dlweld

What Can eBay Do to Close Its Amazon Gap?

LOL re the code words that bloggers use on eBay's forums to escape eBay's thought police - "the river", "the ranch" - what is Ebay's code? "The dump?"

I used to sell a lot on EBAY and made good money, but I no longer regard it as a viable venue. It's simply no longer a practical place for small sellers, sure, some deals work OK, but you just need one bad buyer to give a strong negative and your business is wrecked and you feel terrible - the selling experience is generally very bad at EBAY. If you're a "liquidation world" with special deals with ebay itself then it seems to work, but not for the great majority of sellers of interesting items - of course, flip side, not much of interest to buy there anymore either.