Mercenary_Roadie wrote:Looks like all bidder identities will be anonymous starting this week some time.
Xaxaxe wrote:You know trouble is coming when the eBay Weasel Of The Day uses a six-paragraph intro. before finally getting to the point.The double-speak is just amazing, as is the obvious solution: eliminate the second-chance concept altogether.That announcement pretty much does it for me. I'll use the next few months to (slowly) off-load some remaining lots, then pull the plug after 10 years of selling on eBay. I'll probably leave my account open for the occasional purchase, but that will be about it.March 3, 2008: eBay officially jumps the shark.
Mercenary_Roadie wrote:Ebay just posted this online this morning.Looks like all bidder identities will be anonymous starting this week some time.
Reindeergamez wrote:Just thought I'd drop a post here just to answer a few questions I've recieved via email about my dwinding inventory. I am ending my selling venture on ebay, I've been selling RPG books on ebay pretty heavily for around 5 years now, casually before that. The fees/stupid policies are weighing heavily on my decision to quit selling, though it's not the only reason. I am re-entering the real world job market after having stayed home with my daughter for her first 5 years. Honestly I feel I am ready not to be home full time anyhow, but these crazy changes (plus some rather insane buyers lately) sped things along. I've been cutting back on my purchasing over the last 3 months already, and am mostly partialling out my inventory (which includes around 300 items still in my store and another few hundred unlisted items that I am not keeping in my own collection) into small lots and selling them slowly on ebay. I plan to keep the ebay store open probably another 2 weeks or so then I will pull it down and just sell via auction till it's all gone. I appriciate all the great buyers I've had over the last few years, I consider this to have been a great success, and if I didn't feel the pull to work outside the home again I'm sure I could muddle through these changes again with ebay. Best Wishes!
megnelwil wrote:Looks like we were all being optimistic when concluding the small seller is being shafted. We're being wiped out to make room for the big boys. Wonder how all those smug sellers who made hay (which was their right to do) feel about things now? Their sun isn't going to be shining much longer, in fact they'll be lucky if their listings see the light of day.So what do we have? At a guess, a combination of two things. eBay inadvertently letting the cat out on future plans whilst taking advantage of a 'test' that conveniently padded out its listing count. Oh, and they were hacked again apparently.It's a damn shame.
Shopping.com, an eBay company
Deadlord39 wrote:Are the new fees in effect now?
megnelwil wrote:Hi BC, yeah I picked that up straight away. And shopping.com runs a CPC model and that's all about high visibility and ranking. Plus there are at least eight more major shopping channels that have been identified as part of this 'test'. Big time CPC customers aren't going to settle for page 2 or 3 of a search result. Traditional eBay sellers, no matter what size, are going to be getting a whole lot more competition soon and there's no way the playing field is going to be level. Perhaps I'm just being paranoid but it appears eBay as we knew it is in its final days. The new eBay will be just like any other spammy, advert infested, automated money making, zero support, turn and burn operation. How to create pure shit from gold. Whichever way they cut it though, that test padded their listings and I'm wondering what side of the law they stand on as a result.
