Ebay seems to be expanding and changing it services that seem to have no rhyme or reason behind it all but a desperate attempt by bad management to still grow their dwindling returns. Ebay is loosing its focus on its core business and that is a very bad sign. Ebay as a consumer brand will never be taken serious. When you think ebay you think flea market they are desperate to change that but alas that view would be impossible to turn around. So what they do , they purchases losers like skype,Milo and GSi aka pepperjam affiliate network in a bid to stay relevant. The purchase of GSI is a horrible mistake with the panda update that is going to strike a devastating blow in the long run for affiliate marketers who many ran horrible sites by abusing google to rank high. Now that Google has caught on and taken drastic measures which we will see further deteriorate returns on low quality affiliate sites how smart is it even to buy GSI ?

I do not even understand what is the point of local search in the Ebay platform , who cares if the item is local other than it is domestic. I do not think the average consumer gives a damn that the shoes they plan on buying is in arkansas or New York especially since Amazon ( who unlike Ebay quality sites and businesses) and their network of sites including Zappos, Shopbop, Mytheresa offer free overnight delivery making local buying obsolete already.

Ebay does not know what it wants to become their website is a mess they are trying to offer the same shopping experience to their buyers as Amazon and are forcing their buyers to follow their new rules ,but ebay buyers are not willing to spend the same amount on products as they on Amazon sites and their sellers margins keep shrinking and are almost non existance. So why stick to Ebay and sell at all while you can just sell on Amazon, http://ebid.net or your own site and make much larger margins ? There really is no point of selling if you are a large company. If you are smaller seller then you are not going to make much money and struggle following all of ebays rules that change every couple of months. only ones who will stay are medium size businesses who can afford to stay on but eventually more and more buyers will leave ebay and those sellers too will go away . This is not going to happen overnight but do not expect Ebay to be around in 10 years as a leader of online sales.

At the very best this is a double edge sword. For every good part of it, there is just as much or more bad parts. Ive been buying on Ebay since the late 90s. Im not at all convinced that this is a good idea! I know whats down the street in the brick and mortar buildings. Ebay needs to stick with its niche.

Ebay is expanding but, you’re only telling half of the story. Ebay asserts its expansion through acquisition and price increases to their advertisers and sellers.

It’s true, 50 listings free auction-style every month but, final fees are paid at closing which now has “included” shipping. What they take away in cost-wise in the beginning of the listings, they take back 1.5 times in the back.

Also, consider the fact that those who do more than 50 listings a month, which at 5 per day, 6 days a week, comes out to 1.5 weeks free in the beginning and then goes to regular price after that but, still charges the final price to “include shipping”! Sounds like a price increase to me! Also fixed price listings will increase. Ebay has already stated this to all sellers.

The only way ebay increases revenue is by price increases. It’s more a question of whether or not your willing to use their services.

You would be better off putting a “few” listings to generate traffic and spend more time opening your own site and spend the wasted “fees” using SEO methods.

Well thats good news for people like me who when finding an item on ebay that sais “delivery in 5 working days” makes you say ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH I WANT IT NOWWWWWWW!

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