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12 commentsMonday, March 3, 2008

eBay Sees Slow Down In '08

Slower growth in top markets

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Sick of this greed machine that is ebay

Ebay is over...they treat sellers like crap...they pushed all the digital sellers out with no notice and then allowed buyers to manipulate sellers by taking away negative feedback rights that sellers had before. Its a disgusting company and they deserve everything headed their way.

Ebay sales

Our Ebay sales are down, prices are down and bid numbers are down. Our Ebay bill has increased by 30% month on month, the Feedback issue means that buyers can blackmail sellers and know sellers will do everything to keep the buyers from leaving negative.

I disagree with the feedback system, its the sellers who pay the ebay fees, buyers just send money via Paypal so EBay dont make cash directly through Ebay from buyers.

may 1st 2008 World eBay Strike

 I urge all buyers and sellers on eBay around the world to take a stand against the greed that has set in to eBay' headquarters.

May 1st 2008 is the next worldwide eBay Strike day, join in and let eBay know now before it's too late. In 5 years people will be talking about the site that was "eBay".

eBay! What's eBay?

Make some NOISE!

www.boycott-ebay.net

may 1st 2008 World eBay Strike

 I urge all buyers and sellers on eBay around the world to take a stand against the greed that has set in to eBay' headquarters.

May 1st 2008 is the next worldwide eBay Strike day, join in and let eBay know now before it's too late. In 5 years people will be talking about the site that was "eBay".

eBay! What's eBay?

Make some NOISE!

www.boycott-ebay.net

eBay feedback on iRipoff.com

I noticed a site, http://www.iripoff.com that is now allowing people to leave ebay feedback on their site anonomously. eBay has opened up to allow everyone posting on the internet and not on their site. Although I am all for iRipoff.com and the other sites out there, I can't say that I am for eBays new feedback system.

No One is Buying anymore

Besides having a two week problem with my account which eBays Trust dept. and live help (contacted 7 times) couldn't help with I finally figured out how to fix my account.

The last time I listed I probably had around $300.00 dollars worth of 20 items and only made $80   No one can afford to buy or collect anymore because of food prices and especially gas prices.  And it's not going to get better.  Not eBays fault but I can't afford to waste money on listing fees for unbought items.

Good luck in 08 everyone because we're going to need it!

I've seen a slow down in

I've seen a slow down in sales too. I guess it is the economy.

And the changes eBay is implementing ... loads of changes to feedback, prices, My eBay, you name it ... seem to be injurous to sellers.

They are even forcing some sellers to use the new My eBay beta in a test pilot.

I don't know. My business can't afford a test shoved down my throat.

I don't know what the hell eBay is doing anymore.

 

Boycott..

I see the self-destruction of ebay...

They lost my business when they refused to bend on the new rulings, they refused to "listen" to the base of their market, the Seller...

They tried to implement a huge fee increase by introducing it to the Seller as a decrease... Did they not think that we would read the fine print???

Not a good move... It caused anger and

They have decided that the buyer, "my customer",  belongs to them..  They've made it so that feedback is the deciding factor on my ending selling fees...

In doing that, they have made it so that I can not comment when a buyer doesn't pay in a timely manner, or when they decide "after" the sale that they don't like to pay shipping charges, which gives them a lever to hold over my head, such as: "you take off the shipping charges or I will leave you a negative comment", meaning higher fees...  It is not the proper way to resolve a feedback system...  It sets the Seller up for failure, which of course, puts money in ebays pocket...

The beauty of the new rules at ebay is that it has caused me to look online for other avenues of selling...  There is a wealth of awesome sites who don't gouge the seller and have protective measures for both the buyer AND the seller...

I am free to choose my payment methods which includes the google checkout and other payments rather than just using ebay's own paypal system which is owned by them...

I found out that the grass is indeed GREENER on the other side...

And I was buying anything I could on ebay, I would check there before purchasing locally, in support of the ebay community...  That's about 500.00 a month going to another venue now...

I chose onlineauction.com as my new selling home...

It's reasonable in price and a much more friendly site to deal with...

so, I will continue to BOYCOTT EBAY VICTORIOUSLY!!

Boycott..

I see the self-destruction of ebay...

They lost my business when they refused to bend on the new rulings, they refused to "listen" to the base of their market, the Seller...

They tried to implement a huge fee increase by introducing it to the Seller as a decrease... Did they not think that we would read the fine print???

Not a good move... It caused anger and

They have decided that the buyer, "my customer",  belongs to them..  They've made it so that feedback is the deciding factor on my ending selling fees...

In doing that, they have made it so that I can not comment when a buyer doesn't pay in a timely manner, or when they decide "after" the sale that they don't like to pay shipping charges, which gives them a lever to hold over my head, such as: "you take off the shipping charges or I will leave you a negative comment", meaning higher fees...  It is not the proper way to resolve a feedback system...  It sets the Seller up for failure, which of course, puts money in ebays pocket...

The beauty of the new rules at ebay is that it has caused me to look online for other avenues of selling...  There is a wealth of awesome sites who don't gouge the seller and have protective measures for both the buyer AND the seller...

I am free to choose my payment methods which includes the google checkout and other payments rather than just using ebay's own paypal system which is owned by them...

I found out that the grass is indeed GREENER on the other side...

And I was buying anything I could on ebay, I would check there before purchasing locally, in support of the ebay community...  That's about 500.00 a month going to another venue now...

I chose onlineauction.com as my new selling home...

It's reasonable in price and a much more friendly site to deal with...

so, I will continue to BOYCOTT EBAY VICTORIOUSLY!!

Stupidity

Seeing that almost all the seller are BUYERS..EBay has doomed themselves. They chase away the sellers with allthe ridiculous changes and then say it will be hard to bring back former buyers? What are they smoking?

Well Deserved.

And there was some journalist on this site saying that the impact of the boycott was nothing.  Now, promote another boycott in 15 days and you'll see the giant begging for your forgiveness. 

Subliminal to Get over ebay...

Everyone, including myself, is leaving ebay. High prices, bad service and lack of customer service is the reason im leaving.

The SubliminalMp3s.com website, a website that gives away free subliminal programs on everything under the sun, stated in a press release a day or so ago that they were developing two subliminal programs titled:Getting Over eBay and Life without ebay

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