own websites, Smaller Sellers kept people on Ebay because they didnt have their own websites.

Smaller sellers only have unique items and they also buy here, Diamond sellers dont buy from Ebay, at least not anywhere close to the percentage that a small seller would, smaller sellers pay the highest fee's, buy the most off Ebay once they sell their wares, in some cases small sellers would buy 100% of the money they made on Ebay, example sell 10 $10.00 items and then get something they want for $100.00 ... this keep the Ebay economy running like a small planet, now the planet that was created buy the small seller is in depression in the same way the World is in its own small way, think about it.

Donahoe was totally spoofed by these huge online sellers, now he has no idea what he's going to do, you think this moron will swallow his pride and say ooops I messed up??? lol NO WAY IN HELL ... We small sellers are noise and he would never bow to us, he would much rather take his millions and leave than ever ever saying he made a mistake.