exPowerSeller

Earnings Preview: eBay

The irony of the above comment and eBay's current strategy, is that eBay's current strategy trends strongly toward commodity/new-item sellers and away from one-of-a-kind/used sellers, the former or which are far more likely to be fraudulent/rip-off item sellers.

Electronics, and new "name-brand" items are by FAR the worst / most-bad-experience prone (for the buyer) items on eBay, but management is driving away so many of the other kinds of sellers, that these bad apples are becoming dominant --- which is supposedly exactly the opposite of what eBay professes to want, in terms or "improving the buyer experience."

John Donahoe has quite likely never bought or sold a single item on the marketplace he commands.... and it shows.